Peter Sellers stars as Chance, a simple-minded gardener whose only contact with the outside world is through television. When his millionaire employer dies, Chance is set adrift on the streets of Washington D.C. where he soon becomes identified as “Chauncey Gardner,” whose simple adages are interpreted as profound insights. Hal Ashby (“Harold and Maude”) directed this provocative satire with an understatement to match the subtlety and precision of Sellers’ Academy Award-nominated performance. Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas (Oscar winner for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), also star in the film. “Being There” was added to the National Film Registry in 2015.  “The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn” (1956), an outrageous 30 minute British comedy short starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, both veterans of “The Goon Show,” will precede the feature. Free, at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, VA.