The last human fleet flees the Cylons; the sci-fi series that was really about the war on terror.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
Al Swearengen and the founding of a lawless gold town, in Shakespearean profanity.
A family funeral home in Los Angeles; the finale is the one everyone cites.
Dunder Mifflin, Scranton; nine seasons of Michael Scott, Jim and Pam.
David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.
Don Draper and a Madison Avenue ad agency through the 1960s; seven seasons of slow change.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
Vampire flatmates in Wellington argue about the dishes; Waititi and Clement's mockumentary.
A girl claims the chiefdom her grandfather refuses her; Keisha Castle-Hughes at 13.
A Maori family under a violent father in South Auckland; the film that shook New Zealand.
A mute Scottish woman, her piano and a Maori-tattooed settler on a New Zealand beach; Campion's Palme d'Or.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
A teenager taken in by his criminal family in Melbourne; Jacki Weaver's grandmother.
A family fights the airport for their house next to the runway; "tell him he's dreamin'".
Toni Collette leaves Porpoise Spit with ABBA; Australia's bittersweet comedy.
Two English children lost in the outback are saved by an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout; Roeg.
Dakar boys lost at sea return to possess the girls they left; Mati Diop's ghost story.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
A Coca-Cola bottle falls into the Kalahari; the Botswana comedy that toured the world.
Jihadists ban music and football in Timbuktu; a match played without a ball.
A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.
A Senegalese woman as a maid on the Riviera; the first feature by a sub-Saharan director.
A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.
A bourgeois writer stays in Havana after the revolution and watches through a telescope.
A gay artist and a young communist in 1979 Havana; Cuba's first Oscar-nominated film.
A ghost in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War; del Toro's companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
A Mexican girl cooks her emotions into the food; magical realism from the kitchen.
An Amazonian shaman guides two explorers forty years apart, in black and white.
A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.
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