Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".
Dickens as a musical: workhouse, pickpockets and "Consider Yourself".
A bawdy Georgian romp with the most famous eating scene in cinema.
A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.
Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.
Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.
Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.
The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.
Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.
The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.
An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.
A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.
Four days of an alcoholic writer, the first Hollywood film to take addiction seriously.
A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.
Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."
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