Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.
Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.
The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.
Micky Ward and his crack-addict brother in Lowell; Christian Bale's Oscar.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
Javier Bardem as the quadriplegic who fought for thirty years for the right to die.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
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.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.
Spielberg's own childhood, and the moment a camera becomes a way to see.
Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane, in 1930s studio black and white.
The aeronautical engineer who designed the Zero, and what his beautiful machines became.
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