The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.
German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.
The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.
A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.
Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".
A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.
Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.
Four days of an alcoholic writer, the first Hollywood film to take addiction seriously.
Three generations of a Taipei family, told over one year and three hours.
The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.
Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.
Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.
Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane, in 1930s studio black and white.
Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong fall in love by never saying so.
Five notes, a mountain of mashed potato, and first contact.
Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.
The perfect adventure film, boulder and all.
A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.
King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.
Heart of Darkness up the Nung River, with helicopters and Wagner.
A bureaucrat with cancer decides to build one playground before he dies.
A rookie detective loses his pistol in postwar Tokyo and hunts it through the heat.
Kubrick's racetrack heist told out of order; the film that got him noticed.
A boy hides an alien in his bedroom closet in suburban California.
The best of the saga: Hoth, Dagobah, and the line everyone misquotes.
The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.
The two bickering peasants George Lucas turned into R2-D2 and C-3PO.
The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.
A young doctor learns humility in a nineteenth-century clinic for the poor.
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.
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