Read all Lord of the Rings: essential books
Journey through Middle-earth's epic saga. One book at a time, forge your own legend.
Watch the NYT's 100 best movies of the 21st century
The New York Times poll of 500 directors and actors, June 2025; Parasite first, Mulholland Drive second. All 100, in rank order.
Watch all Best Picture Oscar winners (1951–1999)
Half a century of Best Picture winners, An American in Paris (1951) to American Beauty (1999).
Watch all Best International Feature Oscar winners (1956–1999)
The competitive foreign-language award from its first year: La Strada (1956) to All About My Mother (1999).
Watch all Best Picture Oscar winners (until 1950)
Every Academy Award for Best Picture from the first ceremony to mid-century: Wings (1927) to All About Eve (1950).
Watch all Stanley Kubrick movies
Embark on a cinematic odyssey through Kubrick's genius—masterpieces of sci-fi, horror, and drama await your discovery.
Play every Spiel des Jahres winner (1979-1999)
The German game of the year from the first award to the end of the century, Hare and Tortoise to Tikal.
Finish all the Heroes of Might and Magic games
Seven turn-based fantasy campaigns, from the 1995 original through New World Computing to Ubisoft.
Finish the essential Tony Hawk games
Pro Skater 1 to 4, Underground and the 2020 remake, with the soundtracks they shipped with.
Read Frank Herbert's Dune novels
The six novels Frank Herbert wrote himself, Dune in 1965 to Chapterhouse in 1985.
Read the essential Sherlock Holmes
The three novels everyone starts with, plus the first collection of Strand stories.
Read all the Space Odyssey novels
Clarke's four-book sequence, 2001 to 3001; each one restarts from the film before it rather than the novel.
Finish all the Grand Theft Auto games (2D era)
The top-down originals, before the series became a 3D city: GTA, its two London packs and GTA 2.
Play all three RollerCoaster Tycoon games
Chris Sawyer's two isometric parks and the 3D sequel you can ride from the front seat.
Finish the Lotus trilogy
Magnetic Fields on the Amiga: two Esprits on a split screen, then a track generator to close it out.
Watch the Apu trilogy
Satyajit Ray's three films following one Bengali boy from a village to Calcutta.
Watch the Dollars trilogy
Leone and Eastwood's three spaghetti westerns, ending on the graveyard standoff.
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