A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.
A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.
Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.
Three generations of a Taipei family, told over one year and three hours.
Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.
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.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."
Four days of an alcoholic writer, the first Hollywood film to take addiction seriously.
The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.
The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.
Cameron turns Scott's horror into a war film: Ripley, the marines and the queen.
A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.
Capra's screwball comedy about a family that refuses to be respectable.
Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.
An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.
A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.
Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.
The perfect adventure film, boulder and all.
Kubrick's racetrack heist told out of order; the film that got him noticed.
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.
Five notes, a mountain of mashed potato, and first contact.
A boy hides an alien in his bedroom closet in suburban California.
The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.
Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.
King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.
The best of the saga: Hoth, Dagobah, and the line everyone misquotes.
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