Classic Movies Bucket List

The original space opera that started it all (1977).

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.

Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).

Watch Stanley Kubrick's 1975 period drama Barry Lyndon, known for its visual beauty and historical accuracy.

Apu marries a stranger when her groom fails to arrive, and the trilogy closes on his son.

Apu leaves the village for school in Benares and then Calcutta, while his mother waits.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy on a five-year mission across three seasons from 1966; "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Balance of Terror".

Taylor, the forbidden zone and the last shot on the beach.

Two bounty hunters chase the same man, and a musical pocket watch times the duel.

A Vietnam veteran hunted through Washington woods; the film before the sequels.

Four people on a windswept island, with the actors stepping out to explain themselves.

Two sisters and a boy in a hotel in a country at war, speaking a language none of them knows.

A honeymooning bride runs off after the star of a photo-comic; Fellini's first solo feature.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.

A pastor who no longer believes takes a service for nine people.

Two musicians on an island are overtaken by a civil war they had ignored.

Five young men idle away their twenties in a seaside town; the film Scorsese keeps remaking.

A country weekend of couples rearranging themselves; the comedy that made Bergman famous.

Small-time swindlers dress as priests to rob peasants, and one of them tires of it.

Two teenagers run away to the Stockholm archipelago for a summer that ends.

Five students, a cabin and the Book of the Dead; Raimi shot it for $350,000 in 1981.

A circus owner and his mistress humiliated in a small town; Bergman's breakthrough in style.

A wife's visions in Fellini's first colour film, made for Giulietta Masina.

Three days of peace and music in 1969, in split screen; Scorsese edited.

Carl Sagan's thirteen-part tour of the universe from 1980; "billions and billions".

A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.