Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.
The Algerian uprising filmed like a newsreel; the Pentagon screened it in 2003.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
Bertolucci and Storaro's fascist Italy in tilted frames and autumn light.
A noble family sold into slavery in medieval Japan; the saddest film Mizoguchi made.
Klaus Kinski leads conquistadors down the Amazon into madness; the raft of monkeys.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
A German-Jewish family flees to a Kenyan farm in 1938 and the daughter grows up African.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
Dreyer's trial in close-up, with a performance from Renee Falconetti that has never been matched.
The Odessa Steps sequence, the pram, and the montage theory every editor still learns.
A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
A summer day at a Red Army hero's dacha in 1936, until the car from the NKVD arrives.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
A drifting veteran attaches himself to the founder of a new movement.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.
Two Jesuit priests search for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan.
The Osage murders of the 1920s, told as a marriage.
A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.
Daniel Day-Lewis drinks your milkshake in Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-boom epic.
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