Watch American History X

Two days of colliding lives in Los Angeles; the most argued-about Best Picture of its decade.

Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.

The Dude, a rug that tied the room together, and nihilists; the cult film of the 1990s.

A 1947 detective reads faces captured with MotionScan; Team Bondi's noir.

An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.

Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.

Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".

Pacino and De Niro at a diner table, and the downtown LA shootout the police study.