Raging Bull (1980)
Scorsese's 1980 boxing biopic of Jake LaMotta. Black-and-white, Schoonmaker-cut, De Niro at 60 pounds heavier.
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1950sHemo the Magnificent (1957)
Frank Capra's 1957 Bell Labs educational film mixing live action and animation. Dr. Frank Baxter and a cartoon Hemo teach kids how blood works.
1990sAmerican History X (1998)
Tony Kaye's 1998 Edward Norton vehicle on neo-Nazi violence. The bathroom scene with Avery Brooks remains the most powerful in the film.
1930sScarface (1932)
Howard Hawks's 1932 pre-Code Chicago gangster classic. Paul Muni as the Capone-adjacent Tony Camonte.
1950sWhere the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect then frames innocent man.
1950sThem! (1954)
Ted Sherdeman wrote, from a story by George Worthing Yates. The film made approximately two million dollars at initial release on a two hundred thousand dollar budget.
AmbiguityThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 and 2008)
Robert Wise directed the 1951 original. Scott Derrickson directed the 2008 remake.
Black and WhiteThe Lost Battalion (1919)
The Lost Battalion from 1919 is a silent docudrama made within months of the actual event it depicts. Major Charles Whittlesey appears as himself.
1920sWings (1927)
Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.
1950sThe Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal is the foundational arthouse film and one of the great works of the twentieth century. Max von Sydow plays Antonius Block, a knight returning from the Crusades to a Sweden in the grip of the Black Death.
1940sSergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
1950sThe Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is the film that invented the modern atomic-age monster movie. The third act involves the rhedosaurus, a fictional dinosaur, attacking lower Manhattan and eventually being killed at Coney Island.