30's - 40's
After a tornado in her Kansas farm, a girl and her dog travel through a magical land to find a way home with the help of a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Lion.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Starring Charlton Heston. A Jewish prince is betrayed by his Roman childhood friend and sold into slavery during times of Christ.
What is Ben-Hur?
This film made history as the first sequel to win Best Picture, alternating between the early life of Vito Corleone and his son Michael’s expansion of the family empire.
What is The Godfather II?
Directed by Steven Spielberg, an archaeologist played by Harrison Ford races against the Nazis to find a powerful biblical artifact.
What is Raiders of the Lost Ark? (Indiana Jones. Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Tom Hanks plays an Alabama man who inadvertently influences several historical events while remaining deeply devoted to his childhood friend, Jenny.
What is Forrest Gump?
Directed by Michael Curtiz. An American running a nightclub must choose between a former lover and helping her husband escape from the Nazis.
What is Casablanca?
Directed by Michael Anderson. Phileas Fogg accepts a bet and sets out on a race to circumnavigate the globe in a specific amount of days.
What is Around the World in 80 days?
Directed by George Lucas. A farm boy, a rogue smuggler, and a rebellious princess team up with a wise Jedi knight to defeat the evil Galactic Empire.
What is Star Wars?
Michael J. Fox plays a teenager is accidentally sent to the past, where he must ensure his parents fall in love so he doesn't erase his own existence.
What is Back to the future?
Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor in this movie by playing Hannibal Lecter, despite only being on screen for about 16 minutes in the entire movie.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
Elizabeth Taylor stars as the legendary Egyptian queen who had a complex political and romantic alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
What is Cleopatra?
Based on a book by Harper Lee. Directed by Robert Mulligan. An Alabama lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of a crime.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This movie shows the transition of power within an Italian-American mafia family.
What is The Godfather?
An upper-class young woman abandons her arrogant suitor for a struggling artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio on the ill-fated transatlantic voyage.
Jack Nicholson plays a convict who is transferred from a prison farm to a mental institution for observation, where he leads his fellow patients against a cold and tyrannical nurse.
What is The One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest?
Directed by Lewis Milestone, a young German soldier participates in World War I and faces the horrors of armed conflict.
What is All quiet on the Western Front?
Directed by Elia Kazan. Marlon Brando stars as a dockworker who delivers the famous line "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody "
What is On the Waterfront?
Starring Silvester Stallone an amateur boxer from Philadelphia gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the titleholder, Apollo Creed.
What is Rocky?
Shot almost entirely in black and white, this Steven Spielberg epic follows a German industrialist who spends his fortune to save Jewish refugees.
What is The Schindler's List?
Set during the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara does whatever it takes to save her family’s plantation. Directed by Victor Fleeming
What is Gone With the Wind?
Legendary silent film, directed by
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. A city woman tries to convince a simple farmer to drown his neglected wife.
What is Sunrise?
Gene Kelly stars as a World War II veteran who stays in Paris to pursue a career as a painter, only to fall for a young woman who is already engaged.
Directed by George Roy Hill, two con artists team up during the Great Depression, to get revenge on a ruthless mob boss.
What is The Sting?
Directed by and starring Mel Gibson, this historical epic follows a Scottish warrior who leads a rebellion against the tyrannical King Edward I of England.
What is Braveheart?
The first film in history to win the "The Big Five", directed by Frank Capra. A runaway heiress and a reporter travel across the U.S together.
What is It happened one night?