This 1953 Arthur Miller play dramatizes the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism.
What is The Crucible?
This 2014 Christopher Nolan film explored wormholes and time dilation.
What is Interstellar?
This 1915 Franz Kafka novella features Gregor Samsa waking up as a giant insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
This 1984 David Lynch film adapted Frank Herbert’s desert planet saga and was recently remade.
What is Dune?
This 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play was the first by an African American woman produced on Broadway.
What is a Raisin in the Sun?
This 1988 Japanese anime, most famous for its bike scene, by Katsuhiro Otomo depicted a dystopian Neo-Tokyo.
What is Akira?
This 1962 Anthony Burgess novel introduced the invented slang “Nadsat,” spoken by its ultraviolent teenage protagonist.
What is A Clockwork Orange?
This 1957 Sidney Lumet courtroom drama revolved around one juror’s doubt.
What is 12 Angry Men?
This 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus details the absurdity and questions the meaning of life.
What is The Myth of Sisyphus?
This 2001 Richard Kelly film starred Jake Gyllenhaal and a creepy rabbit named Frank.
What is Donnie Darko?