![]() | Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $5.94 Hollywood's first and finest treatment of how the modern Middle East was born.
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![]() | Titanic (Three-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $8.90 The 20th century's most famous disaster is recreated quite well in this blockbuster of a film. The class divide, the western aristocracy, the workings of a cruise ship, etc, etc... are faithfully reproduced in this romance set against the backdrop of human disaster.
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![]() | All Quiet on the Western Front
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.56 This movie surpasses all others in capturing the lunacy and tragedy of war, and of government policies implemented for the execution of war. No dramatic score or grand battle scenes here; just personal tragedy on a private scale.
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![]() | Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.72 An Englishman playing an Indian in a movie about India's revolt against the English! Sounds crazy, but this movie is probably the best Hollywood biopic of a non-white person.
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![]() | Frida
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.80 Few movies about artists ever do well with both critics and moviegoers. This is one of them, and covers the major events of the Western art world between the World Wars.
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![]() | The Last Emperor - Director's Cut
Buy used from: $13.99 Several countries convulsed their way thru the 20th century. None more so than China, which went from Imperial dynasty to occupied warzone to Chinese nationalism and finally communism in a space of 4 decades. This movie captures much of this turmoil.
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![]() | Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.14 Few movies have so accurately depicted a historical event as this one. Everything from the timing, the places, the people, even the dialogue are spot on. This movie is as good as any history book in recreating the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941.
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![]() | The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $0.01 Before Bill Gates, George Soros or Warren Buffet, we had Howard Hughes. Eccentric, powerful, impetious all right, but insightful and full of foresight more importantly.
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![]() | Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.75 One of Spielberg's best, and one of Hollywood's most engaging and emotional treatments of human evil.
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![]() | Quiz Show
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.75 Reality TV, scandal and ratings are nothing new to television. See this recreation of an important TV event.
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![]() | Patton
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.83 Wars inevitably create heroes, and WWII created a good many of them, one of which is profiled in this great biographical movie
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![]() | Letters from Iwo Jima / Flags of Our Fathers (Five-Disc Commemorative Edition)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $29.99 See the story behind the most famous photograph from WW2.
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![]() | Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.80 The greatest invasion of all time, as reproduced by the greatest movie maker of all time.
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![]() | Kundun
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.20 Great story about a child emperor turned refugee.
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![]() | Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $0.99 The Red Scare was America's 20th century equivalent of the Salem Witch trials. And like all villians past and present, heroes arise to stand up against them. This chronicles the media's stand against McCarthy.
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![]() | JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $12.73 Give Oliver Stone credit for touching upon many of the most credible conspiracy theories relating to JFK's assasination.
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![]() | Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.99 The space race was won; news coverage was often relegated to the back pages of newspapers, and suddenly this happened. Once again, the world's attention turned up to space and the ordeal of American astronauts.
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![]() | The Killing Fields
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.00 Of all the genocides of the 20th century, few are as least known as the tragedy in Cambodia. What few know is that the US could have easily prevented it?
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![]() | Blow (Infinifilm Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.64 After energy and armaments, what was the biggest growth industry of the 20th century? The drug industry of course? See a snapshot of this business as portrayed by one of Hollywood's leading actors.
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![]() | Hotel Rwanda
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.50 See this recreation of the biggest tragedy of the 1990s; the genocide in Rwanda.
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