A sound man (John Travolta) re-creates a political murder-by-car-crash with a sight-and-sound montage.

Three powerful conspirators (Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer) plot the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

An animal trainer (Barton MacLane) and a trapeze artist (Warren Hull) fight over the trainer's wife (June Travis).

While working at a circus, a man (Herbert Lom) hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

A circus trouble-shooter (Lee Tracy) flirts with the lion tamer (Peggy Shannon) between Midwestern shows.

A shy clown (Charles Butterworth) loves a circus girl (Winnie Lightner) who high-dives, hula-dances and fills in for the Wild Man of Borneo.

A British schoolteacher/archaeologist (Danny Kaye) joins a family circus as a clown and falls for an acrobat (Pier Angeli).

A circus heiress (Joan Peers) and her faithful manager (Joe Cook) fight bad weather, a strike and a fire.

A girl (Doris Day) and her father (Jimmy Durante) unknowingly hire a rival's son (Stephen Boyd) to help them save their tiny circus.

A circus man's (Victor Mature) show goes on under the scrutiny of a bank examiner (Red Buttons) and with help from a PR woman (Rhonda Fleming).

Three devoted brothers (Robert Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes) join the French Foreign Legion and face a sadistic commander and marauding Arabs.

Dickens' Madame Defarge knits, the Bastille falls, and a London lawyer (Ronald Colman) makes a great sacrifice for love.

Court followers foil a plot by having a British look-alike (Ronald Colman) pose as the king of Ruritania.

Fate follows a beggar king (Ronald Colman), his daughter, a dancer (Marlene Dietrich), and the caliph and grand vizier (Edward Arnold) of Baghdad.

A too-busy publisher (Ronald Colman) finds time to disrupt his fickle wife's (Anna Lee) latest affair.

A woman must marry well in order to inherit her grandmother's fortune, but her only taker is a well-known playboy.

After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

A riveter (Ben Lyon) strikes a debutante's (Ona Munson) fancy when he chases a hot bolt into her bedroom.

An innkeeper's daughter (Jean Harlow) runs away from home and meets a Palm Beach millionaire (Lionel Barrymore) and his son (Franchot Tone).

A bohemian socialite (Rosalind Russell) survives the market crash of 1929, marries a millionaire (Forrest Tucker) and teaches her nephew how to live.

A gangster's (Lee J. Cobb) lawyer (Robert Taylor) turns against him for a nightclub dancer (Cyd Charisse) in Roaring '20s Chicago.

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

The beautiful Linda strikes up a romance with Marty, the seemingly charming owner of a gambling joint. It isn't long before she realizes that he has his hands in more sinister enterprises, including murder.

After a tornado whisks Kansas farm girl Dorothy (Judy Garland) to a magic land, she must travel to the Emerald City for help in getting back home.

Globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones races the Nazis for possession of a legendary religious artifact.

A mousy novelist (Kathleen Turner) goes to Colombia for her sister and joins a mercenary (Michael Douglas) on a treasure hunt.

The Greek hero (Todd Armstrong) sails through Harpies and clashing rocks to the Golden Fleece, guarded by the Hydra.

Private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) encounters sundry characters (Mary Astor, Peter Lorre), all seeking a coveted statuette.

An Annapolis football star (James Stewart) clears his honor and his father's name in time for the Army-Navy game.

Two song-and-dance men (Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson) run into trouble and two women on a Texas dude ranch.

Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who preys upon railroads and transportation companies.

Tarzan swings to the rescue when an evil African chieftain takes a beautiful safari member as his bride.

A movie producer announces that Lillian Roth has been signed to do a movie, and he calls a story conference with a director and writers to come up with an idea for the film.

A poor Chicago secretary (Diana Ross) takes the fast lane to fame as a model and a fashion designer.

An ex-GI (Robert Mitchum), a singer (Jane Russell) and a detective (William Bendix) circle an American gangster in a Chinese port.

A young war orphan is subjected to ridicule after he awakens one morning to find his hair mysteriously turned green.

After a tornado whisks Kansas farm girl Dorothy (Judy Garland) to a magic land, she must travel to the Emerald City for help in getting back home.

A large proportion of the most commercially successful American films are quickly forgotten; a tiny fraction are truly memorable, lasting from one generation to another; Howard Suber asks why this small minority continues to have such power.

An aspiring actress and her black housekeeper retain a solid friendship despite problems with their teenage daughters.

In the 1920s, Newt Winger largely shrugs off racial prejudice until he witnesses his friend's father murdering a man, and realizes that going to the police could jeopardize both his friendship and his life.

Jeff (Chester Morris), an alcoholic writer, becomes the prime suspect in his publisher's murder after he is killed in a similar manner to a character in Jeff's unwritten book.

London highwayman Capt. Macheath (Laurence Olivier) sits in prison writing an opera based on his life.

A Balkan prince regent (Laurence Olivier) courts a Milwaukee chorus girl (Marilyn Monroe) during the 1911 coronation in London.

Emily Bronte (Ida Lupino) and her sister Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland) form a triangle with a curate (Paul Henreid) in 1830s Yorkshire.

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Jeff (Chester Morris), an alcoholic writer, becomes the prime suspect in his publisher's murder after he is killed in a similar manner to a character in Jeff's unwritten book.

A woman (Bette Davis) in Malaya kills a man, telling her husband (Herbert Marshall) and lawyer (James Stephenson) it was self-defense.

Orson Welles' tale of an eccentric Indiana family clinging to tradition during a time of rapid change.

A cattleman (Rock Hudson) and his spoiled wife (Elizabeth Taylor) watch an upstart oilman (James Dean) try to take over Texas.

A French teen (Leslie Caron) joins a carnival and meets a lying magician (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and a loving puppeteer (Mel Ferrer).

Having confessed to murder, a woman (Zita Johann) recalls her past while awaiting her fate on death row.

An Egyptian mummy (Boris Karloff) searches Cairo for the girl (Zita Johann) he thinks is his long-lost princess.

A Portuguese tuna fisherman (Edward G. Robinson) catches his bride (Zita Johann) with his first mate (Richard Arlen).

A gospel preacher (Paul Robeson) sinks in sin and corruption.

Two Soviet soldiers leave their starving unit to search a nearby farm for supplies. When they see the Germans have reached it first, they have to retreat deep into enemy territory.

A former pilot used to military ideas of service and obedience cannot adjust to life in peacetime.

A music professor (Claude Rains) presides over his four daughters and their suitors, one (John Garfield) of whom has a tragic bent.

The Sherwood Forest outlaw (Errol Flynn) and his men save King Richard and Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) from Prince John and Sir Guy (Basil Rathbone).

Two world wars pass before a socialite (Bette Davis) appreciates the Wall Street tycoon (Claude Rains) she married but never loved.

Five convicts escape from Devil's Island to join the Free French bombing squadron fighting the Nazis during WWII.

The narrator (Claude Rains) of a murder-mystery radio show is a killer, but his niece (Joan Caulfield) would never know it.

A cynical nightclub owner in Casablanca protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis, while also trying to navigate his complicated past.

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

A professor (Richard Burton) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) drink and verbally assault each other in front of a younger couple, their dinner guests.

The red robe worn by Christ links a Roman tribune (Richard Burton), his Christian lover (Jean Simmons) and a Greek slave (Victor Mature).

A man vents his rage against society by lashing out at his demoralized wife, his best friend and his eager mistress.

In Mexico, a defrocked clergyman (Richard Burton) juggles relationships with three women of disparate personalities.

A razor-wielding London thug (Richard Burton) robs a payroll with his gang; his pimp boyfriend (Ian McShane) has the alibi.

Heroic PT boat captains (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne) fight Japanese ships in the World War II Philippines.

Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their nit-picking captain (James Cagney).

A U.S. Army major selects and trains 12 hard-core criminals for a daring raid on an impregnable Nazi chateau.

A Tennessean becomes one of World War I's most decorated heroes by single-handedly capturing a German position.

A disabled serviceman and two other veterans (Fredric March, Dana Andrews) have difficulty adjusting to civilian life after World War II.

The story of Dean Hess (Rock Hudson), a World War II pilot who became a minister and went to Korea to open an orphanage.

A U.S. submarine commander (Rock Hudson) races Russians to a North Pole weather station to recover a Soviet spy satellite.

A blinded World War II veteran (Arthur Kennedy) in love with his nurse (Peggy Dow) tries to return to his girlfriend (Julia Adams) and family.

A U.S. ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) falls in love with an English nurse (Jennifer Jones) during World War I.

An Air Force major (Edmond O'Brien) and captain (Robert Stack) lead crews in combat against the Luftwaffe before D-Day.

A former boxer (Yujiro Ishihara) helps a beautiful and mysterious woman (Mie Kitahara) who's on the run from a gangster.

An ex-GI (Robert Mitchum), a singer (Jane Russell) and a detective (William Bendix) circle an American gangster in a Chinese port.

International train passengers (Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin) comb postwar Frankfurt for a politician abducted by Nazis.

A Turkish police chief (Orson Welles) puts a marked U.S. naval engineer (Joseph Cotten) on a freighter with Nazi spies.

A homicidal train engineer (Jean Gabin) lusts for a stationmaster's (Fernand Ledoux) wife (Simone Simon).

A U.S. spy (George Raft) goes by train to Turkey and joins Russian agents against a Nazi spy (Sydney Greenstreet).

Five convicts escape from Devil's Island to join the Free French bombing squadron fighting the Nazis during WWII.

A homesick Paris gangster (Jean Gabin) hiding in the Casbah of Algiers emerges for a woman (Mireille Balin), to his downfall.

Mistaken identity spurs a foreign spy (James Mason) to pursue an innocent New Yorker (Cary Grant), all the way to Mount Rushmore.

Crook-turned-secret-agent Harry Palmer tries to find a missing scientist. Based on characters created by Len Deighton.

A Moscow detective's investigation of a bizarre triple murder leads him to run-ins with the KGB and an American tycoon.

The president (Henry Fonda) cannot stop a Strategic Air Command plane accidentally cued to bomb Moscow.

Spies and the police chase a handcuffed couple (Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll) who cannot stand each other.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Helen Broderick) and her detective boyfriend (James Gleason) think the butler did it.

Perry Mason (Ricardo Cortez) explains in court what happened to a millionaire who changed his last will.

Urbane private eye Philo Vance (Paul Lukas) questions an eccentric (Alison Skipworth) and her son, who makes heavy water as a hobby.

In 19th-century London, jewel thief Nicholas Revel switches from thief to sleuth to catch a serial killer before he is charged with the crimes.

A young Englishwoman (Margaret Lockwood) tries to prove that an elderly governess (Dame May Whitty) was actually on a train.

Agatha Christie's sleuth Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) gets a job at an estate where she thinks there's a corpse.

A Hollywood producer (James Coburn) shares his Riviera yacht with six people who might have killed his wife.

A Harvard doctor's (Bruce Bennett) study of a female skeleton leads a Boston police detective (Ricardo Montalban) to a killer.

The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema; offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the technological innovations that culminated in Warner Brothers' ground breaking film, "The Jazz Singer" (1927).

A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie.

A princess begins a secret affair with a cavalry officer.

A Scotland Yard inspector (John Longden) deals with a blackmailer (Donald Calthrop) who knows that the lawman's fiancee (Anny Ondra) killed an artist.

Highlighting the birth of the Hitchcock Touch at a period when talking pictures first emerged and exploring trademark themes like murder, suspense and blondes.

A cotton picker (Daniel L. Haynes) turns preacher and meets a Tennessee temptress (Nina Mae McKinney) and her man (William Fountaine).

A Scottish barrister's (Brian Aherne) humble wife (Helen Hayes) edits him to eloquence in Parliament.

Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn) cuts her hair, dresses like a boy and flees French police with her father.

A special prosecutor (Brian Aherne) falls in love with the lawyer (Constance Bennett) he opposes in a racketeer's murder trial.

Flashbacks show why a psychiatrist (Brian Aherne) warned a man not to marry his ex-wife (Laraine Day).

A British commando (Brian Aherne) loves a Norwegian spy (Merle Oberon) who is willing to marry a Nazi major (Carl Esmond) for the Allied cause.

French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).

Two Ohio sisters (Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair) move to Greenwich Village, where one writes and the other one meets men.

An author (Willard Parker) and a literary agent (Rosalind Russell) become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

A bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) in a future megalopolis notes a fatal error over one man, named Tuttle (Robert De Niro), and another, named Buttle.

A psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) finally believes a patient (Bruce Willis) who claims to be a time-traveler sent to 1996 to prevent a virulent holocaust.

Cosmic dwarfs take a boy on an odyssey featuring Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon, King Agamemnon (Sean Connery).

King Arthur (Graham Chapman) goes questing on a pretend horse, followed by his lackey clacking coconut shells.