Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

Scream

Wes Craven reinvented the genre with this 1996 modern slasher-horror classic. A knife-wielding, murderous maniac stalks high-school students in the middle of suburbia. Nearly 25 years later, Scream remains clever, funny, and sharp as a blade.

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The More You Know

  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.
  • The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
  • An oyster's sex is fluid.
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