The Best Films in History: Did Your Favorite Make the List?

Unforgiven

Actor and director Clint Eastwood starred in, directed, and produced this 1992 classic. Eastwood won an Academy Award for Best Director and was nominated for Best Actor for this role. Superstar actors Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman also starred in the film. It was the third ever western to win the Oscar for Best Picture. 

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The More You Know

  • Walt Disney hated Goofy.
  • The original raw footage of Apocalypse Now consisted of 1,250,000 feet of film which is over 230 hours’ worth.
  • Like Facebook, Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article ‘The’. Much cleaner without it.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
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