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

The More You Know

• Like Facebook, Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article ‘The’. Much cleaner without it.
• John Travolta would have played Maverick in Top Gun if his asking price wasn't too high.
• The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
• The ornaments that Marv steps on in Home Alone are actually candy.