Apocalypse Now

(1978) An army Captain searches for a renegade Colonel In Vietnam.

Blackboard Jungle

(1955) A story of juvenile delinquency at an inner city school.

Bullitt

(1968) A San Francisco police detective searches for gunmen who killed an informant.

Cool Hand Luke

(1967) An ex war hero is sentenced to a chain gang for cutting the heads off parking meters.

Deliverance

(1972) Four friends go on a canoe trip where they encounter unforeseen terrors.

The Day of the Jackal

(1973) A sophisticated assassin is hired by a French group to kill President de Gaulle.

Electra Glide in Blue

(1973) An Arizona motorcycle patrolman tries to become a detective.

Fahrenheit 451

(1966) Ray Bradbury's futuristic tale of book burning and mind control.

Fail-Safe

(1964) Cold War thriller where U.S. bombers are unleashed upon The Soviet Union.

Fargo

(1996) Car salesman hires two inept criminals to kidnap his wife.

Glory

(1989) Colonel Robert Gould Shaw commands the Civil War's first all volunteer black regiment.

In Cold Blood

(1967) Adaptation of Truman Capote's novel about the murder of a farm family in rural Kansas.

Inherit the Wind

(1960) Account of trial of John Scopes for teaching The Theory of Evolution in Tennessee.

The Lords of Discipline

(1983) Control of classmates at a southern military school by a group known as "The Ten".

Platoon

(1986) An idealistic soldier learns that idealism doesn't exist in Vietnam.

The Right Stuff

(1983) Story that covers the breaking of the sound barrier through the Mercury space program.

Seven Days in May

(1964) Senior military officers plot to take over the government of The United States.

Son of the Morning Star

Fairly accurate account of Colonel George A. Custer leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Southern Comfort

(1981) Louisiana National Guard on maneuvers in a swamp meet up with local opposition.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

(1974) A gang hijacks a New York subway train and holds the passengers for ransom.

Witness

(1985) A Philadelphia detective hides in a rural Amish community  from corrupt police .