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1. Tristan & Isolde (2006)
directed by Kevin Reynolds
featuring James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, David Patrick O'Hara, Mark Strong
One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King ... More
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2. Hamlet (1996)
directed by Kenneth Branagh
featuring Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, Brian Blessed, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers
At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the ... More
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3. Inside Job (2010)
directed by Charles Ferguson
featuring Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Willem Buiter, John Campbell, Patrick Daniel, Satyajit Das, Kristin Davis, Martin Feldstein, Jerome Fons, Barney Frank, Robert Gnaizda, Michael Greenberger, Eric Halperin, Samuel Hayes, Glenn Hubbard, Simon Johnson, Christine Lagarde, Jeffrey Lane, Andrew Lo, Lee Hsien Loong, Andri Magnason, David McCormick, Lawrence McDonald, Harvey Miller, Frederic Mishkin, Charles Morris, Frank Partnoy, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Nouriel Roubini, Andrew Sheng, Allan Sloan, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Scott Talbott, Gillian Tett, Paul Volcker, Martin Wolf, Gylfi Zoega
Producer/director Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) speaks at length with journalists, politicians, and financial insiders in order to offer a ... More
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4. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
directed by Baz Luhrmann
featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Pete Postlethwaite
The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun ... More
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5. Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
directed by James Cameron
Filmmaker James Cameron has long been fascinated with the ill-fated maiden voyage of the great ship the Titanic , and he used the story as the ... More
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6. Grizzly Man (2005)
directed by Werner Herzog
featuring Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Warren Queeney, Willy Fulton, Sam Egli
Filmmaker Werner Herzog adds another real-life character to his growing pantheon of people who walk a fine line between visionary genius and madness ... More
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7. Macbeth (1978)
directed by Philip Casson
featuring Ian McKellen, Judi Dench
This 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth was originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1978. The company's artistic director ... More
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8. The Merchant of Venice (2004)
directed by Michael Radford
featuring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson
One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of The Merchant of Venice. ... More
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9. Julius Caesar (1953)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Edmond O'Brien, Deborah Kerr
Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this exquisite version of William Shakespeare's play. Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him ... More
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10. Macbeth (1971)
directed by Roman Polanski
featuring Terence Bayler, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Selby, John Stride, Vic Abbott, Stephen Chase
Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated scene and the film's much ... More
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11. Touching the Void (2004)
directed by Kevin Macdonald
featuring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawking
In 1985, two adventurous young mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set off to climb the treacherous west face of the Siula Grande in the ... More
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12. Hamlet (2000)
directed by Michael Almereyda
featuring Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Julia Stiles
William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director ... More
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13. Ran (1985)
directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century ... More
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14. The Art of the Steal (2010)
directed by Don Argott
featuring Dr. Albert C. Barnes, John Street, Richard H. Glanton, Julian Bond, Ross L. Mitchell, Nick Tinari, Dr. Robert Zaller, David d'Arcy, Christopher Knight, Barry Munitz
Born into a working-class family in Philadelphia, Albert C. Barnes was a man who through hard work and determination became a doctor and medical ... More
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15. Richard III (1955)
directed by Laurence Olivier
featuring Cedric Hardwicke, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Nicholas Hannen, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson, Alec Clunes
Laurence Olivier was the director, co-screenwriter (with Alan Dent), and star of this robust adaptation of Shakespeare's drama, which, as Bruce Eder ... More
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16. The Swimmer (1968)
directed by Frank Perry
featuring Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Diana Van Der Vlis, Tony Bickley, Kim Hunter
John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer ... More
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17. National Geographic: The Search for Kennedy's PT 109 (2002)
From National Geographic comes The Search for Kennedy's PT 109, a documentary that features Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the remains of the ... More
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18. Othello (1995)
directed by Oliver Parker
featuring Laurence Fishburne, Irčne Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney
Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half ... More
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19. Throne of Blood (1957)
directed by Akira Kurosawa
featuring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Takamaru Sasaki
Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson ... More
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20. Macbeth (2010)
directed by Rupert Goold
Sir Patrick Stewart stars in director Rupert Goold's visionary take on William Shakespeare's classic play, which shifts the action to a foreboding ... More
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21. Crude (2009)
directed by Joe Berlinger
featuring Pablo Fajardo, Luis Yanza, Germán Yáńez, Adolfo Callejas, Diego Larrea, Emergildo Criollo, Steve Donziger, Altossa Soltani, Alejandro Ponce, Joseph Kohn, Maria Garofalo
The story behind the world's largest oil-related environmental lawsuit comes to the screen as award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger ... More
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22. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
directed by Michael Moore
featuring Michael Moore
Directed by Michael Moore, whose aura of controversy only grew after his Oscar acceptance speech at the 2003 Academy Awards, Fahrenheit 9/11, like ... More
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23. Waltz With Bashir (2008)
directed by Ari Folman
featuring Ari Folman, Ori Sivan, Roni Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel, Ron Ben Yisahi, Dror Harazi, Boaz Rein Buskila, Carmi Cna'an, Yehezkel Lazarov
Director Ari Folman's animated, quasi-documentary Waltz With Bashir follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded ... More
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24. Othello (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre) (2007)
Wilson Milam directed this Globe Theater production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, starring Eamonn Walker (Oz) as the ill-fated Moor, and ... More
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25. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery
Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office ... More
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