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	BABE
	Universal, 1995
	PRINCIPAL CAST	James Cromwell
	DIRECTOR	Chris Noonan
	PRODUCERS	George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller
	SCREENWRITERS	George Miller, Chris Noonan
	This fantasy film tells the story of Babe, an orphaned young pig who is raised by a sheep dog, becomes an expert herder, and forms a special bond with an eccentric farmer as they share "the faintest hint of a common destiny."

	BABES IN ARMS
	M-G-M, 1939
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
	DIRECTOR	Busby Berkeley
	PRODUCER	Arthur Freed
	SCREENWRITERS	Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper
	Rooney and Garland, offspring of out-of-work vaudevillians, put on their own show in this lavish "backyard" musical. A highlight of the film is a number in which they impersonate Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

	BACK TO THE FUTURE
	Universal, 1985
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
	DIRECTOR	Robert Zemeckis
	PRODUCER	Neil Canton, Bob Gale
	SCREENWRITERS	Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
	Fox is Marty McFly, a high-school student who jumps into a DeLorean time machine built by a crazy scientist, Lloyd, and travels back in time to 1955. After bungling the moment when his parents first meet, he must get them interested in each other to secure his own destiny.

	BADLANDS
	Warner Bros., 1973
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
	DIRECTOR	Terrence Malick
	PRODUCER	Terrence Malick
	SCREENWRITER	Terrence Malick
	A based-in-fact crime thriller about a notorious couple, a young garbage man and his teenage girlfriend, who crossed America in the 1950s leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The film was Malick's directorial debut.

	BAMBI
	Disney, 1942
	PRINCIPAL CAST	David Hand, Perce Pearce
	DIRECTOR	Walt Disney
	PRODUCER	Walt Disney
	SCREENWRITER	Larry Morey
	It's hard to keep a dry eye in this visually beautiful, animated story of life in the forest that moves from the idyllic to the horrific and back again for the sweet-natured fawn Bambi.

	THE BAND WAGON
	M-G-M, 1953
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan
	DIRECTOR	Vincente Minnelli
	PRODUCER	Arthur Freed
	SCREENWRITERS	Betty Comden, Adolph Green
	The Dietz-Schwartz score, boasting standards like "Dancing in the Dark" and "That's Entertainment," and some great dancing by Astaire and Charisse are highlights of this backstage musical. English musical star Buchanan holds his own with Astaire in the "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans" number.

	THE BANK DICK
	Universal, 1940
	PRINCIPAL CAST	W.C. Fields
	DIRECTOR	Edward F. Cline
	PRODUCER	Jack Gross
	SCREENWRITER	Mahatma Kane Jeeves
	Fields plays Edward Souse, a man who tries his best to live up to his name, but is heralded as a hero and awarded a job as a bank detective when he inadvertently topples over a robber. The caustic Fields' memorable lines include "I shall repair to the bosom of my family, a dismal place, I admit."

	BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
	Paramount, 1967
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick
	DIRECTOR	Gene Saks
	PRODUCER	Hal B. Wallis
	SCREENWRITER	Neil Simon
	Redford is a somewhat stuffy New York lawyer who marries free-spirited Fonda in this comedy about adjustments and acceptance in marriage just after the honeymoon.

	BATAAN
	M-G-M, 1943
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Robert Taylor, George Murphy
	DIRECTOR	Tay Garnett
	PRODUCER	Irving Starr
	SCREENWRITER	Robert D. Andrews
	This quintessential battle film centers on members of a remarkably diverse platoon who valiantly fight the invisible but relentless enemy in an effort to hold the Pacific island peninsula.

	BATMAN
	Warner Bros., 1989
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
	DIRECTOR	Tim Burton
	PRODUCERS	Peter Guber, Jon Peters
	SCREENWRITERS	Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren
	Keaton's Batman and Nicholson's Joker duke it out for the soul of Gotham City. Burton's take on the comic book's Dark Knight comes to life in the world created by Anton Furst's production design.

	BEAU GESTE
	Paramount, 1939
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy
	DIRECTOR	William A. Wellman
	PRODUCERS	William A. Wellman
	SCREENWRITER	Robert Carson
	After joining the French Foreign Legion, Cooper and his devoted brothers are subjected to the brutality of sadistic commanding officer Donlevy in this tale of a missing gem and a debt of honor.

	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
	Disney, 1991
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
	DIRECTOR	Don Hahn
	PRODUCERS	Linda Woolverton
	SCREENWRITER	Robert Carson
	This animated musical is based on the classic fairy tale of the girl who falls in love with a hideous beast only to discover he is a handsome prince under a spell. The film's songs include the title song and the show-stopping "Be Our Guest."

	BEN-HUR
	M-G-M, 1926
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy
	DIRECTOR	Fred Niblo
	PRODUCERS	Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn
	SCREENWRITERS	Bess Meredyth, Carey Wilson, June Mathis
	This silent version of Lew Wallace's famous novel set in Rome and Jerusalem at the time of Christ features a chariot race between Novarro and Bushman that remains one of the most spectacular scenes of the silent era.

	BEN-HUR
	M-G-M, 1959
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins
	DIRECTOR	William Wyler
	PRODUCERS	Sam Zimbalist
	SCREENWRITER	Karl Tunberg
	This epic remake of the 1926 film features Heston as the title character, a wealthy Jew whose former childhood friend, a Roman, causes him to lose everything. He eventually gets his revenge in the film's spectacular chariot race.

	THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
	RKO, 1946
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Harold Russell
	DIRECTOR	William Wyler
	PRODUCER	Samuel Goldwyn
	SCREENWRITER	Robert E. Sherwood
	World War II veterans from different strata of society face difficult readjustments to everyday civilian life in this thoughtful film, which simply and realistically shows a real-life soldier coping with devastating injuries.

	BEVERLY HILLS COP
	Paramount, 1984
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold
	DIRECTOR	Martin Brest
	PRODUCERS	Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson
	SCREENWRITERS	Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie, Jr.
	Murphy is a street-wise, smart-talking Detroit cop who arrives in Beverly Hills in search of the man who murdered a friend. Culture shock drives the laughs in this action comedy as Murphy navigates Rodeo Drive to get his man.

	BIG
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins
	DIRECTOR	Penny Marshall
	PRODUCERS	James L. Brooks, Robert Greenhut
	SCREENWRITERS	Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
	Marshall's magical comedy warns us to be careful about what we wish for. Here the wish is made by a twelve-year-old boy, who wants to be "big," and the next morning wakes up in the body of a thirty-year-old man, played by Hanks.

	THE BIG CHILL
	Columbia, 1983
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum
	DIRECTOR	Lawrence Kasdan
	PRODUCER	Michael Shamberg
	SCREENWRITERS	Barbara Benedek, Lawrence Kasdan
	Kline and Close lead an ensemble cast in this tragi-comedy about a group of college friends reuniting to mourn the suicide of their friend. The movie's soundtrack prompted a resurgence of 1960s classics like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine."

	THE BIG PARADE
	M-G-M, 1925
	PRINCIPAL CAST	John Gilbert, Renee Adoree
	DIRECTOR	King Vidor
	PRODUCER	Irving Thalberg
	SCREENWRITERS	Lawrence Stallings, Harry Behn
	Vidor's cadenced staging of a military assault is one of the highlights of this anti-war film featuring box office idol Gilbert as an eager American Doughboy.

	THE BIG SLEEP
	Warner Bros., 1946
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
	DIRECTOR	Howard Hawks
	PRODUCER	Howard Hawks
	SCREENWRITERS	William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
	Bacall and Bogart make sparks fly while trying to outwit the blackmailers, seedy cops and odd characters who populate the treacherous world of Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.

	THE BIRDS
	Universal, 1963
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy
	DIRECTOR	Alfred Hitchcock
	PRODUCER	Alfred Hitchcock
	SCREENWRITER	Evan Hunter
	Hitchcock's bird's-eye view of the apocalypse has our feathered friends attacking the residents of a small town in northern California.

	THE BIRTH OF A NATION
	Epoch, 1915
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Lillian Gish, Henry Walthall
	DIRECTOR	D.W. Griffith
	PRODUCER	D.W. Griffith
	SCREENWRITERS	D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
	This now-controversial film about the Civil War and its aftermath was the first of the great American epic films and a landmark in the development of the motion picture.

	THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
	M-G-M, 1955
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow
	DIRECTOR	Richard Brooks
	PRODUCER	Pandro S. Berman
	SCREENWRITER	Richard Brooks
	Teacher Ford is thrust into the often violent world of life in a gang-infested New York City high school. Poitier and Morrow lead rival gangs in the film, which has its credits rolling over the groundbreaking use of rock-and-roll music, specifically "Rock Around the Clock."

	BLADE RUNNER
	Warner Bros., 1982
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
	DIRECTOR	Richard Brooks
	PRODUCER	Ridley Scott
	SCREENWRITER	Hampton Fancher
	The opening shot of Los Angeles in 2019 sets the stage for Scott's dark, futuristic thriller. It's a world of buildings built over rubble, bursts of fire, a constant dirty rain and the shiniest, constant advertising that describes vacation colonies in space. This is where we find blade runner Ford, who has been hired to hunt down a group of "replicants," a powerful human-like species that has mutinied in space and returned to earth in an attempt to prolong their life-span.

	BLAZING SADDLES
	Warner Bros., 1974
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn
	DIRECTOR	Mel Brooks
	PRODUCER	Michael Hertzberg
	SCREENWRITERS	Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman
	Brooks takes aim at the American Western in this comedy about a group of crooks who want to run a railroad through Ridge Rock, so they send Little's Black Bart into town in hopes that the people will revolt. The film tickled America's funny bone and is probably best remembered for the infamous campfire scene.

	BLUE VELVET
	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
	DIRECTOR	David Lynch
	PRODUCER	Fred C. Caruso
	SCREENWRITER	David Lynch
	Catalyzed by the discovery of a severed ear, as two young lovers find themselves in the terrifying world of rapists, murderers and Hopper's gas sucking Frank Booth. Lynch exposes the seamy underside of an all-American town.

	BONNIE AND CLYDE
	Warner Bros., 1967
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
	DIRECTOR	Arthur Penn
	PRODUCER	Warren Beatty
	SCREENWRITERS	Robert Benton, David Newman
	Dunaway and Beatty star in the story of real-life 1930s bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, which mixed romance, adventure, glamour, comedy and violence in a way never seen before. "We rob banks."

	BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
	Universal, 1989
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe
	DIRECTOR	Oliver Stone
	PRODUCERS	Oliver Stone, A. Kitman Ho
	SCREENWRITERS	Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
	Based on the real-life story of screenwriter Kovic, Cruise plays a patriotic young man who signs up to serve in Vietnam. He returns home in a wheelchair and, after dark bouts with alcoholism and depression, he becomes active in protests against the war.

	BOYS TOWN
	M-G-M, 1938
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
	DIRECTOR	Norman Taurog
	PRODUCERS	John W. Considine, Jr.
	SCREENWRITERS	Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary, John Meehan
	Tracy plays Father Edward Flanagan, an Omaha priest who founded the famous orphanage predicated on his belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Rooney proved to be Flanagan's greatest challenge as the cocky "Whitey."

	BRAVEHEART
	Paramount, 1995
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
	DIRECTOR	Mel Gibson
	PRODUCERS	Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
	SCREENWRITER	Randall Wallace
	Inspired by the legendary exploits of 13th-century Scottish patriot William Wallace, the film is noteworthy for its intense battle scenes and stirring plea for freedom.

	BRAZIL
	Universal, 1985
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro
	DIRECTOR	Terry Gilliam
	PRODUCERS	Arnon Milchan
	SCREENWRITERS	Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Tom Stoppard
	Gilliam's darkly comic sci-fi epic nightmare of the future finds Pryce as a civil servant who desperately tries to hold onto his dreams. Occasionally, he allows his mind to soar with the woman of his dreams, high above this paranoid, claustrophobic world.

	BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
	Paramount, 1961
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
	DIRECTOR	Blake Edwards
	PRODUCERS	Martin Jurow, Richard Shepherd
	SCREENWRITER	George Axelrod
	Hepburn is Holly Golightly, a Manhattan party girl with a small town past. Peppard is a struggling writer kept by the wealthy Neal. The two free each other from the ties of the past and fall in love. The film features the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer song "Moon River."

	BREAKING AWAY
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Barbara Barrie
	DIRECTOR	Peter Yates
	PRODUCER	Peter Yates
	SCREENWRITER	Steve Tesich
	An exuberant local youth and his friends come of age in a college town that draws an ugly boundary between the students and the locals, nicknamed "cutters" for the town's stonecutting industry at a limestone quarry. The film's climax pits town vs. gown in a bicycle race.

	THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
	Columbia, 1957
	PRINCIPAL CAST	William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa
	DIRECTOR	David Lean
	PRODUCER	Peter Yates
	SCREENWRITER	Sam Spiegel
	Pierre Boulle (Carl Foreman & Michael Wilson) Guinness is the rigid British officer who refuses to bow to torture in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Holden is an American who escapes from the camp, then must return to sabotage a bridge constructed to perfection by inspired POWs under Guinness' command.

	BRINGING UP BABY
	RKO, 1938
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, May Robson
	DIRECTOR	Howard Hawks
	PRODUCER	Cliff Reid
	SCREENWRITERS	Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
	With the help of her pet leopard Baby and a wire-haired terrier named George, madcap heiress Hepburn derails the staid life of paleontologist Grant in this fast-paced screwball comedy.

	BROADCAST NEWS
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
	PRINCIPAL CAST	William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks
	DIRECTOR	James L. Brooks
	PRODUCER	James L. Brooks
	SCREENWRITER	James L. Brooks
	The movies turn their lenses toward TV news in this comedy that features Hunter as a fast talking TV producer who falls for the handsome anchor, Hurt, despite the fact that he embodies none of what she respects in a journalist. Brooks is doomed to lead the life of the romantic third wheel Ñ and ethical reporter.

	THE BROADWAY MELODY
	M-G-M, 1929
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
	DIRECTOR	Harry Beaumont
	PRODUCER	Harry Rapf
	SCREENWRITERS	Edmund Goulding, James Gleason, Norman Houston, Sarah Mason
	This "all-talking—all-singing—all-dancing" musical showed what sound and songs could do for the movie business. The film featured such classics as "You Were Meant for Me" as well as the title song.

	BULLITT
	Warner Bros., 1968
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
	DIRECTOR	Peter Yates
	PRODUCER	Philip D'Antoni
	SCREENWRITERS	Alan R. Trustman, Harry Kleiner
	Hard-boiled McQueen is police detective Frank Bullitt, who begins to suspect a witness he's been charged to protect. The car chase through the streets of San Francisco is considered one of the great chases on film.

	BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
	Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969
	PRINCIPAL CAST	Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
	DIRECTOR	George Roy Hill
	PRODUCERS	John Foreman, Paul Monash
	SCREENWRITER	William Goldman
	Newman and Redford are two offbeat outlaws who run (and jump) from the law, then flee to Bolivia where they meet a bloody end. The action-filled, lightly comic Western features the Burt Bacharach song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."