FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

A big romantic melodrama among army guys and ladies on Hawaii, with the impending doom of Pearl Harbor hanging over everything.

SPARTACUS (1960)

As epics of Roman battles go, Spartacus is the thinking-man’s version. It also helped break the Hollywood Blacklist.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant invented the James Bond movie three years before it was a thing.