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After the World Wars to a Human Walking on the Moon (1946-1969)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler, 170 min.)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947, Elia Kazan, 118 min.)
All the King’s Men (1949, Robert Rossen, 109 min.)
Third Man (1949, Carol Reed, 104 min.)
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 139 min.)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder, 110 min.)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan, 122 min.)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 103 min.)
Shane (1953, George Stevens, 117 min.)
The Wild One (1953, László Benedek, 79 min.)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan, 108 min.)[1]
Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock, 112 min.)
Salt of the Earth (1954, Herbert J. Biberman, 90 min.)[2]
East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan, 105 min.)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton, 93 min.)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray, 111 min.)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956, Nunnally Johnson, 153 min.)
Moby Dick (1956, John Huston, 115 min.)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford, 119 min.)
The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil DeMille, 220 min.)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock, 128 min.)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder, 122 min.)
Inherit the Wind (1960, Stanley Kramer, 128 min.)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Stanley Kramer, 178 min.)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan, 129 min.)
Lord of the Flies (1963, Peter Brook, 90 min. [not the 1990 version directed by Harry Hook])
The Ugly American (1963, George Endlund, 121 min.)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick, 96 min.)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 135 min. [not the colorized and/or abridged version])
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols, 127 min.)
The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols, 105 min.)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer, 108 minutes)
Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Shaffner, 112 min.)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick, 139 min.)
Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper, 95 min.)

[1] On the Waterfront, among other things, might be considered an allegory of the HUAC hearings.

[2] The director and many of the actors of Salt of the Earth were “blacklisted” after this film’s release.