Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick's 1968 space epic was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel". Dr. Dave Bowman and a team of other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission; their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly bizarre behavior, leading to the ultimate showdown between man and machine.

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  • The location of Tony Stark’s mansion in Iron Man is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the Statue of Liberty is sticking out from the sand.
  • You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away.
  • Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn failed his driving test eight times.
  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.