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List: All the films Beeban Kidron mentions in her TEDTalk

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Today’s TEDTalk, Beeban Kidron on the shared wonder of film, invokes some iconic film scenes swimming around in our shared narrative. Looking for the list? Here it is for you to immerse yourself — “Unless you do, you may not know that you, too, have a heart.”

Miracle in Milan, Vittorio de Sica (1951)
Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle (2008)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra (1939)
Hotel Rwanda, Terry George (2004)
Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg (1993)
To Sir, with Love, James Clavell (1967)
Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi (2007)
Jaws, Steven Spielberg (1975)
The Diary of Anne Frank, George Stevens (1959)
The Great Escape, John Sturges (1963)
Shoah, Claude Lanzmann (1985)
Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming (1939)
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles (1941)
Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton (1991)
– Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Ron Howard (1995)
– Ben Kingsley as Gandhi in Gandhi, Richard Attenborough (1982)
– Eve Harrington from All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
– Howard Beale from Network, Sidney Lumet (1976)
Mildred Pierce, Michael Curtiz (1945)
Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954)

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