'being there' and 'The Candidate' for usa election politics.
'field of dreams' for the romance of our national pastime, baseball.
'breaking away' and 'american graffitti' for a coming of age hs-->college
'full metal jacket' and 'appocalypse now' for viet nam era culture
'blackhawk down' for 1990s military
'there will be blood' for american capitalism in its rawestform, wildcat oil prospecting in the 1920s, an extreme form of what goes on now.
'wall street' about same
'do the right thing' about race relations
'cool hand luke' about southern chain gang
'brother where art thou' about same in the '20s
