These eight Best Picture winners are ranked below, starting with the good and ending with the great.

In between was another Best Picture winner with big production values:Braveheart.

The premise ofPlatoonis effective in its simplicity.

A pilot flying a biplane in the 1927 movie, ‘Wings.'

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A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

It’s fast-paced and thrilling, and well-remembered for some of the sustained sequences of action it contains.

It’s a crowd-pleaser for sure, so there’s a verygood chance that you will be entertained.

Mel Gibson standing with a large group of men cheering before going to fight in Braveheart

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Charlton Heston as Ben-Hur steering white horses in a chariot race in ‘Ben-Hur’ (1959).

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A soldier looks at the forest and an oncoming helicopter in Oliver Stone’s Platoon

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Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

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Popeye Doyle driving a car and looking worried in The French Connection - 1971

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Gladiator - 2000

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Evelyn, fighting while paper sheets fly around her in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - 2003

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