best movies 1962

A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army.

In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.