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Zoe Saldaña in 'Avatar' (2009).

In 2009, James Cameron broke his own 'Titanic' box office record with 'Avatar'—a boundary-pushing CGI feature that promptly made $2.9 billion at the box office.

Scott Beggs








Gary Cooper in 'High Noon' (1952).

The Western has been part of cinema since the very earliest days of Hollywood, and has produced some of the greatest films ever made. Here are 35 of them.

Matthew Jackson
















Only about 0.02 percent of the words in a dictionary start with the letter 'X.' Here are 40 of those rarities.

Paul Anthony Jones