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NINE MOVIES (AND ONE TV SHOW) THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES

SELECTED BY SHOWRUNNERS The Duffer Brothers

DUMBO (1941)

The first movie we ever saw. It made us laugh, it made us cry, it taught us the power of the moving image.

THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)

As movie-obsessed kids, we subsisted on a cinematic diet almost exclusively from the ’80s and ’90s — that. Before long we were sifting through a treasure trove of classics, but our history lesson began right here, in a World War II POW camp with Steve McQueen, the coolest movie star of all time.

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