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5 Years Ago, Quentin Tarantino's Epic Cult Thriller Rewrote American History

20 Years Ago, Matt Damon Made a Perfect Assassin Thriller — And Changed the Rules of Action Movies

65 Years Later, the Most Notorious Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made is Better Than You Remember

What Secrets 385 Meteorites Tell Us About The Interior Of Mars

Peacock Just Quietly Released the Most Disappointing Roman Epic of the Decade

Scientists Discover A Lost Truth About What Actually Happened At Pompeii

25 Years Later, The Most Influential Thriller of the Past Century Leaves a Troubling Legacy

Australian Fossilized Amber Reveals A 42 Million Year-Old Secret

10 Years Ago, A Legendary Director Made an Underrated Vampire Thriller — And Set a New Standard for TV

Ancient DNA Just Confirmed A Long-Held Theory About Australia’s Most Controversial Species

Netflix Just Quietly Released Its Most Ambitious Viking Epic

24 Years Later, 'Gladiator II' Could Break a Tedious Hollywood Curse

The Most Epic Western of the Year Could Be the Nail in the Coffin for a Century-Old Genre

How The Wildest Sci-Fi Movie of the Year Found Its Smartest Character

4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

Scientists Just Uncovered New Clues About Ancient Human's Most Mysterious Cousins

10 Years Ago, an Ambitious RPG Paved the Way for 2023's Game of the Year

“I’m Doing This Movie.” The Wildest Erotic Thriller of the ‘90s Defied Hollywood at Every Turn

Amazon Just Quietly Added Christopher Nolan's Best War Thriller Ever

35 Years Ago, the Most Important Batman Movie Changed Hollywood Forever

94 Years Ago, a Controversial Thriller Launched an Unstoppable Hollywood Trend

10 Years Later, a Divisive Director Made a Historic War Thriller With a Complicated Legacy

15 Years Ago, The Most Overlook Battlefield Game Pioneered Modern Multiplayer Shooters

A New Study Debunks A Long-Standing Myth About the Inhabitants of Easter Island

50 Years Ago, an Iconic Neo-Noir Thriller Shocked Audiences — And Changed the Genre Forever

6,000 Years Ago, Scientists Find A Neolithic Society Treated Immigrants As Equals

'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' Will Improve on the Movies in One Epic Way

'House of the Dragon's Epic New Opening Credits is Ripped from Real History

30 Years Ago, Jack Nicholson's Bizarre Werewolf Movie Killed the Strangest Hollywood Trend

The Holy Grail Of Neanderthal Language Is Turning Out To Be An 800-Pound Gorilla

30 Years Ago, Nintendo Released Its Most Inventive Platformer — And Changed Mario Forever

50 Years Ago, the Most Underrated Conspiracy Thriller of the '70s Accidentally Predicted the Future

New Research Reveals What Ancient Humans Ate During the Bronze and Iron Ages

'Assassin’s Creed Shadows' Is Scaling Back Its Ambitions In One Genius Way

15 Years Later, the Best Sims Game Still Hasn't Been Topped

What Self-Medicating Animals Can Teach Us About Medicine

Why The "Sweet" Sound Of Cicadas Have Fascinated Humans For Millennia

20 Years Later, Mike Myers Reveals How 'Shrek 2' Pulled Off the Impossible

5 Years Ago, a Shocking Crime Thriller Started a Pervasive Trend — And Changed Hollywood Forever

This Ancient Egyptian Skull Could Be the First Evidence of Cancer Treatment

40 Years Ago, George Lucas Made a Controversial Movie Sequel — And Changed Hollywood Forever

'Assassin's Creed: Shadows' Might Be Late, But One Clever Twist Saves It

35 Years Later, the Director of the Quintessential '80s Action Movie Breaks Down Its 8 Wildest Moments

'Ghost of Tsushima' Refunds Are Another Blunder In PlayStation’s PC Plans

Ancient DNA Is Helping To Reconstruct Entire Bygone Societies

25 Years Ago, an Iconic Action Thriller Perfected the Modern Remake

80 Years Later, an Iconic Psychological Thriller is Even More Influential Today

This Ancient Diet Goes Against Everything We Know About Early Humans

Scientists Discover a 10,000-Year-Old Man-Made Megastructure Under the Baltic Sea

The Best Action Epic of the Year Defies an Annoying TV Trend