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Clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down for an interview with Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman. (Image: YouTube, Channel 4 screenshot) ** FILE **

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CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta disputed President Trump's clean bill of health this week, claiming that the numbers actually suggest the president has heart disease. (CNN)

An aggressive press has been around for a while. Here, then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump faces a wall of journalists on the 2016 campaign trail. The relationship hasn't improved at all. (Associated Press)

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Matt Damon apologized on the "Today" show Tuesday after his comments on sexual harassment drew backlash one month ago. (NBC)

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Talk show host Rush Limbaugh argued on his show that the media reaction to President Trump's controversial expletive remarks about certain countries is manufactured. He called the anchors "actors." (Associated Press)

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Actress Sharon Stone discusses her career during a Jan. 14, 2018, interview on "CBS Sunday Morning." (Image: CBS screenshot)

U571

U-571 (2000) directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry. In 1942, a World War II German submarine is boarded by United States Navy submariners, disguised as Germans, seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine. The film won an Academy Award for sound editing. However, the fictional plot attracted substantial criticism - in reality, it was British sailors from HMS Bulldog in May 1941 who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110) in the North Atlantic, months before the United States had even entered the war. The anger over these inaccuracies reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed that the film was an "affront" to British sailors.

ToraToraTora

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Japanese-American biographical war drama film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards. Tora! Tora! Tora! was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Visual Effects.

TheLongestDay

The Longest Day (1962) a film based on Cornelius Ryan's book The Longest Day (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall and Jack Seddon. It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard Wicki (German scenes). The Longest Day, which was made in black and white, features a large ensemble cast including John Wayne, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Steve Forrest, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Rod Steiger, Leo Genn, Gert Fröbe, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Curt Jürgens, George Segal, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka and Arletty. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for Best Cinematography and Best Special Effects

SchindlersList

Number 18: Schindler's List | Directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg the 1993 film was the recipient of seven Academy Awards (out of twelve nominations), including Best Picture.

SavingPrivateRyan

Number 2: Saving Private Ryan | The 1998 film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II was directed by Steven Spielberg. It follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and a squad as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

Platoon

Platoon (1986) an anti-war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen. Stone wrote the screenplay based upon his experiences as a U.S. infantryman in Vietnam, to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets. Platoon was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War. Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" poll.

PearlHarbor

Pearl Harbor (2001) film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film is loosely based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the Doolittle Raid. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the film was a major box office success, earning $59 million in its opening weekend and nearly $450 million worldwide. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Sound Editing. However, it was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture. This marked the first occurrence of a Worst Picture-nominated film winning an Academy Award.

HurtLocker

Number 10: The Hurt Locker | The 2008 film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and stars Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim and won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Bigelow won the award for Best Director, making it the only film by a female director to win in either category.

HacksawRidge

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector. The film focuses on the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who was a Seventh-day Adventist, refusing to carry or use a firearm or weapons of any kind. Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for service above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Okinawa. Andrew Garfield stars as Doss, with Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, and Vince Vaughn in supporting roles. Hacksaw Ridge was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of its top ten Movies of the Year, and has received numerous awards and nominations. The film received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Garfield and Best Sound Editing, winning the awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

GunsOfNavarone

The Guns of Navarone (1961) directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by producer Carl Foreman was based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel The Guns of Navarone, which was inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Darren and Anthony Quayle. The film is about the efforts of an Allied commando unit to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects

DirtyDozen

Number 7: The Dirty Dozen | The 1967 film was directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category Best Sound Effects.

BlackHawkDown

Number 12: Black Hawk Down | Directed by Ridley Scott in 2001, it is based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden, chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu.

AmericanSniper

American Sniper (2014) directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason Hall. It is loosely based on the memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012) by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The film follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the Department of Defense. The film was produced by Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan. It stars Cooper as Kyle and Sienna Miller as his wife Taya, with Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Cory Hardrict, Kevin Lacz, Navid Negahban, and Keir O'Donnell in supporting roles. American Sniper received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Cooper, winning one award for Best Sound Editing.