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Selected by a special panel of filmmakers and critics, the films on this list span over 100 years of cinema and include comedies, horror flicks, dramas, documentaries, and beyond.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Through the bracero program’s 22-year span, as many as 4 million workers came in and presumably went home — though not always; a generation of families came here, or were born here, and stayed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The bridge over the Tumen river into Russia and an under-construction span to China are part of a shift that offers Western-sanctioned Pyongyang economic and strategic options it has long sought, experts said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the same span of months, the Clippers reached a carbon-offset deal with the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Sometimes too you will see the term Phanerozoic used to describe the span encompassing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic eras.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
In 2023, Ken Salazar, then the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said there were at least 200 tunnels that spanned the border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
His Chelsea career spanned 11 seasons and included four Premier League titles and a Champions League.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The few hundred in attendance spanned the full spectrum of AfD voters: young men in black bomber jackets and Lonsdale sweaters, elderly couples, barefooted hippies with braided beards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
American icon Dolly Parton, whose career as a country singer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist spanned six decades, has died at age 80.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Although the banks were lined with a jagged shelf of frozen over-flow, no ice bridges spanned the channel of open water, so he was forced to wade.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
His collection, largely unseen by the public until now, according to Christie’s, reflects Davis’ interest in some of the most influential artistic movements of his lifetime, spanning abstraction, Pop art and Neo-Expressionism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The only way to check that would be via a longitudinal study spanning 10 years or so, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Spanish prosecutors in January shelved a first complaint over the same allegations against Iglesias, a Grammy winner with more than 300 million records sold in a career spanning decades.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Instead, the planet may once have contained huge, connected magmatic systems spanning large portions of its crust.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Reggie had been the second-to-last child of six, the siblings spanning in age from Vicki to Phill to Jake to Nick, who was eighteen months Reggie’s senior and his pal and constant competitor.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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Civil Engineering
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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