# Movie Marathon (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 198

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3943 "2020-02-25T12:32:04Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3944 "2020-02-25T13:59:48Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave

If you haven’t seen it, try to watch it. It’s excellent.

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> The film tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013, and is dedicated to their memory.

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**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3945 "2020-02-25T14:14:06Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3946 "2020-02-25T15:10:31Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always

Forest fires

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3947 "2020-02-25T15:13:55Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always
6. Hellfighters

About Red Adair fighting oilfield fires.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3948 "2020-02-25T15:22:24Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always
6. Hellfighters
7. 9/11

Documentary film directed by Jules and Gédéon Naudet and FDNY firefighter James Hanlon

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3949 "2020-02-25T17:15:53Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always
6. Hellfighters
7. 9/11
8. Turk 182

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3950 "2020-02-25T17:49:09Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always
6. Hellfighters
7. 9/11
8. Turk 182
9. The Towering Inferno

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3951 "2020-02-25T18:22:12Z")

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Fighting fire with firefighters

1. Roxanne
2. Backdraft
3. Only the Brave
4. Ladder 49
5. Always
6. Hellfighters
7. 9/11
8. Turk 182
9. The Towering Inferno
10. Firestorm

Next up:

Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3952 "2020-02-25T18:35:29Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3953 "2020-02-25T18:39:00Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3954 "2020-02-25T19:04:16Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups

This is going to be a tough category. Have they even made ten movies about police officers fighting crime?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3955 "2020-02-25T19:32:55Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3956 "2020-02-25T19:48:53Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection
6. Bullitt

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3957 "2020-02-25T20:31:06Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection
6. Bullitt
7. Police Story

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3958 "2020-02-25T21:04:14Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection
6. Bullitt
7. Police Story
8. Dirty Harry

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3959 "2020-02-25T21:15:35Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection
6. Bullitt
7. Police Story
8. Dirty Harry
9. Hot Fuzz

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3960 "2020-02-25T23:07:10Z")

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Fighting crime with cops

1. Black Rain
2. Dragnet
3. Bad Boys
4. The Seven-Ups
5. The French Connection
6. Bullitt
7. Police Story
8. Dirty Harry
9. Hot Fuzz
10. The Untouchables

Now just to make it a little more difficult…

Science fiction cop movies:

1. Blade Runner

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3961 "2020-02-25T23:10:32Z")

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Science fiction cop movies:

1. Blade Runner
2. Soylent Green

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/3962 "2020-02-25T23:16:53Z")

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Science fiction cop movies:

1. Blade Runner
2. Soylent Green
3. Robocop

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