What are the most powerful films you have seen?

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21. The 1961 re-release (in color) of "Gone With The Wind"

I saw it when I was about 10, at the legendary Fox Theater in San Francisco and the best part of the experience was to be able to take the elevator up to one of the many "balconies" that the huge theater had. (capacity was 4,651 seats)
My friends & I had seen movies at the Fox theater before, many times, but the ground floor seated about 1,000 people, so there was a rope across the grand stairway preventing anyone from going upstairs (We sneaked up to the 2nd floor a couple of times)
But when the color remake of "Gone With the Wind" came out in "61, the entire theater was available...there were at least 8 or 9 balconies.

Other than that, the most memorable movie I ever saw in a theater was in 1973 when
American Graffiti came out.
I walked out feeling like I was floating on air, mostly due to the outstanding soundtrack of great "old time rock & roll" songs.

I only saw one movie on DVD that I consider "powerful" and that was Michael Moore's brilliant
"Fahrenheit 911" (2004) about the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
It was chilling to see George W. Bush continuing to sit in that Florida classroom, reading "My Pet Goat" with the kids, even after he was told about the horrific attacks on the WTC in New York City.
"Shocking" is how I would describe that incredible film.