The Best Period Films

To Kill a Mockingbird

Ever wonder what it was like to grow up during the Great Depression? Look no further than 6-year-old Scout Finch, an innocent girl who grows wise beyond her years in the three years covered in this movie. Harper Lee's classic novel is one of Oprah's favorites, and the 1962 film certainly rises to the occasion. Named one of the American Film Institute's 100 greatest movies of all time, it brings characters like Scout, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson to life in the way we've always pictured them—and Gregory Peck's Oscar®-winning performance as defense attorney Atticus Finch still brings us to our feet.