This document provides a summary of three of the author's favorite movies from different decades: 12 Angry Men (1957), Once Upon a Time in the West (1969), and The Godfather (1972). It briefly describes the key elements of each film including their social themes of the American legal system, gangs/railroad wars, and the mafia/corruption. For 12 Angry Men, it summarizes the plot involving a jury deliberating a murder case where the punishment would be death. For Once Upon a Time in the West, it outlines the story involving how the lives of four people intersect. And for The Godfather trilogy, it describes the depiction of the Corleone family's rise in the