instructor: Jentery Sayers 
~ classroom: smi 309 
& ougl 101 ~ TTh: 9:30-11:20
Voice-Over Narration in Film and Television
This list is by no means exhaustive. In fact, it only scratches the surface. Let me know of films and TV shows that aren't on the list. I'll add them!
- The Power and the Glory (1933)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Jane Eyre (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- The Naked City (1948)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Diary of a Country Priest ( 1951)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- El Cid (1961)
- La Jetée (1962)
- Jules and Jim (1962)
- Lolita (1962)
- Band of Outsiders (1964)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Closely Watched Trains (1966)
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
- Little Big Man (1970)
- Two English Girls (1971)
- Cries and Whispers (1972)
- Badlands (1973)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Days of Heaven (1978)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Sans Soleil (1983)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- Far From Poland (1985)
- Sherman's March (1985)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Platoon (1986)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Lightning Over Braddock (1988)
- Family Gathering (1988)
- The Wonder Years (Television, 1988-1993)
- Roger and Me (1989)
- GoodFellas (1990)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Clueless (1995)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Looking for Richard (1996)
- When We Were Kings (1997)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Amelie (2001)
- About a Boy (2002)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- The Fog of War (2003)
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
- Arrested Development (Television, 2003-2006)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
For an excellent history of voice-over narration, check out "A Defense—and History—of Voice-Over Narration" by Sarah Kozloff.
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