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The Iran hostage crisis began on Nov. 4, 1979, when Islamist militants and students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, capturing 52 Americans who went on to endure 444 days as prisoners.

In the year 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a gun for hire called a looper, dispatches targets in a remote field in Kansas on behalf of a criminal organization run by a figure called the Rainmaker.

In 1979, director Ridley Scott piloted the horror genre into space with the groundbreaking Alien, sowing seeds of a distinct mythology that would breed decades’ worth of sequels, cross-overs, novels, and comics.