1989 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
![Born on the Fourth of July](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-image.jpg)
Born on the Fourth of July
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
An ophthalmologist’s mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
![Dead Poets Society](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dead-poets-society-peter-weir-image.jpg)
Dead Poets Society
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.
![Driving Miss Daisy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/driving-miss-daisy-bruce-beresford-image.jpg)
Driving Miss Daisy
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
![Field of Dreams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/field-of-dreams-phil-alden-robinson-image.jpg)
Field of Dreams
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.
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Glory
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
![Henry V](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/henry-v-kenneth-branagh-image.jpg)
Henry V
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
![My Left Foot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/my-left-foot-jim-sheridan-image.jpg)
My Left Foot
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb – his left foot.
![Sex, Lies, and Videotape](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sex-lies-and-videotape-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
A sexually repressed woman’s husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
![The Fabulous Baker Boys](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fabulous-baker-boys-steve-kloves-image.jpg)
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.