Sergeant York (1941)

In director Howard Hawks' inspirational war biopic:

• the opening boom shot down a Tennessee river behind the credits
• the scenes depicting Alvin York's (Oscar-winning Gary Cooper) Tennessee backwoods existence before the war
• the fast-paced action scenes of World War I including the tracking shots of York's scramble through no-man's land and his single-handed killing of over two-dozen German soldiers and the capture of dozens more