Grand Prix

this idea that while anything's possible through technology, the debt of that ambition is paid out in blood.

Yes, the driving scenes dazzle, but Frankenheimer also embeds his 1966 Cinerama epic with some interesting commentary about risk-taking professions in general and the Formula One driver in particular. [Blu-ray]

Despite its melodramatic glimpses into the drivers' private lives, the racing sequences more than make up for the deficiencies.

Four decades later, John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix remains the best film ever made about professional auto racing.