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How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.

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Legacy · OEJD
film 1993

Schindler's List

Schindler's realization that he could have saved more. "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Legacy as moral accounting.

Legacy · OEJD
film 2012

Lincoln

Lincoln engineering the 13th Amendment - his calculated, morally serious work to make a legacy that would outlast his administration.

Legacy · OEJD
film 1946

It's a Wonderful Life

George Bailey discovering, through his absence, the full extent of his legacy. What a life built for others actually builds.

Legacy · OEJD
film 1962

Lawrence of Arabia

The ambiguous legacy of one man's impossible ambition - what gets built, what gets destroyed, and what persists in either case.

Legacy · OEJD
film 2010

The Social Network

Legacy built on ambition and paid for with friendship. The things you sacrifice to build something that lasts.

Legacy · OEJD
film 1982

Gandhi

A man who used nonviolence to end an empire and died knowing the nation he helped free was fracturing. Legacy as the thing that escapes your control the moment you build it.