ทอม แฮงส์ ถ่ายทอดบทบาทฟอร์เรสท์อย่างน่าตะลึง ในหนังที่ได้รับการยกย่องเรื่องนี้ จากฝีมือผู้กำกับโรเบิร์ต เชเม็คคิส ซึ่งพุ่งขึ้นสู่ทำเนียบประวัติศาสตร์หนังทำเงิน และ.จับหัวใจผู้ชมอย่างไม่มีภาพยนตร์เรื่องใดเหมือน ในช่วงสามทศวรรษแห่งความโกลาหล ฟอร์เรสท์ดำเนินชีวิตผ่านกระแสช่วงเหตุการณ์ต่างๆเที่ผันเขาจากคนร่างกายพิการไปเป็นดาราอเมริกันฟุตบอล จากวีรบุรุษในสงครามเวียดนาม เป็นเศรษฐีธุรกิจเรือกุ้ง จากเกียรติยศแห่งทำเนียบขาวไปสู่อ้อมกอดของผู้ที่เขามีใจรักจริง ฟอร์เรสท์เป็นแบบอย่างรูปธรรมแห่งยุค จิตใจของเขาตระหนักต่อสิ่งที่เผชิญอยู่ แม้ไอคิวอันจำกัดของตัวเองไม่อำนวย ศีลธรรมของเขาไม่เคยคลอนแคลน ชัยชนะทั้งหลายของเขากลายเป็นแรงบันดาลใจแก่เราทุกคน

ลูกเสือฟินช์ วัย 6 ขวบ และเจม พี่ชายของเธอ อาศัยอยู่ในเมืองเมย์คอมบ์ รัฐแอละแบมา ที่ง่วงนอน โดยใช้เวลาส่วนใหญ่ร่วมกับดิลล์เพื่อนของพวกเขา และสอดแนมบู แรดลีย์ เพื่อนบ้านผู้สันโดษและลึกลับของพวกเขา เมื่อแอตติคัส พ่อม่ายของพวกเขาและทนายความที่น่านับถือ ปกป้องชายผิวดำชื่อทอม โรบินสันจากข้อหาข่มขืนที่ปลอมแปลง การพิจารณาคดีและเหตุการณ์ที่เกี่ยวข้องกันทำให้เด็กๆ ต้องเผชิญกับความชั่วร้ายของการเหยียดเชื้อชาติและการเหมารวม

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.

Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.

After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.

Luke and Jonah, two high school sweethearts, spend their final days together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural US South, contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of the United States.

Fearing the apocalypse, an insurance salesman sets off into the woods on a solo hunting experiment.

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.

In the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to the Watsons, a close knit family. When 15 year-old Byron’s antics go over the top, his parents realize enough is enough and they decide the family needs a dose of Grandma Sands' no nonsense approach in Birmingham, Alabama. So the Watsons load up their 1948 Plymouth Brown Bomber and head South. When they finally make it to Birmingham, they meet Grandma Sands and her friend, Mr. Robert and discover that life is very different there than in Flint. During that historic summer, the Watsons find themselves caught up in something far bigger than Byron’s antics; something that will change their lives and country forever.

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.