Sometimes it takes an outsider to expose the truth of a place, and no film has encapsulated the glorious, menacing tragedy of our country quite as ravishingly as Sergio Leone in Once Upon a Time in America.<br>Leone crafts an unparalleled saga about two friends and the complex urban underworld in which they live. The modern epic follows Noodles and Max and their cadre of Jewish gangsters in New York from their childhood in the early 1900’s, through the glory years of prohibition and the gang’s subsequent reunion 35 years later. It chronicles the ruthless ambitions that drive the two friends and the volatile passions that destroy them and those who love them.<br>Nearly everything about Leone’s last film - his magnum opus - speaks to the grand illusion of the American Dream, and this extended and restored edition is the final version with over 20 minutes of restored footage where Leone had originally intended them thanks to the perseverance of The Film Foundation and the Leone family.<br><b>4K DCP digital restoration by Cineteca di Bologna, Andrea Leone Films, The Film Foundation, and Regency Enterprises.</b>DramaPT4H10MR18+2026-09-19