This is the one, the first, the granddaddy, the chase on the top of almost every list similar to this one. Steve McQueen’s titular detective tracks a pair of gangsters all over San Francisco, flying over hills in the way that every driver occasionally wishes they could. Seven minutes long and at least seventy miles per hour fast (some claim it’s over 100 mph, but who knows for sure), Bullitt‘s car chase is a reminder that every great such scene is a triumph of editing as much as it is stuntwork. Naturally, it won that year’s Academy Award for Best Editing.