Punishment Park is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will …

Filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually stunning films of the twentieth century, and Days of Heaven is no exception. Set to the picturesque backdrop of the American west at the turn of the century, the film's brilliant cinematography—as shot in Alberta—is enough to earn it the title of "one of the most beautiful films ever made."