LUCOT MASTER MOVIE LIST
Disclaimer: Some of these movies may be rated R or inappropriate for kids under 18. Please ask
your parents before you view any of the following films!
This list was compiled by a former student who wrote down every movie that I ever referenced,
Random:
1. Midnight Express
2. Kundun
3. Seven Years in Tibet
4. Rudy
5. The Blues Brothers
6. Monty Python/Spinal Tap
7. Soylent Green
8. Best in Show
9. Divine Wind
10. Team America
11. Wordplay
12. Reservoir Dogs
13. Cool Hand Luke
14. The Shining
15. The Planet of the Apes
16. Red Dawn (original)
17. Cinema Paradiso
18. Night of the Living Dead
19. Melvin and Howard
20. Forrest Gump
21. Wild in the Streets
22. The Birds
23. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nazi invasion of Greece)
24. All the Rights Moves
25. The Gods Must Be Crazy
26. Koyaanisqatsi
Pre/Revolutionary War Era
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The Patriot
The Alamo
The Last of the Mohicans
The New World
The Crossing
Amistad
John Adams (HBO)
Pre/Post Civil War Era:
1. Gettysburg
2. Gone With The Wind
3. Glory
4. Gods and Generals
5. Birth of a Nation
6. Jeremiah Johnson
7. The Outlaw Josey Wales
8. Dances with Wolves
9. The Conspirator
10. The Searchers
11. Lincoln
12. Gangs of New York
13. The Long Riders
14. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
15. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
16. Pale Rider
17. Unforgiven
18. Far and Away (Irish immigration)
19. Lonesome Dove
20. The Molly Maguire’s
1920 - 30’s:
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Scarface (original)
White Heat
Matewan
Cinderella Man
Titanic
Gandhi
7. Public Enemies
8. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
9. The Untouchables
10. Inherit the Wind
11. Splendor in the Grass
12. Giant
13. East of Eden
14. Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
15. The Aviator
16. Once Upon a Time in America
17. Citizen Kane
18. On The Waterfront
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. It Happened One Night
21. It’s a Wonderful Life
22. The Spirit of St. Louis
23. Ragtime
1950’s:
1. Peggy Sue Got Married
2. American Hot Wax
3. Grease
4. The Buddy Holly Story
5. The Right Stuff
6. Good Night and Good Luck
7. Quiz Show
8. Rebel without a Cause
9. Bird
10. Rock Around The Clock
11. The Raging Bull
12. To Kill a Mockingbird
13. The Lost Weekend
14. The Day the Earth Stood Still
15. The Outlaw
16. The Blob
17. The Creature of the Black Lagoon
18. The Wild One
1960’s
1. Malcolm X
2. American Graffiti
3. Woodstock (documentary)
4. Mississippi Burning
5. 13 Days
6. JFK
7. I‘m Not There
8. Bobby
9. In Cold Blood
10. To Sir with Love
11. The Doors
12. Easy Rider
13. The Graduate
14. Psycho
15. The Night James Brown Saved Boston (documentary)
16. Across the Universe
17. Dirty Dancing
1970’s:
1. Billy Jack
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Skokie
4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Serpico
6. White Lightening
7. Gator
8. Charlie Wilson’s War
9. The Good Shepard
10. Play Misty for Me
11. Taxi Driver
12. Goodfellas
13. Casino
14. The Departed
15. The Last Waltz
16. The Boys From Brazil
17. A Bronx Tale
18. Silkwood
19. Remember the Titans
20. Deliverance
21. The China Syndrome
22. The Exorcist
23. Breaking Away
24. Roots
25. Jaws
26. The Company that We Keep
27. Dazed and Confused
1980-90’s:
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The Day After
Miracle
Fast Food Nation
Roger and Me
Politics:
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Wag the Dog
All the President’s Men
Thank You for Smoking
Primary Colors
Frost/Nixon
Nixon
Warm Springs (FDR)
The War Room
WWI
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Fly Boys
Gallipoli
21 Brothers
The Lost Battalion
All Quiet on the Western Front
Sgt. York
WW II
1. Band of Brothers
2. Enemy at the Gates
3. Triumph of the Will
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Das Boot
6. Valkyrie
7. Downfall
8. Saints and Soldiers
9. U-571
10. Letters from Iwo Jima
11. Flags of our Fathers
12. Patton
13. Memphis Belle
14. Empire of the Sun
15. The Longest Day
16. Inglorious Basterds
17. Fat Man and Little Boy
18. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
19. The Great Escape
20. The Guns of Navarone
21. The Pacific (HBO)
22. Judgment at Nuremberg
23. Thin Red Line
24. The Best Years of our Lives
Holocaust:
1. Schindler’s List
2. Defiance
3. The Pianist
4. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
5. Diary of Anne Frank
6. Escape from Sobibor
7. Shoah
8. The Devil’s Arithmetic
9. The Reader
10. Holocaust (TV)
11. Conspiracy
12. In The Arms of Strangers (Kindertransport)
13. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Korea
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Give Me Tomorrow (book)
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
MacArthur
Gran Torino
M*A*S*H
Vietnam
1. Platoon
2. Rescue Dawn
3. The Killing Fields
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Hamburger Hill
6. We were Soldiers
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Gardens of Stone
9. Born on the Fourth of July
10. Heaven and Earth
US History
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J. Edgar
The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Fog of War
Modern Era:
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Black Hawk Down
Hurt Locker
Munich
American History X
Argo
6. Salvador
7. Bowling for Columbine
8. Fahrenheit 9/11
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
11. Katie.com (book)
AIDS:
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Longtime Companion
Philadelphia
It’s My Party
And The Band Played On
Ryan White Story
If These Walls Could Talk 2