Movie Choices
Exploration and Colonial Period
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
The Crucible 1996
The Scarlet Letter 1996
Last of the Mohicans 1998
The Revolution
1776 1972
Revolution 1985
Drums Along the Mohawk 1937
The Crossing 2000
The Patriot 2000
Up to Civil War
Jefferson in Paris 1995
The Alamo 1960 or 2004
Gangs of New York 2002
Amistad 1997
The Civil War
Cold Mountain 2003
Gone with the Wind 1939
The Red Badge of Courage 1951
Glory 1989
Gettysburg 1993
Gods and Generals 1941 and 2003
Native Americans
Dances with Wolves 1990
Smoke Signals 1998
Thunderheart 1992
3rd Qtr Movie Choices
To the Turn of the Century
Molly Maguires 1970
Newsies 1992
Oklahoma 1955
Meet me in St. Louis 1945
The Age of Innocence 1993
Hester Street 1975
Avalon 1990
Early 20th century to the 1920’s
The Great White Hope 1970
Cotton Club 1984
Godfather Part II 1974
The Great Gatsby 1974
Eight Men Out 1988
Once Upon a Time in America 1984
Spirit of St. Louis 1957
Matewan 1987
Citizen Kane 1941
Depression
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Day the Bubble Burst (1982)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
King of the Hill (1993)
All the King's Men (1949) -- the Kingfisher, populist governor and virtual dictator of Louisiana
All the King's Men (2006) -- remake of the 1949 movie
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) -- populist threat to FDR
WWII
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970
Pearl Harbor 2000
The Longest Day 1962
Patton 1970
Sands of Iwo Jima 1950
The Tuskegee Airman 1995
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
Fat man and Little Boy 1989