United States Historic Period Movies
Colonial History
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (Anthony Hopkins) G
Crucible, The (Winona Ryder) PG13
Scarlet Letter, The (Demi Moore) R
Last of the Mohicans, The (Daniel Day-Lewis) R
Pocahontas (voice of Mel Gibson) G
Revolutionary History
Revolution (Al Pacino) PG
Patriot, The (Mel Gibson) R
Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp) R
1776 (William Daniels) PG
Jefferson in Paris (Nick Nolte) PG13
Crossing, The (Jeff Daniels) TV
Johnny Tremain (Hal Stalmaster) G
Native American History
Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner) PG13
I Will Fight No More Forever (James Whitmore) G
Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman) PG13
They Died with Their Boots On (Errol Flynn) G
Geronimo (Wes Studi) PG13
Buffalo Soldiers (Danny Glover) TV
Westward Expansion
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (Fess Parker) G
Alamo, The (John Wayne) G
Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) PG
Wind River (Russell Means) PG13
Alamo, The (Billy Bob Thorton) PG13
Western History
Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner) PG13
Tombstone (Kurt Russell) R
Siverado (Kevin Kline) PG13
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Paul Newman) PG
American Outlaw (Colin Farrell) PG13
The Wild Bunch (William Holden) R
The Long Riders (David Carradine) R
The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner) PG13
Unforgiven, The (Clint Eastwood) R
Young Guns (Emilio Estevez) R
Shane (Alan Ladd) Unrated
Virginian, The (Bill Pullman) TV
Frank and Jessie (Rob Lowe) R
Goin South (Jack Nicholson) PG
American Tail: Fievel Goes West, An (Jimmy Stewart) G
Maverick (James Garner) PG
Civil War
Glory (Denzel Washington) R
Gettysburg (Tom Berenger) PG
Gods and Genrals (Jeff Daniels) PG13
Gone with the Wind (Clark Gable) G
Andersonville (Jarrod Emick) TV
Turn of the Century
Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio) PG13
Rough Riders (Tom Berenger) TV
Road to Wellville, The (Matthew Broderick) R
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Glen Close) TV
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) PG
The Great White Hope (James Earl Jones) PG13
Newsies (Christian Bale) PG
Immigration
Far and Away (Tom Cruise) PG13
Gangs of New York (Leonardo DiCaprio) R
American Tail, An (Phillip Glasser) G
World War I
In Love and War (Sandra Bullock) PG 13
Paths to Glory (Kirk Douglas) Unrated
All Quiet on the Western Front (Richard Thomas) Unrated
Sergeant York (Gary Cooper) G
1918 (Matthew Broderick) Unrated
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Gatsby (Robert Redford) PG
Matewan (Chris Cooper) PG13
Eight Men Out (John Cusack) PG
Chicago (Renée Zellweger) PG13
Untouchables, The (Kevin Costner) R
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (George Clooney) PG13
Great Waldo Pepper, The (Robert Redford) PG
Babe, The (John Goodman) PG
Bonnie and Clyde (Warren Beatty) PG13
Spirit of St. Louis, The (Jimmy Stewart) PG
Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly) G
The Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath, The (Henry Fonda) Unrated
Cannery Row (Nick Nolte) PG
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise) PG13
Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks) R
Places in the Heart (Sally Field) PG
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (Gabrielle Anwar) G
Green Mile, The (Tom Hanks) R
The Sting (Robert Redford) PG
Billy Bathgate (Dustin Hoffman) R
Natural, The (Robert Redford) PG
World War II
Memphis Belle (Matthew Modine) PG13
Pearl Harbor (Ben Affleck) PG13
Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks) R
Tuskegee Airmen, The (Laurence Fishburne) TV
Windtalkers (Nicolas Cage) R
Tora, Tora, Tora (Martin Balsam) G
A Bridge Too Far (Robert Redford) PG
Longest Day, The (Richard Burton) G
League of Their Own, A (Tom Hanks) PG
1941 (John Belushi) PG
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart) PG
Thin Red Line (Sean Penn) R
Men of Honor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) R
U 571 (Matthew McConaughey) PG13
Dirty Dozen, The (Lee Marvin) PG
Separate Peace, A (Parker Stevenson) PG
Patton (George C. Scott) PG
Summer of my German Soldier, The (Kristy McNichol) G
They Were Expendable (John Wayne) G
Biloxi Blues (Matthew Broderick) PG13
Glenn Miller Story, The (Jimmy Stewart) Unrated
After World War II
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Jeff Bridges) PG
Truman (Gary Sinise) PG
A Walk in the Clouds (Keanu Reeves) PG13
Shawshank Redemption, The (Tim Robbins) R
A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe) PG13
A Christmas Story (Peter Billingsley) PG
Bugsy (Warren Beatty) R
Godfather, The (Marlon Brando) R
Devil in a Blue Dress (Denzel Washington) R
LA Confidential (Kevin Spacey) R
1950s
Grease (John Travolta) PG
American Graffiti (Ron Howard) PG
Pleasantville (William H. Macy) PG13
Blast from the Past (Brendan Fraser) PG13
Guilty by Suspicion (Robert De Niro) PG13
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (Carl Reiner) Unrated
Majestic, The (Jim Carrey) PG
Peggy Sue Got Married (Kathleen Turner) PG13
October Sky (Chris Cooper) PG
Quiz Show (John Turturro) PG13
West Side Story (Natalie Wood) Unrated
Driving Miss Daisy, (Morgan Freeman) PG
Avalon (Leo Fuchs) PG
Sandlot, The (James Earl Jones) PG
Stand By Me (River Phoenix) R
Outsiders, The (C. Thomas Howell) PG
Radio (Cuba Gooding Jr.) PG
Korean War
Pork Chop Hill (Gregory Peck) Unrated
MASH (Donald Southerland) R
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (William Holden) Unrated
MacArthur (Gregory Peck) PG
Vietnam War
We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson) R
Platoon (Charlie Sheen) R
Green Berets, The (John Wayne) G
Apocalypse Now (Martin Sheen) R
Full Metal Jacket (Matthew Modine) R
Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams) R
Deer Hunter, The (Robert De Niro) R
Born of the Fourth of July (Tom Cruise) R
Casualties of War (Sean Penn) R
The 1960s
61 (Scott Connell) TV
'60s, The (David Alan Grier) PG13
Thirteen Days (Kevin Costner) PG13
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) PG13
Brian’s Song (Billy Dee Williams) G
That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks) PG
JFK (Kevin Costner) R
Doors, The (Val Kilmer) R
Almost Famous (Billy Crudup) R
Civil Rights
Beloved (Oprah Winfrey) R
The Color Purple (Danny Glover) PG13
To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck) Unrated
Freedom Song (Danny Glover) PG
Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) PG13
Long Walk Home, The (Whoopi Goldberg) PG
Ruby Bridges (Michael Beach) G
Separate but Equal (Sidney Poitier) PG
Remember the Titans (Denzel Washington) PG
Amistad (Morgan Freeman) R
A Soldier’s Story (Adolph Caesar) PG
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Cicely Tyson) TV
Crazy in Alabama (Meatloaf) PG13
The 1970s
Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks) PG
All the President’s Men (Dustin Hoffman) PG
Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) R
Dazed and Confused (Jason London) R
Summer of Sam, The (John Leguizamo) R
Ali (Will Smith) R
Detroit Rock City (Edward Furlong) R
Extremely Goofy Movie, An (Bill Farmer) G
Girl Who Spelled Freedom, The (Wayne Rogers) TV
Good Fences (Danny Glover) R
Kent State (Charley Lang) TV
Moonlight Mile (Dustin Hoffman) PG13
Patty Hurst (Ving Rhames) R
Hoffa (Jack Nicholson) R
Jacksons: An American Dream, The (Lawrence Hilton Jacobs)
Thunderheart (Val Kilmer) R