REEL MOVIES!!!

Pardon the pun. Couldn't resist.

Seriously, the following is a list of high-quality, high-interest films that you may actually enjoy watching, that will help deepen your understanding of US History.

Movies!
17th C
The Crucible Puritans
18th C
Last of the Mohicans French & Indian War
19th C
Amistad 1839 Slave Ship Uprising & Trial –really violent beginning
(Spielberg dir; A. Hopkins as JQ Adams)
The Alamo
Gone With The Wind Antebellum & Civil War South (produced in 39)
Gangs of New York Civil War era, but cities & immigrants (L. DiCaprio)
Glory 54th Mass. Regiment African-Americans in Civil War
(D. Washington, M. Freeman, & M. Broderick)
Far & Away Immigration (Cruise & Kidman)
Wizard of Oz The Allegory!
The Molly Maguires Miners Strike (produced in 70; Sean Connery)
20th C
Inherit the Wind Scopes Monkey Trial of the 20’s (produced in 60)
Tora, Tora, Tora Pearl Harbor –much better than Affleck’s trite!!
Band of Brothers 101st Airborne of WW2; the BEST thing EVER on tv -no bias here☺; History Channel is re-airing
The Right Stuff 50’s Cold War & beginning space race
October Sky Post Sputnik: Boy meets Rocketry
The Majestic Hollywood Blacklisting post WW2/McCarthyism (Jim Carey)
Pleasantville Oh, those 50’s!
Mississippi Burning Civil Rights (G. Hackman, W. DeFoe)
A Time to Kill Civil Rights (M. McConaughey; S. Bullock)
Malcolm X Really powerful bio (D. Washington is amazing)
Forest Gump Everybody should see Hanks as the lovable Gump –50s thru 80s
Platoon Vietnam (W. DaFoe, C. Sheen)
Good Morning Vietnam Robin Williams in Vietnam
All The President’s Men Watergate (produced in 76)
American History X Skinheads –really strong & powerful on contemporary racism; not a nice movie, but an excellent one.
Note: Many are rated R for violence and/or language