Guidelines for the Extra-Credit Historical Movie ReviewAttached Files: HIST1302movielist.docx (111.732 KB) The file is attached below: 1) For the Extra-Credit Historical Movie Review, choose one film
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The Conspirator (2010): the trial of Mary Surratt, one of the accused conspirators in the Lincoln assassination
Hell on Wheels (2011-): AMC series about the construction of the Union Pacific portion of the Transcontinental Railroad (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
Gangs of New York (2002): urban street gangs of New York during the 1860s
Molly Maguires (1970): Irish labor group following the Panic of 1873
Deadwood (2004-2006): Life in the illegal mining settlement of Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
Wyatt Earp (1994): life of western lawman Wyatt Erp, from cowtowns to mining towns
The Searchers (1956): fictional story of a Civil War veteran that returns to Texas to find his niece captured by Comanches and embarks on a long journey to get her back
Lonesome Dove (1989): Cattle drive from Texas to Montana
Dances With Wolves (1990): U.S. soldiers and Native Americans in the West after the Civil War
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993): story of Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apache as they resist the US reservation system
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007): HBO movie, Sioux Wars and Little Big Horn, reservation life, the Ghost Dance, and Wounded Knee
Rough Riders (1997) (TV): story of Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteer regiment during the Spanish-American War
Iron-Jawed Angels (2004): fight for women’s suffrage in the early 1900s
Godfather II (1974): the mafia during the 1920s and 1950s, based on the novel by Mario Puzo
Matewan (1987): 1920 West Virginia mining strike that turned violent
Rosewood (1997): violent lynch mob destroys a black community in the Deep South during the 1920s
Lawless (2012): dramatized version of the Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy, prohibition-era Virginia
J. Edgar (2011): the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014): HBO series based on the illegal alcohol business and organized crime in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the era of National Prohibition (1920-1933) (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
The Untouchables (1987): federal government’s effort to bring down Al Capone
Modern Times (1936): Factory worker cracks under the strain of his job and goes nuts in the streets during the Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath (1940): Oklahoma farmers forced to move to California during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, based on the novel by John Steinbeck
The Great Debaters (2007): A newly formed debate team from Wiley College, a small black college in Marshall, Texas, went on to challenge the Harvard debate team for the 1935 national championship
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970): attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II
Pearl Harbor (2001): attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II
Band of Brothers (2001): HBO miniseries based on Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division in Europe during World War II (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
The Pacific (2010): HBO miniseries based on American Marines in the Pacific during World War II (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
Patton (1970): General George Patton during World War II
Saving Private Ryan (1998): World War II invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and beyond
Fury (2014): American tank crew in Europe during the final months of World War II
Tuskegee Airmen (1995) (HBO TV): African-American pilots in World War II
Red Tails (2012): African-American pilots in World War II
Zoot Suit (1981): A fictionalized version of the Sleepy Lagoon case and the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots during World War II
Hiroshima (1995): the decision to use the atomic bomb during World War II
Emperor (2012): Post-World War II Japan, General Douglas MacArthur orders an investigation to determine if the Emperor of Japan should be tried as a war criminal.
MacArthur (1977): Douglas MacArther during World War II and the Korean War
The Good Shepherd (2006): the early history of the Central Intelligence Agency
Good Night, Good Luck (2005): broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow vs. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Thirteen Days (2000): JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Dr. Strange Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Cold War paranoia erupts into possible nuclear war
Mad Men (2007-2015): AMC series based around an ad agency during the 1960s (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
Malcolm X (1992): life of Malcolm X
Selma (2014): Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1965 march for voting rights in Selma Alabama
Ali (2001): life of boxing legend Mohammad Ali
George Wallace (1997) (TV): Alabama governor George Wallace during the Civil Rights movement
Cesar Chavez (2014): Biographical story of labor leader and civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez
Walkout (2006): East Los Angeles student civil rights protests
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013): The politics and Supreme Court case surrounding Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in the Vietnam War based on his conscientious objection
We Were Soldiers (2002): Battle of Ia Drang during Vietnam War
Platoon (1986): American soldiers during the Vietnam War, based on the real life experiences of director Oliver Stone
All the Presidents Men (1976): journalists who broke the Watergate scandal
Narcos (2015-): Netflix Original Series about Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, cocaine, and the US “War on Drugs” (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
The Americans (2013-): FX series about deep-cover Soviet Agents during the 1980s (WRITE ABOUT 2 OR MORE EPISODES)
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007): The political side of the United States covert activities during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989
Too Big to Fail (2011) (TV): HBO movie chronicling the financial meltdown of 2008, and centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
