American History Through Movies

Film Title 1. 1776 (1972) American History Topic(s) American Revolution Alternate Films Guns Along the Mohawk The Howards of Virginia The Patriot Revolution Amistad Far and Away Glory Little Women Gone with the Wind Intolerance Dances With Wolves Fort Apache High Noon My Darling Clementine Shane Stagecoach The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tombstone Unforgiven America, America Avalon Hester Street Public Enemy All the King's Men (1949 version) City Lights The Grapes of Wrath Ironweed From Here to Eternity The House on 92nd. Street Passage to Marseilles Watch on the Rhine Atomic Cafe Black Rain Day After Trinity Fat Man & Little Boy Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes Truman The Front Guilty by Suspicion Advise and Consent Fail Safe The Manchurian Candidate Seven Days in May The Missiles of October

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Gangs of New York (2002)

Antebellum Era Early Civil War Period The Immigrant Experience Reconstruction The American Frontier Integration of the West into the Capitalist System American Expansion American Exceptionalism

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Birth of a Nation (1915) Red River (1948)

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The Godfather (1972)

The Immigrant Experience The Rise of Organized Crime

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Modern Times (1936)

The Great Depression Dehumanization of Labor

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Casablanca (1942)

American Neutrality Vichy France World War II World War II

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Hiroshima (1995)

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Good Night and Good Luck (2005) Dr. Strangelove (1964)

The McCarthy Era Blacklisting Hollywood and the Cold War The Nuclear Age The Cold War

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Thirteen Days (2000)

Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Kennedy Administration Vietnam War

Born on the Fourth of July The Deer Hunter Fog of War Full Metal Jacket Green Berets Heart of Darkness Path to War Platoon The Ghosts of Mississippi King Mississippi Burning The Rosa Parks Story Nixon

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Malcolm X (1992)

Civil Rights Movement Historical Biography

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All the President's Men (1976) Norma Rae (1979)

Watergate Scandal The Nixon Administration Investigative Journalism Late 20c Union Movement

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Erin Brockovich Matewan Silkwood