Films for Mass Media History

 Any of these films may be viewed for extra credit. Read the Filmguide for instructions on how to write the report and the History on Film bibliography for resources.


Recent releases: Good Night, and Good Luck. War of the Worlds, And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself, Seabiscuit,
All the President's Men (1976) - notes
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003 on HBO) - notes
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bamboozled (2000) - notes
Battle of Midway, The (1942)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Birth of a Nation (1915) - notes
Blade Runner (1982) - notes
Bound for Glory (1976) - notes
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920) - notes
Casablanca (1942) - notes
Compulsion (1960)
Comrade X (1940)
Cradle Will Rock (1999) - notes
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - notes
Foreign Correspondent (1940) - notes
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1997)
Glenn Miller Story (1954) - notes
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) - notes
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
How the West Was Won (1962) - notes
Image of an Assassination (1998) - notes
Insider, The (1999) and notes
Intolerance (1916)
Jazz Singer (1927) - notes
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Meet John Doe (1939)
Memphis Belle, The (1944) - notes
Metropolis (1926) - notes
Mighty Wind, A (2003) - notes
Mission to Moscow (1943) - notes
Mr. Music (1950) - notes
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mrs. Miniver (1942) - notes
Nanook of the North (1924)
Negro Soldier (1944) - notes
Network (1976)
Nixon (1995) and notes
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) - site and trailer
Panama Deception (1992) - notes
Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) - notes
Quills (2000)
Quiz Show (1994) - notes
Ramparts We Watch (1940) - notes
Reds (1981)
Richard III (1996) and web site
RKO-281 (1985) - notes
Saboteur (1942)
Seabiscuit (2003) - notes
Sergeant York (1941) and notes
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993) (TV)
Touch of Evil (1952)
Triumph of the Will (1934) - notes
Victory at Sea (1952 on NBC) - notes
War of the Worlds (2005) - notes
Why We Fight (1942-45) - notes
Wilson (1944) - notes
Wizard of Oz (1939) - notes
Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) - notes

revised 8/31/05 by Schoenherr