Films for Social History 178

 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: A Mighty Wind, Chicago, Gangs of New York, Hurricane, The Insider, Metropolis
Age of Innocence, The (1993)
All the President's Men (1976)
American Graffiti (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Attica (1980 TV)
Bamboozled (2000) and notes
Barbarians at the Gate (1993 TV)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Blast from the Past (1999) and notes
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Bound for Glory (1976) and notes
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Captain Blood (1935) and notes
Casablanca (1942) and notes
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Chicago (2002) and notes
China Syndrome (1979) and notes
Citizen Kane (1941)
Color Purple, The (1985)
Comrade X (1940)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cotton Club, The (1984)
Cradle Will Rock (1999) and notes
Crimson Tide (1995)
Day After Trinity (1980)
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Dillinger (1991) (TV)
Dish, The (2000) and notes
Dr. Strangelove (1963)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Duck Soup (1933) and notes
Eight Men Out (1988)
Endurance (2001) and notes
Exodus (1960)
Fail-Safe (1964, 2000 TV) and notes
Far and Away (1992)
Far Horizons, The (1955)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
FBI Story, The (1959)
Fighting Seabees (1944) and notes
Flight of the Intruder (1990))
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) and notes
Formula (1980) and notes
Francis Gary Powers (1976 TV) and notes
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Gangs of New York (2002) and notes
George Wallace (1997 TV)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1997)
Glenn Miller Story (1954) and notes
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Great War, The (1996 TV documentary series) and notes
Green Mile, The (1999) and notes
Hester Street (1975)
Hindenburg, The (1975)
Hoffa (1992)
Hurricane (1999)
In Love and War (1996)
Inherit the Wind (1960) and notes
Inherit the Wind (1988) and notes
Insider, The (1999) and notes
Intolerance (1916)
Jazz Singer (1927) and notes
Jesse Owens Story, The (1984) (TV)
Jim Thorpe - All American (1951) and notes
Josephine Baker Story, The (1991) (TV)
Juarez (1939)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Killing Fields, The (1984)
King Kong (1933) and notes
Last Emperor, The (1987)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
League of Their Own, A (1992)
Manchurian Candidate (1962) and notes
Mark of Zorro (1920) and notes
Mask of Zorro (1998) and notes
Matewan (1987)
McConnell Story, The (1955)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Metropolis (1926) and notes
Mighty Wind, A (2003) and notes
Mission to Moscow (1943) and notes
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Molly Maguires (1970) and notes
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
My Darling Clementine (1946) and notes
Network (1976)
Nixon (1995) and notes
October Sky (1999)
On the Waterfront (1954) and notes
Outsider (1961) and notes
Panama Deception (1992 documentary) and notes
Paths of Glory (1957)
Primary Colors (1998)
Quiz Show (1994)
Ragtime (1981)
Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Reds (1981)
Remember the Titans (2000) and notes
Richard III (1996) and web site
Road to Wellville (1994) and notes
Rosewood (1997) and notes
Running Brave (1983) and notes
Saboteur (1942)
Salt of the Earth (1953)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998) and notes
Schindler's List (1993)
Sergeant York (1941) and notes
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The (1939)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here (1969)
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
Thin Red Line (1999)
Thirteen Days (2000) and notes
Titanic (1997) and notes
Tombstone (1993)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Why We Fight (1942-45) and notes
Wyatt Earp (1994)
West, The (premiered on PBS Sep. 15, 1996) and the PBS web site
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) and notes
Wilson (1944) and notes
Winds of War (1981) and War and Remembrance (1985)
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