Time Periods and Potential Movies

Colonial America & The American Revolution:

The New World, Desperate Crossing, Plymouth Adventure, Mayflower: The Pilgrims Adventure,

Last of the Mohicans, Roots, Johnny Tremain, George Washington (mini-series), The Crossing, Arnold, The Patriot, A More Perfect Union

The Antebellum Era, Civil War & Reconstruction:

Amistad, 12 Years a Slave, Glory, Gone With the Wind, Gettysburg, Birth of a Nation, Killing Lincoln,

Lincoln, Conspirator

Westward Expansion & The Western Frontier:

The Alamo, They Died with Their Boots On, Son of the Morning Star, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,

Geronimo, I Will Fight No More Forever, Dances with Wolves,The Cowboys, Open Range, High Noon,

Tombstone

The Immigrant Experience, American Expansionism, Industrialization & Women’s Rights:

Far and Away, Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, Modern Times, Rough Riders, Iron Jawed Angels,

Avalon, Matewan

World War I:

Sergeant York, The Lost Battalion, Flyboys

The Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, The Rise of Organized Crime, & The Great Depression:

The Great Gatsby, Wild Boys of the Road, The Grapes of Wrath, Cinderella Man, Seabiscuit,

The Cotton Club, All the King’s Men, Bound For Glory, The Great Debaters, Inherit the Wind,

Bonnie & Clyde, The Purple Gang, TheUntouchables, Public Enemies

World War II:

Race, The Flowers of War, Tora,Tora,Tora, Pearl Harbor, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan,

Flags of Our Fathers, Patton, Letters From Iwo Jima, Windtalkers, A Bridge Too Far, Tuskegee Airmen,

Red Tails, Memphis Belle, The Great Escape, Fat Man & Little Boy, Come See the Paradise,

The Great Raid, Unbroken, Monuments Men, The Emperor, Fury, The Fighting Sullivans, Woman in Gold

The 1950s, The Cold War, McCarthyismThe Space Age:

Truman, The Best Years of Our Lives, Good Night and Good Luck, Thirteen Days, Tucker,

Allan Freed Story, The Good Shepherd, Quiz Show, Guilty by Suspicion, October Sky, The Right Stuff,

Apollo 13

The Civil Rights Movement:

The Jackie Robinson Story, The Express, Separate But Equal, The Ernest Green Story,

The Ruby Bridges Story, King, Wallace, Malcolm X, For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story,

Mississippi Burning, Murder in Mississippi, Glory Road, 42, The Long Walk Home, The Butler, Selma, The Help

The Vietnam War & the 1960s:

We Were Soldiers, Rescue Dawn, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Helter Skelter,

The 60s (mini-series), Killing Kennedy

The 1970s, Watergate & The Nixon Administration:

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, All the President’s Men, Frost/Nixon, Argo, J. Edgar

The 1980s & beyond:

Forrest Gump, The Day Reagan was Shot, Miracle, Foxcatcher, Black Hawk Down, The Big Short, United 93,

Captain Phillips, World Trade Center, Lone Survivor, American Sniper, 13 Hours

Stories of Defying Odds and Success:

Ali, Door to Door, Gifted Hands, Flash of Genius, Ray, Walk the Line, The Fighter, McFarland USA, Joy