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A look at the real life WWII hero Desmond Doss.
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A fictional story, but gives us a great opportunity to discuss D-Day and the end of the European theater of WWII.
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The story behind the most iconic photograph in American military history.
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Iconic best picture winner about US general George Patton. He was a big personality and often his own worst enemy.
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A look at the home front during World War II. While the characters here are fictitious, the league and the teams shown were real.
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A very detailed look at the lead up to the attack on Pearl Harbor from both the American and Japanese perspective.
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Martin Scorsese’s biopic of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.
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As we prepare for World War II, we look at the life of Charlie Chaplin and discuss his lampooning of Adolf Hitler in The Great Dictator.
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Based on John Steinbeck’s novel of Oklahoma farmers moving to California during the Great Depression.
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A bit too Hollywood, but this film gives a good look at the career of James Braddock and the Great Depression.
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An almost-entirely fictionalized account of Elliot Ness and his quest to bring down Al Capone.
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We use these fictional stories to highlight Hollywood’s transition from the Silent Era to Talkies. The Jazz Singer (1927) comes up as well.
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Martin Scorsese’s telling of the real-life murders in the Osage communities of 1920s Oklahoma.
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Great look at the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal. We discuss what they got right and wrong and look a little deeper at some of the key figures.
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A look (though perhaps a boring one) into the lives of American radicals in the 1910s.
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The real story of Alvin York isn’t quite what we see in this film led by Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning performance.
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The story of perhaps the greatest athlete of all-time. Thorpe is probably best-known for winning the first-ever pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.
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Based on the largely fictional novel by E.L. Doctorow, there are a handful of historical characters who also feature in this story set in the early 20th century.
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Based very loosely on the real-life Perdicaris Affair of 1904. Teddy Roosevelt takes action to liberate an American expat who is kidnapped in Morocco.
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This TV movie follows the Wright Brothers’ attempt to create the world’s first powered flying machine. Don’t watch it. Listen to us instead.
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