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BEST MOVIES &
DOCUMENTARIES FOR WORLD & AMERICAN HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT.
Warning: Some of these movies are rated "R", mostly
because of violence. Parental supervision is
recommended.
WORLD HISTORY
I-ANCIENT HISTORY (FIRST NINE WEEKS)
Prehistory
Quest for Fire (1982) ..1:15...
Everett Mc Gill, Rae Dawn.
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1985) ...1:38... Daryl
Hannah.
Missing Link (1988)...1:30hrs...Peter Elliott
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) ....3h.... Documentary
BBC / Discovery Channel.
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts (2001)...3hrs...Documentary
BBC / Discovery Channel.
Evolution (2002) ...8hrs... PBS Mini Series Narrated by Liam
Neeson.
Walking with Cavemen (2003)...2h...Documentary BBC /
Discovery Channel.
The First Farmers (2003) ...60
minutes......Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
The
End of the Stone Age (2003)...60 minutes...Library Video /
Schlessinger Media.
The First Towns and Villages (2003)...60 minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: A
National Geographic Presentation...(2005)....Part I (55
mins.).....PBS
Documentary.
10,000 B.C. (2008)...1:49hrs...Steven
Strait,
Camilla Belle,
Cliff Curtis.
Egypt
The Egyptian (1954) ...2:20... Jean
Simmons, Victor Mature.
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) ... 1:46 ... Jack Hawkins, Joan
Collins.
Pharaoh (1966) ......... 2:05... Poland ... Dir. Jerzy
Kawalerowicz.
Egypt's Golden Empire (2002)...PBS
Documentary..2:30hrs
Hebrews / Judaism
Samson and Delilah
(1949)...1:30hrs...Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature.
David and Bathsheba (1951) ... 2h ... Gregory Peck, Susan
Hayward.
The Ten Commandments (1956) ....3:40... Charlton Heston.
Solomon and Sheba (1959) 2:19 Yul Brynner, Gina
Lollobrigida.
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) ..2h... Stewart Granger.
Moses (1975) (1996) ... 2:21 / 3:10hrs ... Burt Lancaster,
Anthony Qualye / Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee.
The Story of David (1976) ... 4:17.. Anthony Qualye, Timothy
Bottoms.
Masada (1981) ...2:10.... Peter O’Toole.
King David (1985) ..2h... Richard Gere.
Abraham (1994) TV Mini Series..3h... Richard Harris.
In the Beginning (2000) ...3:00... Martin Landau, Jacqueline
Bisset.
Religions of the World: Judaism (2002)...50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
Kingdom of David. The Saga of the Israelites. (2005)...4
hrs. PBS Documentary. By
Mitch Wilson.
Greece
Helen of Troy (1955) (2003)..2:21/
3hs.. Stanley Baker, Rossana Podesta / Mini Series James
Callis, Sienna Guillory
Ulysses (1955) 1:44.. Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano.
Alexander the Great (1955) ...2:15..... Richard Burton.
Oedipus Rex
(1957)...Naomi
Cameron, Douglas Campbell.
The Colossus of Rhodes (1960) ...2h... Dir. Sergio
Leone.
Antigoni (1961)...1:33hrs...Irene Papas
The 300 Spartans (1962)...2hs....Richard Egan, Ralph
Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe.
Electra (1962)...1:50hrs...Irene Papas.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (2000)..2h/3hs... Todd
Armstrong / Mini Series Jason London.
Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (1965)...1:30hrs...Kirk Morris,
Richard Lloyd, Enzo Cerusico.
Medea (1969)...1:49hrs...Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile.
The Trojan Women (1971)..1:45hrs...Katharine Hepburn,
Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas.
Clash of the Titans (1981) 2h Harry Hamlin, Claire
Bloom.
The Odyssey (1997) TV Mini Series ...6h... Armand
Assante.
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000) (TV)...PBS
Documentary....2:30hrs.
Gods and Goddesses (2001)...History Channel
Documentary...1:40hrs.
The Spartans (2004)...3hrs...Mini Series PBS Documentary
Troy (2004)...2:45hrs...Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom,
Diane Kruger, Peter O'Toole.
Alexander (2004)...2:53hs...Colin Farrell, Jared Leto,
Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer.
300 (2006)...1:31hrs...Gerard
Butler,
Lena
Headey,
Dominic
West,
David
Wenham,
Vincent
Regan.
Rome
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
(1984)...1:36/4:05 ... Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone /
Nicholas Clay, Duncan Regehr
Quo Vadis? (1951) ...2:51hs.... Robert Taylor, Deborah
Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn.
The Robe (1953) ...2h.... Richard Burton, Jean Simmons.
Julius Caesar (1953) (1970) (2002).....2hs / 2hs / 3hs...
Marlon Brando , James Mason / Charlton Heston, R.
Chamberlain / Mini Series TNT...Jeremy Sisto, Chris Noth,
Richard Harris.
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) 1:40 Victor Mature.
Attila (1958) (2001)...1:15/3hs...Anthony Quinn, Sophia
Loren / Mini Series Powers Booth, Simmone J. Mackinnon.
Ben Hur (1959) ..2:32... Charlton Heston, Hugh
Griffith.
Spartacus (1960) / (2004)
...2h / 3hrs.... Kirk Douglas and Laurence Oliver / Mini
Series: Goran Visnjic, George Calil.
Hannibal (1960) ...1:43.... Victor Mature and Rita Gam.
King of Kings (1961)...2:45hrs...Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan
McKenna, Robert
Ryan.
Cleopatra (1963) ..4h....
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) ...2h.... S. Loren, A.
Guinness.
The Greatest Story ever Told (1965)...3:20...Max von Sydow,
Charlton Heston, Van Heflin.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) ... 6:18...Robert Powell, James
Mason.
I, Claudius (1980) TV Mini Series ..14h... Derek Jacobi.
Peter and Paul (1981) ... 3:33 ... Anthony Hopkins, Robert
Foxworth.
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1998)...4
hrs....PBS Documentary.....Dir.
William
Cran.
Rome: Power & Glory
(1999)....Documentary....6hrs....Peter Coyote.
Gladiator (2000) ...2h... Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Druids (2001) ...2Hs... Christopher Lambert.
The Roman Empire in the First Century (2001) ...4hrs...PBS
Mini Series
Boudica (2003)...1:30...Alex Kingston, Hugo Speer, Steven
Waddington.
Imperium: Augustus (2003)...3:20hrs...Peter O'Toole,
Charlotte Rampling.
The Passion of the Christ (2004) ...2:07hrs...James
Caviezel, Monica Bellucci.
Rome (2005-07) HBO Series...Kevin
McKidd,
Ray
Stevenson,
Ciarán
Hinds,
James
Purefoy.
Classified (M.A.)
-Explicit Sex
Hannibal:
Rome's Worst Nightmare (2006)...1:30hrs...Alexander
Siddig,
Emilio Doorgasingh,
Mido Hamada,
Shaun Dingwall
II-MEDIEVAL HISTORY (SECOND NINE WEEKS)
Medieval Europe
The Crusades (1935) ...2:05... Henry
Wilcoxon, Loretta Young
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ....1:42.. Errol
Flynn.
Alexander Nevsky (1938) ....1:47h..... Russian .... Sergei
Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible Part I (1943), Part II (1946)
...Russian... Sergei Eisenstein
Henry V (1944) / (1989) ....2h..... Laurence Olivier /
Kenneth Branagh.
Joan of Arc (1948) (1999) ....1:40/4hs....Ingrid Berman /
Mini Series Lelee Sobieski.
Ivanhoe (1952) (1982) (1997)...1:46 / 2:20hrs / 5hrs....
Robert Taylor, Liz Taylor / Anthony Andrews / Steven
Waddington
Knights of the Round Table (1953) ...2h....Robert Taylor,
Ava Gardner
Prince Valiant (1954) ...1:40.... James Mason.
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) ...1:30... Tony
Curtis
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) ....1:42....Robert
Taylor, Key Kendall
The Vikings (1958) ...2h... Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis.
The Last of the Vikings (1961) ...1:30... Cameron Mitchell ,
Edmund Purdom
El Cid (1961) ....3h.... Charlton Heston and Sophia
Loren.
Fury of the Vikings (1963) ...1:40... Cameron Mitchell
Becket (1964) ... 2:28 ... Richard Burton, Peter
O'Toole.
The War Lord (1965) ... 2:03 ... Charlton Heston Rosemary
Forsyth.
Camelot (1967) ...3hs... Richard Harris, Franco Nero,
Vanessa Redgrave
The Lion in Winter (1968) / (2003)... 2:15 / 2:33hrs...
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn / Patrick Stewart, Glenn
Close.
Andrei Rublyov (1969)...3:25...Russia...Anatoli Solonitsyn,
Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
(1972)...2hrs...Graham
Faulkner,
Judi
Bowker,
Leigh
Lawson.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) ...1:30hrs...Graham
Chapman, John Cleese.
Robin and Marian (1976) ...1:47..... Sean O'Connery.
Excalibur (1981) ...2:20.... Nicol Williamson, Nigel
Terry.
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre)
(1982)...2hrs...France...Gérard Depardieu.
Ladyhawke (1985) ...2h.... Matthew Broderick.
The Name of the Rose (1986)...2:10...Sean Connery, F. Murray
Abraham, Christian Slater.
Lionheart (1987)...1:44...Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola
Cowper.
Le Moine et la Sorcière (The Sorceress)
(1987)...1:40hrs...France...Tchéky Karyo, Christine
Boisson.
Stealing Heaven (1988)...1:50hrs...Derek de Lint, Kim
Thomson, Denholm Elliott.
Francesco (1989)...2hrs....Italy...Mickey Rourke, Helena
Bonham Carter.
Hamlet (1990) ...2:15..... Mel Gibson.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) ...2:24.... Kevin
Costner.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) ....1:37.... Lance
Henriksen, Rona De Ricci
Knights and Armor
(1994)...1:07hrs...Documentary...A&E
Crusades (1995) TV Documentary A&E .... 3:20
Charlemagne (1995) TV Documentary ...5h.... Christian
Brendel.
Braveheart (1995) ...3h.... Mel Gibson.
First Knight (1995) ...2:12.... Richard Gere, Sean
O'Connery.
Dragonheart (1996) ...1:50.... Dennis Quaid.
Byzantium: The Lost Empire (1997) ....3:20....Documentary...
Discovery Channel.....John Romer.
Merlin (1998) TV Mini Series....3h.... Sam Neill.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) ...2h... M.
Jovovich, D. Hoffman.
The Knights Templar (2000)...2hrs...Documentary...Bfs
Entertainment
A Knight's Tale (2001) ...2:15... Heath Ledger.
The Mists of Avalon (2001)...3hrs...Anjelica Huston,
Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen.
Crusaders (2001)...3:07hrs...Italy...Alessandro
Gassman,
Johannes Brandrup,
Thure Riefenstein,
Karin Proia.
The Byzantine Empire (2002)...30
minutes...Documentary...Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
Barbarians (2003)...3:20hrs...Documentary...A & E,
History Channel. (Huns, Goths, Vikings, Mongols)
Secrets of the Dark Ages
(2003)..2:28hrs....Documentary...Bfs Entertainment...(Huns,
Goths, Vikings, Vandals).
Religions of the World:
Orthodox
and Roman Catholic
Christianity
(2003)...Docum....50 min.
Schlessinger Media.
King Arthur (2004)...2hrs...Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane,
Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)...2:25hrs...Martin
Hancock,
Michael
Sheen,
Orlando
Bloom,
Liam
Neeson.
Holy Warriors:
Richard the Lionheart
& Saladin (2005)...2
hrs...PBS Documentary.
Tristan and Isolde (2006)...2:05hrs...James
Franco,
Sophia
Myles,
Rufus
Sewell.
Mongol (2007)...2hrs...Russia / Mongolia...Aliya,
Tegen Ao,
Tadanobu Asano,
Ying Bai.
Islamic
World
The Seven Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
....1:30... Kervin
Matthew.
El Naser Salah
el Dine (Saladin) (1963)...3hrs...Egypt...Ahmed Mazhar.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
(1973) ...1:45.... John Phillip Law.
Mohammed: Messenger of God (or The Message) (1976) ...3h...
Anthony Quinn.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)...2hs...Patrick
Wayne
Islam, Empire of Faith (2000) ...3hrs.... PBS Mini
Series.
The Arabian Nights (2000) ....3hs... Mili Avital.
Religions of the World: Islam (2003)...Documentary....50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
India, China,
Japan
Rashomon (1951) ....Japanese ...2h....
Toshiro Mifune.
The Golden Horde (1951) ....1:16.... Ann Blyth, Marvin
Miller.
The Seven Samurai (1954) ...Japanese ....2h.... Toshiro
Mifune.
The Conqueror (1956)..1:40hrs...John Wayne, Susan Hayward,
Pedro Armendáriz.
The Mongols (1960) ...1:30... Jack Palance
Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo (1970) ...Japan.... ...2h... Toshiro
Mifune.
36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) .....1:55hrs.....Billy Chan,
Lung Chan, John Cheung.
Ran (1985) ...Japanese ...2:40..... Dir. Akira Kurosawa.
The Silk Road (1988) ...1:40..... Chinese ...... Koichi
Sato.
Little Buddha (1993) ...2:20..... Keanu Reeves, Ruocheng
Ying.
The Emperor's Shadow
(1996)...2hrs...China...You
Ge,
Wen
Jiang
The Emperor and the Assassin
(1998)...2:42hrs...China...Li
Gong,
Fengyi
Zhang,
Zhou
Sun.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) ...2hrs...Yun-Fat
Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang.
Asoka (2001)...2:30hrs...India...Shahrukh Khan, Kareena
Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa.
Hero...(2002)...1:40hrs...Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai,
Maggie Cheung.
Religions of the World: Hinduism (2003)...Documentary....50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
Religions of the World:
Buddhism (2003)...Documentary....50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
Religions of the World:
Confucianism and Taoism (2003)...Documentary....50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
House of the Flying Daggers
(2005)...2hrs...China...Takeshi
Kaneshiro,
Andy
Lau.
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)...1:54hrs...Yun-Fat
Chow,
Li Gong,
Jay Chou,
Ye Liu.
III- MODERN HISTORY (THIRD NINE WEEKS)
Renaissance,
Discovery, Reformation and Religious Wars
(1400's-1600's)
The Private Life of Henry VIII
(1933)...1:37...Charles Laughton
Captain Blood (1935) ...1:39..... Errol Flynn.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)...1:46...
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn.
The Sea Hawk (1940) ..2:08..... Errol Flynn.
Against All the Flags (1952) ..1:23..... Errol Flynn.
Young Bess (1953)...1:52hs...Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger,
Deborah Kerr, Charles Loughton.
Martin Luther (1953) ...1:45...Niall MacGinnis, John
Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre.
The Black Swan (1955) ...1:24.... Tyrone Power.
Seven Seas to Calais (1963) ...1:42...Rod Taylor, Keith
Mitchell.
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
...2:18... Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison.
A Man of All Seasons (1966) ... 2h ... Paul Scofield, Robert
Shaw, Orson Welles
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)...2hs...Robert Shaw,
Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport.
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) ..2:25.. Richard
Burton.
The Last Valley (1971)...2:05...Michael Caine, Omar Sharif,
Florinda Bolkan.
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) ....2h.... Vanessa Redgrave,
Glenda Jackson
Elizabeth R (1971) (Mini-Series)...6 Episodes of 1:30hrs
each...Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Agruirre, the Wrath of God) (1973)
...1:40hrs...Germany...Klaus Kinski.
Galileo (1975) ...2:25...Topol,
Luther (1976) (2003)...1:52./ 2hs... Stacy Keach and Patrick
Magee / Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina.
Roots (1977) TV Mini Series ..6h.... Dir. David Greene.
Shogun (1980) ..2h.... Richard Chamberlain.
Marco Polo (1982) NBC Mini Series..8hrs... Ken
Marshall, John
Houseman,
John
Gielgud, Burt
Lancaster, Leonard
Nimoy
Christopher Columbus (1985)...2hrs...Gabriel Byrne, Rossano
Brazzi, Virna Lisi.
The Mission (1986) ...2h... Robert De Niro.
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)...2:35hrs...Gérard
Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver.
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)..2h...George
Corraface,
Marlon
Brando,
Tom
Selleck,
Catherine
Zeta-Jones.
Nostradamus (1994)...2hrs...Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray
Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer.
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1994)
...2:40hrs...France...Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil.
Dangerous Beauty (1998)...Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell,
Oliver Platt.
Elizabeth (1998) .... 2h.... Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey
Rush.
La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest)
(1998)...1:45hrs...Mexico...Damián Delgado,
José Carlos Rodríguez, Iñaki
Aierra.
Shakespeare in Love
(1998)...2:03hrs...Joseph
Fiennes,
Gwyneth
Paltrow,
Geoffrey
Rush,
Tom
Wilkinson,
Judi
Dench.
Juana la Loca (Mad Love) (2001)...2hrs...Spain...Pilar
López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Rosana Pastor.
Secret Passage (2002) ...2hrs...John Turturro.
Religions of the World:
Protestant
Christianity
(2003)...Documentary....50
minutes...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
Renaissance for Students (2004)....5 DVDs 23 minutes
each...Library Video / Schlessinger Media.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: A
National Geographic Presentation...(2005)....Part II (55
mins.).....PBS Documentary.
Elizabeth I (2005)
(TV)...3:40hrs..HBO Mini Series...Helen
Mirren,
Jeremy
Irons,
Patrick
Malahide,
Barbara
Flynn.
Apocalypto (2006)...2hrs...Rudy
Youngblood,
Dalia
Hernandez,
Jonathan
Brewer,
Carlos Emilio
Baez.
The Tudors (2007) 10 Episodes 1hr each...Showtime Series...Jonathan
Rhys Meyers,
Sam
Neill.
(M.A.) -Explicit Sex
Moliere (2007)...France...2hrs....Romain
Duris,
Fabrice Luchini,
Laura Morante.
Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007)...1:54hrs...Cate
Blanchett,
Geoffrey Rush,
Clive Owen,
Susan Lynch.
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)...1:55hrs...Natalie
Portman,
Scarlett Johansson,
Eric Bana.
Europe
(1600's-1700's): Absolutism and Enlightenment.
Voltaire
(1933)
/ (1978)...1:12hrs / Mini Series
5:30hrs...George
Arliss /
Denis
Manuel.
Queen Christina (1933)...1:37hrs...Greta Garbo, John
Gilbert, Ian Keith.
Rembrandt (1936) (1999)...1:30-hrs / 1:43hrs...USA /
France...Charles Loughton / Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Tom Jones (1963)...2hrs...Albert Finney.
Cromwell (1970)...2:25hrs...Richard Harris, Alec
Guinness.
Barry Lyndon (1975) ...3hs...Ryan O'Neal, Marisa
Berenson.
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)...1:40hrs...Anthony
Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert.
By the Sword Divided (1983) (Mini-Series)...20 Episodes of
50 min. each...Jeremy Clyde, Peter Jeffrey.
Amadeus (1984)...2:40...F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce.
Lady Jane (1986)...2:20hrs...Helena Bonham Carter, Cary
Elwes, John Wood, Warren Saire.
Peter the Great (1986) TV Mini Series..6:20...
Maximilian
Schell, Laurence Oliver,
Vanessa
Redgrave,
Omar
Sharif.
Caravaggio (1986)...1:30hrs...Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher ,
Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) ...2:18..... France...Gerard
Depardieu.
The Three Musketeers (1993) ....1:45..... Charlie Sheen.
The Madness of King George (1994) ...2h.... Nigel
Hawthorne.
Restoration (1995)...2hrs...Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill,
Polly Walker.
Rob Roy (1995) ... 2:19 ... Liam Neeson, John Hurt.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) (Mini
Series 220 min.)...James Bowers, Alex Kingston.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) ...2:12.... Leonardo
DiCaprio.
Vanity Fair (1998) (Mini-Series 6 Episodes of 50 min.
each)...Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Frances Grey.
Aristocrats (1999) (Mini-Series 6 Episodes of 50 min. each)
Serena Gordon, Alun Armstrong, Geraldine Somerville.
The Age of Enlightenment (2000)...50
minutes...Documentary......Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
Lorna Doone (2000) (TV)...3hrs...Martin Clunes, Richard
Coyle, Amelia Warner, Aidan Gillen.
Vatel (2000)...1:50...France...Gérard Depardieu, Uma
Thurman.
Catherine the Great (2001) ...1:40 ... Catherine
Zeta-Jones
Longitude (2000) (Mini-Series)...3:20hrs...Jonathan Coy,
Christopher Hodsol.
Russian Ark (2002)...1:36hrs...Russia...Sergei Dontsov,
Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy.
To Kill a King (2003)...1:50...Tim Roth, Dougray Scott,
Olivia Williams.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)...1:35...Scarlett
Johansson, Colin Firth.
Russia: Land of the Tsars
(2003)...3:20hrs...Documentary...A&E...History
Channel.
Charles II: The Power & the Passion / The Last King
(2003) ...(A&E Mini Series)...3:10hrs...Rufus Sewell,
Rupert Graves.
Casanova (2005)...1:48hrs...Heath
Ledger.
Age of
Revolutions, Napoleonic Wars, End of Slave Trade and beyond
(1789-1850).
Les Misérables
(1935) (2000)...2hrs / 6hrs (Mini-Series) ...Fredric March,
Charles Laughton / Gérard
Depardieu.
Marie Antoinette (1938) (2006) ...2:29 / 2:03hrs... Norma
Shearer, Tyrone Power /
Kirsten
Dunst,
Jason
Schwartzman.
Wuthering
Heights (1939) (1992)...1:43 / 1:45...Merle Oberon, Laurence
Olivier / Juliette Binoche, Ralph
Fiennes.
Scaramouche (1952) ...2hs...Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker,
Mel Ferrer
Napoleon (1955) / (2000) / (2002) ...2hs / 3hs / 3hs.....
Raymond Pellegrin, Orson Welles / PBS Documentary Mini
Series Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini.
The Naked Maja (1959)...1:51hrs...Ava
Gardner,
Anthony
Franciosa.
Les Mystères de Paris (1962)...France...Jean
Marais.
Cartouche (1962)...2hrs...France...Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Claudia Cardinale.
The Black Tulip (1964) ...France....2h..... Alain Delon.
La Religieuse (The Nun) (1966)....2:15...France...Anna
Karina, Liselotte Pulver.
War and Peace (1968) / (1996) Russian...6hs / BBC TV
Series...12:30hs.
Rose rosse per Angelica (The Adventurer of the Red Rose
(1968)...1:50hrs...Italy...Jacques Perrin, Raffaella
Carrà.
Waterloo (1971) ...2h..... Rod Steiger, Orson Welles
The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) (TV) / (2002)....2hrs /
2:11 ...Richard Chamberlain / James Caviezel.
A Tale of Two Cities (1989)...3:10...Mini-Series...James
Wilby, Xavier Deluc.
Danton (1982) ...France/Poland... ...2:16.... Dir. Andrzej
Wajda.
La Nuit de Varennes (1982) ...2:30...France...Jean-Louis
Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) (1999)...2:20/4:30hrs...Anthony
Andrews, Jane Seymour/Richard Grant, Elizabeth McGovern.
Valmont (1989)...2:20...Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg
Tilly.
Immortal Beloved (1994)...2hrs...Gary Oldman, Jeroen
Krabbé.
Jefferson in Paris (1995) ...2:16..... Nick Nolte
Ridicule (1996)...1:42hrs...France...Charles Berling, Jean
Rochefort, Fanny Ardant.
Goya (1999)...1:50hrs...Francisco Rabal, José
Coronado, Dafne Fernández.
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) ...2hrs...Hilary Swank,
Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker.
L' Anglaise et le Duc (The Lady and the Duke)
(2001)....2:10hrs...France...Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Lucy
Russell, Alain Libolt.
Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures
(2002)...A&E Series...10hrs...Ioan Gruffudd
I Remember Nelson (2002)...Mini Series...4hrs...Goldhil Home
Media I...Kenneth Colley, Anna Massey, Geraldine James.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
...2:20hrs...Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy.
The French Revolution (2005).. 23 minutes
...Documentary......Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
The French Revolution
(2005)...1:40hrs...Documentary....History Channel.
Amazing Grace
(2006)...1:51hrs....Ioan
Gruffudd,
Albert
Finney,
Rufus
Sewell,
Ciarán
Hinds.
Goya's Ghosts (2006)...1:53...Stellan
Skarsgård,
Natalie Portman,
Javier Bardem,
Randy Quaid.
1800-1914: Science,
Industrial Revolution, Victorian Era, Nationalism, and
more.
The Story of Louis
Pasteur (1935)...1:30...Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson.
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)....2hrs...Paul Muni, Gale
Sondergaard.
How Green Was
My Valley (1941)...2hrs...Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara,
Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood.
Madame Curie (1943)...2hrs..Greer Garson, Walter
Pidgeon.
Oliver Twist (1948) (2005) ... 1:45hrs / 2:10hrs ... Alec
Guinness, John Howard Davies /
Ben
Kingsley,
Barney
Clark.
Beau Brummell
(1954)...1:53hrs...Stewart
Granger,
Elizabeth
Taylor,
Peter
Ustinov.
Sissi (Elisabeth,
Empress of Austria)
(1955), Sissi Empress (1956), Sissi, Queen of
Hungary (1957) ... Romy Schneider.
A Night to Remember (1958)...2hrs...Kenneth More, David
McCallum
Viva l'Italia! (Garibaldi) (1961)...2:20hrs...Italy...Renzo
Ricci.
Freud (1962) / (1984)...2:20hrs / 3hrs....Montgomery Clift /
David Suchet.
The Leopard
(1963)....3:05hrs...Burt
Lancaster,
Claudia
Cardinale,
Alain
Delon.
Young Winston (1972)...2hrs...Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft,
Simon Ward.
Fall of Eagles (1974)...10:50hrs...BBC Mini Series...Patrick
Stewart, John Rhys, Gemma Jones.
Eduard Munch (1973) ...3hrs...Geir
Westby,
Gro
Fraas,
Kerstii
Allum,
Eric Allum,
Susan Troldmyr.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...1:55hrs...Rachel Roberts,
Vivean Gray, Helen Morse.
Edward the King (1975) (Mini-Series 13 Episodes of 50 min.
each)...Timothy West, Annette Crosbie.
Disraeli (1979) (Mini-Series 4 Episodes of 60 min.
each)...Ian McShane, Mary Peach, Antony Brown.
Tess (1979)...3:10...Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh
Lawson.
Karl Marx: The Early Years (1979)
(Mini-Series)...Russia...Lev Kulidzhanov.
The Elephant Man (1980)...2hrs...Anthony Hopkins, John
Hurt.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) ...2:10hrs...Meryl
Streep, Jeremy Irons.
Bleak House (1985) (Mini-Series)...6:30hrs...Diana Rigg,
Denholm Elliott, Philip Franks.
Maurice (1987)...2:20...James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert
Graves.
The Last Emperor (1987)...2:40...John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter
O'Toole.
Sense and Sensibility (1995)...2:16hrs...James Fleet, Emma
Thompson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet.
Jack the Riper (1988)...3:20...Michael Caine, Armand
Assante.
Little Dorrit (1988) (Mini-Series)...6hrs...Alec Guinness,
Derek Jacobi.
Howards End (1992) ...2:20...Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony
Hopkins.
Raise
the Red Lantern
(1991)...2:05hrs...China...Li
Gong,
Caifei
He
Germinal (1993)...3hrs...France...
Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Judith Henry.
Hard Times (1994) (TV)....1:40...Harriet Walter, Bill
Paterson, Alex Jennings.
Bramwell (1995) Mini-Series...7 hrs...Jemma Redgrave, David
Calder.
Mrs. Brown (1997)...1:45...Judi Dench, Billy Connolly,
Geoffrey Palmer.
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)...2:12...Ralph Fiennes, Cate
Blanchett.
The Mill on the Floss (1997)...1:30hrs... Emily Watson, Ifan
Meredith, James Frain.
Titanic (1997) ...3:15hrs...Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet,
Billy Zane.
The Industrial Revolution (1999)...25
minutes...Documentary...Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
Living During the Industrial Revolution (2000)...20
minutes...Documentary...Library
Video / Schlessinger
Media.
LaVeuve de Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre)
(2000)... 1:52hrs...France...Juliette Binoche, Daniel
Auteuil.
From Hell (2001)....2:17hrs...Johnny Depp, Heather
Graham.
Victoria & Albert (2001) (TV Mini-Series) ....3:20
hrs...Victoria Hamilton, Jonathan Firth.
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)...2hrs...Stella Gonet, Andrew
Havill, Charlie Hunnam, Romola Garai.
The Last Samurai (2003) ... 2hs...Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe,
Billy Connolly
Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005)...2:25hrs...Japan...Ziyi
Zhang,
Suzuka
Ohgo
Colonialism &
Imperialism (1850-1914).
The Drum (1938)...1:36...Sabu, Raymond
Massey, Roger Livesey.
Gunga Din
(1939)...1:57hrs...Cary
Grant,
Victor
McLaglen,
Douglas Fairbanks
Jr.,
Sam
Jaffe.
The Four Feathers (1939) (2002)...2:10... John Clements,
Ralph Richardson / Alex Jennings, Kate Hudson.
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
...1:43...Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard
Carlson.
Kim (1950)...1:55hrs...Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul
Lukas, Robert Douglas.
The River (1951) ... 1:40hs...Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight,
Esmond Knight, Suprova Mukerjee
Mogambo (1952) ...1:55hs...Clark
Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden.
Passage to India (1965) (1984) ...1:50hrs / 2:43 ....
Michael
Bates,
Cyril
Cusack
/ Judy Davis, Alec Guinness.
Khartoum (1966) ..2:14.... Charlton Heston.
The Battle of Algiers (1965)...2hs...Jean Martin, Yacef
Saadi
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)...2:25...Trevor
Howard, Vanessa Redgrave
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)...2:10...Sean Connery,
Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer.
Roots (1977) TV Mini Series ..6h.... Dir. David Greene.
Zulu Dawn (1979) ..2h... Burt Lancaster and Peter
O’Toole.
'Breaker' Morant (1980)...1:50hrs...Edward Woodward, Jack
Thompson, John Waters.
Gandhi (1982) ....3:07..... Ben Kingsley.
The Far Pavilions (1984) (Mini-Series 5:20hrs)...Ben Cross,
Amy Irving.
The Jewel in the Crown (1984) (Mini-Series 13 Episodes of 50
min. each)...Peggy Ashcroft, Derrick Branche.
Out of Africa (1985) ..2:30... Meryl Streep and Robert
Redford.
Heart of Darkness (1994) (TV)...1:40hrs...Tim Roth, John
Malkovich.
The Jungle Book (1994)...1:51...Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes,
Lena Headey, Sam Neill
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) ...1:49.... Michael
Douglas, Vil Kilmer.
Michael Collins (1996)...2:15...Liam Neeson.
Rhodes (1998) (Mini-Series 5:30hrs)...Martin Shaw, Frances
Barber.
Anna and the King (1999)...2:30hrs...Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat
Chow.
Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)
(2001)...2:20hrs...Germany...Juliane Köhler, Merab
Ninidze.
Queen Victoria's Empire (2001) ...4hrs... PBS Mini
Series
Guns, Germs, and Steel: A
National Geographic Presentation...(2005)....Part III (55
mins.).....PBS
Documentary.
IV-CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (FOURTH NINE WEEKS)
World War
I
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
/ (1979) ..2h.. Louis Wolheim / Ernest Borgnine.
Mata Hari
(1931)...1:30hrs...Greta
Garbo.
Sergeant York
(1941)...2:14hrs...Gary
Cooper,
Walter
Brennan,
Joan
Leslie.
Paths of Glory (1957) ...1:27..... Kirk Douglas.
A Farewell to Arms (1957) ... 2:32 ... Rock Hudson, Jennifer
Jones.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ..3h... Peter O’Toole and
Alec Guinness.
World War I (1964-65) TV Series/Fox Documentary. Video
Release (1994) .....9h.... Hosted by Robert Ryan.
Fall of Eagles (1974)...10:50hrs...BBC Mini Series...Patrick
Stewart, John Rhys, Gemma Jones.
Testament of Youth (1979) ...Mini-Series 3:20hrs... Cheryl
Campbell, Rosalie Crutchley.
Gallipoli (1981) ... 1:50 ... Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill
Kerr.
The Lighthorsemen (1987) ... 1:41 .... Jon Blake, Bill Kerr,
Peter Phelps.
In Love and War (1996)...1:53hrs...Chris O'Donnell, Sandra
Bullock, Mackenzie Astin.
The Trench (1999) ...1:40hs...Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig,
Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Deathwatch
or
No Man's Land
(2002)...1:34hrs...Jamie
Bell,
Rúaidhrí
Conroy,
Mike
Downey.
Russian Revolution:
Communism.
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
....Russia....1:15..... Dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Oktyabr (October) (1927)...1:35hrs...Russia...Vladimir
Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko.
The End of St. Petersburg
(1927)...1:20hrs..Vera
Baranovskaya,
Aleksandr
Chistyakov,
Ivan
Chuvelyov.
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)...2:hrs...John, Ethel, and
Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan.
Chapajev
(1934)...1:33hrs...Boris
Babochkin.
Three Songs of Lenin
(1934)...1hr...Documentary....Dir.Dziga
Vertov.
Tovarich (1937)...1:40hrs...Claudette
Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone.
The Cranes Are Flying
(1960)...1:34hrs...Tatyana
Samojlova,
Aleksei
Batalov,
Vasili
Merkuryev.
Ballad of a Soldier
(1960)...1:30hrs...Vladimir
Ivashov,
Zhanna
Prokhorenko,
Antonina
Maksimova.
Fate of a Man
(1961)...1:43hrs...Sergei
Bondarchuk,
Pavel
Boriskin,
Zinaida
Kiriyenko.
Childhood of Ivan
(1962)...1:30hrs...Nikolai
Burlyayev,
Valentin
Zubkov.
Doctor Zhivago (1965) ....3:17..... Omar Sharif , Julie
Christie, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Geraldine Chaplin.
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) ...3h.... Dir. Franklin J.
Schaffner.
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)...1:43hs...Alain Delon,
Richard Burton, Romy Schneider.
Fall of Eagles (1974)...10:50hrs...BBC Mini Series...Patrick
Stewart, John Rhys, Gemma Jones.
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
(1978)...2:20hrs...Vera
Alentova,
Irina
Muravyova,
Aleksei
Batalov
Oblomov
(1979)...2:23hrs...Oleg
Tabakov.
Sibiriada
(1979)...3:26hrs...Natalya
Andrejchenko,
Sergei
Shakurov,
Vitali
Solomin.
Reds (1981)...3:15hrs...Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton.
Little Vera
(1988)...1:50hrs...Natalya
Negoda.
From Czar
to Stalin
(1988)...Documentary...Director: Raphael
Nussbaum.
The Mother
(1989)...Inna
Churikova,
Viktor
Rakov,
Liubomiras
Lauciavicius.
The Inner Circle
(1991)...2:17hrs..Tom
Hulce,
Lolita
Davidovich,
Aleksandr
Zbruyev.
Inside Soviet Union: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
(1991)....Documentary.
Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
(1992)...2:07hrs...Documentary.
Stalin (1992) ...3h..... Robert Duval.
Rasputin (1996) ....2:15........ Alan Rickman.
Anna Karenina (1997) / (2000) ...1:48/ Mini Series 6hrs....
Sophie Marceau /
Helen
McCrory.
I Was
Stalin's Bodyguard
(1998)...Documentary.
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
(2000)...1:30hrs....Documentary...Director: Esfir
Shub.
The
Red Masters 1: Secret Lenin (2002)....Documentary
Directed
by:
Jean-Francois
Deniau.
The Russian Revolution (2005)...23
minutes...Documentary...Library Video / Schlessinger
Media.
The Spanish Civil
War
For Whom the Bell
Tolls (1943)...2:50hrs...Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman.
Land and Freedom (1995)...1:50hrs...Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor,
Icíar Bollaín.
Talk of Angels (1998)...1:36hrs...Polly Walker, Vincent
Perez, Franco Nero, Penélope Cruz, Francisco
Rabal.
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)...1:52hrs...Ariadna
Gil,
Ivana
Baquero,
Sergi
López.
World War
II
Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the
Will) (1934)...2hrs...Germany...Documentary.
Casablanca (1942) ....1:43... Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid
Bergman.
The Desert Rats (1953) ... 1:28 ... Richard Burton, James
Mason.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) ...2:44.... William
Holden, Alec Guinness.
The Enemy Bellow (1957) ... 1:38 ... Robert Mitchum, Curt
Jurgend
Sink the Bismarck (1960) ...1:37.... Kenneth More
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (2000)...3hs..... Burt
Lancaster / Alec Baldwin.
The Guns of Navarone (1961)...2:40hrs...Gregory Peck, David
Niven, Anthony Quinn.
The Longest Day (1962). ...3h... John Wayne, Robert Mitchun,
Henry Fonda.
Battle of Bulge (1965) ...2h.... Henry Fonda.
Obyknovennyj Fashizm (Ordinary Fascism)
(1965)...2:20hrs...Russia...Documentary.
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) ....2:24... Dir. Richard
Fleischer.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968) ...2h......
Documentary.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) ...1:48.... Alec
Guinness.
Cross of Iron (1977) ... 2h ... James Coburn, James
Mason.
Mac Arthur (1977) ...2:10 Gregory Peck.
The Unknown War (1978)...Documentary, 20 Episodes / 45
min. each...Dir.
Isaac
Kleinerman...Narrated by Burt
Lancaster
The Bunker (1981) ...2:30.... Anthony Hopkins.
Hitler’s Henchmen (1985) ..1h.... Documentary.
Idi i Smotri (Come and See)
(1985)...2:25hrs...Russia...Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga
Mironova.
Rose Luxemburg (1986) ..2h.....
Barbara Sukowa.
Hope and Glory (1987)...1:50...Sebastian Rice-Edwards,
Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles.
Fortunes of War (1987) (Mini-Series 6hrs.)....Kenneth
Branagh, Emma Thompson.
Piece of Cake (1988) (Mini-Series 6 Episodes of 50 min.
each)...Tom Burlinson, Neil Dudgeon.
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) ..2hs..... Paul Newman.
Stalingrad (1993) ...2:15hrs...
Dominique
Horwitz,
Thomas
Kretschmann,
Jochen
Nickel,
Sebastian
Rudolph.
Hiroshima (1995) ...3hs..... Hisashi Igawa & Jeffrey de
Munn.
The English Patient (1996)...2:40hrs...Ralph Fiennes,
Juliette Binoche.
Breaking the Code (1996) (TV)...1:15hrs...Harold Pinter,
Alun Armstrong.
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ...3hs.... Tom Hanks
Band of Brothers (2001) ...10 hrs... HBO TV Series
....Spielberg & Hanks.
Enemy at the Gates (2001) ...2:08... Jude Law, Ed Harris
Pearl Harbor (2001) ...2:00... Ben Affleck, Josh
Hartnett
The Gathering Storm (2002)...1:35....Albert Finney
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)...Mini Series
/CBS...3hs...Robert Carlyle
Downfall (2004)...2:36hrs...Bruno
Ganz,
Alexandra
Maria Lara,
Corinna
Harfouch,
Ulrich
Matthes,
Juliane
Köhler.
Original Child Bomb
(2004)...1hr.....Documentary.....Dir.
Carey
Schonegevel
Letters from Iwo Jima
(2007)....2hrs...Ken
Watanabe,
Kazunari
Ninomiya,
Shido
Nakamura,
Tsuyoshi
Ihara.
Indigènes (2006)...2hrs...Jamel
Debbouze,
Samy Naceri,
Roschdy Zem,
Sami Bouajila,
Bernard Blancan.
The War (2007)...14hrs...PBS Documentary (7 Parts)....Ken Burns.
The
Holocaust
The Great Dictator (1940) ....2h.....
Charlie Chaplin.
Holocaust (1978) ...TV Mini Series ....8h... Meryl Streep,
Tom
Bell,
David
Warner,
Ian
Holm .
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) ....1:40......Melissa
Gilbert.
Schlindler’s List (1993) ..3h.... Liam Nelson,
Ben
Kingsley,
Ralph
Fiennes,
Caroline
Goodall.
Journey of Butterfly (1995)...Documentary...Think
Media...1:02hrs...
Life is Beautiful (1997)...2hs...Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta
Braschi, Giustino Durano.
The Devil's Arithmetic
(1999)...1:35hrs...Kirsten
Dunst,
Brittany
Murphy,
Paul
Freeman.
Uprising (2001) ...3hs... Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria,
Donald Sutherland.
Conspiracy (2001) ...1:36hs... Stanley Tucci, Kenneth
Branagh, Colin Firth.
The Gray Zone (2001)...1:48hrs...David Arquette, Velizar
Binev, David Chandler.
The Pianist (2002)...2:30...Adrien Brody, Thomas
Kretschmann.
Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
(2005)...Mini Series BBC...5hrs...Documentary
Dir.
Laurence
Rees
The Counterfeiters (2007)...1:38hrs...Karl
Markovics,
August Diehl,
Devid Striesow,
Martin Brambach.
The Cold
War
Men in War (1957). ...1:40.... Robert
Ryan.
On the Beach (1959)...2:15...Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred
Astaire, Anthony Perkins
Exodus (1960) ....3:28..... Paul Newmam.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)...1:40... Janet Munro,
Leo McKern, Edward Judd.
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)...2:45hrs...Anthony Quinn,
Laurence Olivier.
Scorpio (1973) ....2h... Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon.
State of Siege (1973)...2hrs...Yves Montand
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979) ... 1:40 ... Martin
Balsam, Janet Suzman.
Apocalypse Now (1979). ...2:33... Martin Sheen, Marlon
Brando.
Missing (1982) ...2hs..... Jack Lemmon.
Under Fire (1983) ...2h..... Gene Hackman, Nick Nolte.
Vietnam: A Television History (1983)...11 hrs. PBS
Documentary.
Austin
Hoyt &
Judith
Vecchione
(writers).
Threads (1984) ...2hs..... Karen Meagher, Reece
Dinsdale.
The Killing Fields (1984)...2:20hs...Sam Waterston, Haing S.
Ngor, John Malkovich.
Gulag (1984) ... 2h ... David Keith, Malcolm McDowell.
Cal (1984) ... 1:42 ... Helen Mirren, John Lynch.
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) ...2hrs...Mel Gibson,
Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco.
The Official Story (1985) ..1:53....Norma Aleandro.
Platoon (1986) ..2h.... Charlie Sheen.
Salvador (1986) ...2h...... James Wood.
The Last Emperor (1987) ...2:40..... John Lone.
Romero (1989) ...1:45...... Raul Julia.
Israel’s Shattered Dreams (1990) ....3hs....Documentary
Victor Schonfeld.
The Fall of Berlin Wall (1990) ...49min....
Documentary. Dir.
Peter Claus
Schmidt
The Hunt for Red October (1990) ...2:15.... Sean
Connery.
At Play in the Field of the Lord (1991) ...3hs.... Tom
Berenger.
Patriot Games (1992). ...2h..... Harrison Ford.
Farewell my Concubine (1993)....3hrs...China....Leslie
Cheung, Fengyi Zhang.
Clear and Present Danger (1994) ..2:16..... Harrison
Ford.
Burning Season (1994). ...2h.... Raul Julia.
Apollo 13 (1995) ..2:20..... Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise.
Kundun (1997) ....2:14....Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong. Dir.
Martin Scorsese.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) ...2:11.... Brad Pitt.
El Che: Investigating A Legend
(1998)...2:30hrs...Documentary.
The Cold War (1998) CNN Series ...24hs..... Documentary.
The Cold War (2002)...28
minutes...Documentary...Library
Video / Schlessinger Media.
The Cold War (2003)...5 Vols....18 min.
each...Documentary...ABC
News, available at Library Video / Schlessinger
Media.
Fidel (2002)...3hrs...Showtime TV Mini
Series....Víctor Hugo Martin, Gael García
Bernal.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). ...2:18...Harrison Ford, Liam
Neeson.
We Were Soldiers (2002)...2:18... Mel Gibson.
Bloody Sunday (2002)...1:50hrs...James Nesbitt, Allan
Gildea, Gerard Crossan.
Cambridge Spies (2003)...4hrs....Toby Stephens, Tom
Hollander, Samuel West.
John Paul II (2005)...3hrs....CBS Mini Series....Jon
Voight.
Munich (2005)....2:44hrs.....Eric Bana, Daniel Craig,
Ciarán
Hinds,
Mathieu
Kassovitz,
Hanns
Zischler.
The Good German (2006)...1:45hrs....George
Clooney,
Tobey
Maguire,
Cate
Blanchett.
The Movies of James Bond, Agent 007, can be used for this period (Cold War and beyond)
Post-Cold War: New
Global Order, Terrorism, Iraq, Oil, the Environment,
Drugs, Extreme Poverty, Civil Wars.
The Peacemaker
(1997)...2:05hrs...George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel
Iures.
Ronin (1998) ...2hs...Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha
McElhone.
Traffic (2000)...2:27hrs...Benicio
Del Toro,
Jacob
Vargas,
Michael
Douglas.
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)...1:45....Gene Hackman, Owen
Wilson
Black Hawk Down (2001)...2:15....Josh Hartnett, Eric
Bana
America 911 - We Will Never Forget (2001) ...1hr.
Documentary
The Sum of all Fears (2002)....2:30...Ben Affleck, Morgan
Feeman
Live From Baghdad (2002) ... 2hs...Michael Keaton, Helena
Bonham Carter.
Spinning Boris / The Yeltsin Project
(2003)...1:52hrs...Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev
Schreiber.
Tears of the Sun (2003)...2hrs...Bruce
Willis,
Monica
Bellucci.
Beyond Borders (2003)...2:07hrs...Angelina
Jolie,
Clive
Owen,
Clive
Owen.
The Day After Tomorrow
(2004)...2:04hrs...Dennis
Quaid,
Jake
Gyllenhaal,
Emmy
Rossum.
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
(2004) 3hrs. Dir. Adam Curtis BBC TV Documentary
Syriana (2005)...2:06hrs...George
Clooney,
Matt
Damon.
Paradise Now (2005)...1:30 hrs...Kais
Nashef,
Ali
Suliman,
Lubna
Azabal.
Lord of War (2005)...2hrs...Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Ethan
Hawke.
The Constant Gardener (2005)...2:10hrs....Ralph Fiennes,
Rachel Weis.
Why We Fight (2005) ...1:40hrs....Documentary....Dir.
Eugene
Jarecki
An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)...1:40hrs....Documentary....Dir.
Davis
Guggenheim (Al Gore).
Blood Diamond (2006)...2:18hrs...Leonardo
DiCaprio,
Djimon
Hounsou,
Jennifer
Connelly.
No End in Sight (2007)...2:25hrs...Documentary...Dir.
Charles Ferguson
Lions for Lambs (2007)...2hrs...Robert
Redford,
Meryl Streep,
Tom Cruise.
Rendition (2007)...2hrs...Reese
Witherspoon,
Jake Gyllenhaal.
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)...2hrs...Documentary...Dir.
Errol Morris
MOTION PICTURES FOR AMERICAN HISTORY
I-FIRST NINE WEEKS
Geography
Reader's
Digest Scenic Wonders of America
(1991)....3hrs....Documentary
Scenic
Wonders of America (2001)...3hrs....Questar
Video....Documentary
America's
National Parks (2001)...4hrs...Questar
Video...Documentary
Native
Americans
Black Robe (1991) ...1:41.....
Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg.
Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994) ...1:42.... Joseph
Runningfor, Nick Ramns.
Native Americans (1994) Turner Home Video TV Series.
Documentary (6 Tapes) ...4:20hrs...Host: Joy Harvo.
500 Nations (1995) Warner Studios TV Series.
Documentary (8 Tapes) ....6:30hrs.... Host: Kevin
Cos