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Lawrence of Arabia
This movie is about a British representative going into the deserts of Arabia to help them win the war battling the Turkish. -
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The Lost Batallion
The Lost Battalion is a movie about Division 77 being isolated in German territory during a planned attack on their front lines. These men fought and held their ground until rescued, much less in numbers, six days later. -
Eight Men Out
Eight men out is about the Baseball scandal of 1919, where the White oSx were bribed by mobsters and gangsters to loose games in the world series, so the 'sters bettting on the games could make a lot of money. They were caught, but found not guilty. This scandal apperantly tainted baseball, the only pure thing americans have left. -
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is about a government agent, working for the Bureau of Prohibition, Elliot Ness working to take down the Notorious Gangster Al Copone, who has taken over Chicago in 1929 -
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora Tora Tora is a very historically accurate version of the events on Pearl Hsrbor in 1941. It is told from both sides, switching between American and Japanese characters. The Japanese decide to attack a American-Hawaiian milatary base, killing thousands and destroying tonnes and tonnes of ships and planes. -
Pearl Harbor
This movie is a hollywood-fyed version of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We follow a love triangle through the massacre of thousands of men by Japanese fighter pilots in a Hawaii Navy base. -
Enemy at the Gates
The movie Enemy at the Gates is about a sniper in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad. He works with the Russians to give the people hope, to enlist to fight off the invading Germans. -
The Longest Day
The Longest Day is a movie about the events on D-Day in 1944. It shows us many different points of view on the events on D-Day, including events from Pegasus Bridge, French sabotage and grenade and on foot warfare. -
Boycott
The movie Boycott is about the Mississippi bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr to stand up for black segregation in the south by not using the buses, forcing the bus company to change the laws before going out of business. -
Thirteen Days
Thirteen Days is a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Russia moves to put missiles into Cuba, which is too close to the US coast for their liking. The government tries to stop this, as Total War being the end result. They succeed. -
Mississippi Burning
MIssissippi Burning is a movie about African Americans fighting for their rights and freedom to live without segregation in Mississippi. The movie surrounds the investigation of a murder of three civil rights workers being killed by the town leaders, because they were standing up for black rights.Two FBI agents investigate the local KKK, using questionable meathods to get the answers they need about an unjust killing. -
Mandela and deKlerk
This movie is about the story of Nelson Mandela fighting for rights of blacks in South America, and the story of his imprisonment and how he worked with the government to control the black liberation with as least violence as ppossible. -
All the Presidents Men
All the Presidents Men is a movie about the Watergate political scandal in 1972, where two investigative journalists use their passion and informants to confirm that the President, Nixon had been aware of a burglary of the DNC, attepting to steal and destroy hundreds of classified documents, as ordered by the CIA.