Students’
Film Critiques
The Colonial
Era
Pathfinder (2007)
Black Robe
(1991)
Elizabeth
(1998)
Pocahontas II
(1998)
The New World
(2005)
The New World #2
(2005)
Parrish (1961)
The Crucible
(1996)
When the
Redskins Rode (1951)
The Revolutionary
Era
The Howards of Virginia
(1940)
The Howards of
Virginia #2 (1940)
The Madness of
King George (1994)
The
Crimson Pirate (1952)
The Crossing
(2000)
The Crossing #2
(2000)
George
Washington, Part III (1984)
America
(1924)
The Scarlet Coat
(1955)
1776 (1972)
1776 #2 (1972)
Revolution
(1985)
The Patriot
(2000)
Jefferson in
Paris (1995)
The Era of
Jacksonian Democracy
The Buccaneer
(1958)
The Gorgeous
Hussy (1936)
The Great
Moment (1944)
The
Comanche
Territory (1950)
Martyrs of the
Alamo (1915)
The Alamo
(1960)
Gone to
Texas (1986)
James A.
Michener’s Texas (1994)
Two for
Texas (1998)
Viva Max (1969)
Slavery,
Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Amistad (1997)
Amistad #2
(1997)
Santa Fe
Trail (1940)
Seven Angry Men
(1955)
Gangs of New York
(2002)
The Red Badge of
Courage (1951)
Friendly
Persuasion (1956)
Shenandoah
(1965)
The General
(1927)
Gettysburg
(1993)
Gore Vidal’s
Lincoln (1988)
Tennessee Johnson
(1942)
Sommersby
(1993)
Birth of a
Nation (1915)
Billy the
Kid
The Parson
and the Outlaw (1957)
The Left Handed
Gun (1958)
Billy
the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
Pat
Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
Return of the Bad Men #2 (1948)
Young Guns
(1988)
Gore
Vidal’s Billy the Kid (1989)
Purgatory
(1999)
Jesse James
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
The Long Riders (1980)
American
Outlaws (2001)
The Postwar
West
High Noon (1952)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Ravenous (1999)
Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Wyatt Earp
(1994)
Late 19th
Century
Rough Riders
(1997)
The
Progressive Era
The
Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Entertaining
Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
World War I
Wings (1927)
East of Eden
(1955)
Paths of Glory
(1957)
All Quiet on the
Western Front (1979)
The Lost
Battalion (2001)
Gangsters
All the King’s
Men (2006)
Cinderella Man
(2005)
King Kong (2005)
Meet John Doe
(1941)
Sullivan’s
Travels (1941)
O Brother, Where Art
Thou? (2000)
It’s a
Wonderful Life (1946)
Cradle Will
Rock (1999)
World War II
Pearl Harbor
(2001)
Enemy at the
Gates (2001)
Casablanca
(1942)
PT-109 (1963)
Zoot Suit (1981)
Swing Shift
(1984)
A Bridge Too Far
(1977)
The Big Red One (1980/2004)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Band of Brothers
(2001)
The Cold War
Atomic Café
(1982)
Atomic Café #2
(1982)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The
Thing from Another World (1951)
War of the
Worlds (1953)
Suddenly (1954)
Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Night of
the Living Dead (1968)
The Missiles
of October (1974)
Red Dawn (1984)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Fail Safe (2000)
Good
Night and Good Luck (2005)
The 1950s
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)