Movie+List

=Movie List=
 * 1) A Brief History of Time (1992): Physicist Stephen Hawking explains the nature of the universe.
 * 2) Quest for Fire (1981): A tribe loses its fire and does not have the knowledge to start their own, so they must send out a small group in search of fire from other tribes.
 * 3) The Ten Commandments (1956): Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt.
 * 4) The Prince of Egypt (1998): The animated story of Moses, an Egyptian prince who learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.
 * 5) The Odyssey (1962): Odysseus's long, difficult journey home from the Trojan War.
 * 6) Troy (2004): Story of the Battle of Troy in Ancient Greece.
 * 7) Gladiator (1999): Story of a General who angers the new Emperor of Rome and is banished into slavery, becoming a very famous gladiator.
 * 8) 300 (2006): King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
 * 9) Spartacus (1960): Slave revolt in 71 BC.
 * 10) Robin Hood (various films): English class system during the time of the Crusades. (Prince of thieves or Men in Tights)
 * 11) The Kingdom of Heaven (2005): Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
 * 12) A Knight’s Tale (2001): A peasant squire takes up the identity of his master when the knight suffers an untimely demise.
 * 13) Cleopatra (1963): Story of the heroic, and ultimately doomed, struggle by the young Queen of Egypt to save her county from absorption into the expanding Roman Empire in the mid-first century BC.
 * 14) Elizabeth (1998): Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, sister of Mary, Queen of England.
 * 15) The Messenger: Joan of Arc (1999): 1428, France’s Hundred Years war with England.
 * 16) The Three Musketeers (1993): King Louis of France’s faithful protectors.
 * 17) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992): 1456-1476, Vlad Dracula of Transylvannia fights Ottoman Turks.
 * 18) The Crucible (1996): 1648 witch hunts in the colonies.
 * 19) The Scarlet Letter (1995): Evil effects of Puritanism.
 * 20) Marie Antoinette (2006): The biography of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, from birth to death.
 * 21) Treasure Island(1950): Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer captain flint. (1996 Muppet Treasure Island)
 * 22) Last of the Mohicans (1992): French and Indian War 1756-1763.
 * 23) The Patriot (2000): Focuses on one family’s experience during the American Revolutionary war.
 * 24) The King and I (1956) or Anna and the King (2000): Imperialism and the clash of cultures.
 * 25) Unchained Memories: the Slave Narratives (2002): Famous Actors/Actresses read interpretively the narratives attained by the government during the 40’s.
 * 26) Amistad (1997): Slave ship rebellion leads to 1839 court room drama.
 * 27) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987): Based on novel by Harriett Beecher Stowe about slavery in the United States.
 * 28) Of Gods and Generals (2003): United States Civil War
 * 29) Gone with the Wind (1939): Southern Experience in the American Civil war; Before, during and after the war.
 * 30) Glory (1989): African-American soldiers in American Civil WAr.
 * 31) Tombstone (1993): Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at OK corral.
 * 32) Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid (1969): Story of the notorious bank robbers during the Wild West era in America.
 * 33) Billy the Kid (1989): The story of Billy the Kid, based on the novel by Gore Vidal.
 * 34) Dances with wolves (1990): Kevin Costner’s tribute to Native Americans; set during the American Civil WAr.
 * 35) Geranimo: An American Legend (1993): The story of the Apache leader.
 * 36) Rough Riders (1997): Teddy Roosevelt fights his way up hill to glory at San Juan Hill.
 * 37) Titanic (1997): story of the sinking of the Titanic.
 * 38) Anastasia (1997): Animated story of the fall of the Czar.
 * 39) Scarlett (1994): Sequel to Gone with the Wind; Irish and English Hostility, told from the side of the Irish.
 * 40) The Great Gatsby (1949): F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of snobbery and decadence among the rich of America in the 1920’s.
 * 41) Chicago (2002): Women in the 1920’s, two women charged with murder in Chicago and how they get out of it.
 * 42) The Babe (1992): Story of the famous American baseball player, Babe Ruth.
 * 43) The Untouchables (1987): American crime fighter, head of nine-man team of law officers who opposed Al Capone’s underground network in Chicago.
 * 44) The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma.
 * 45) Evita (1996): Evita Peron of Argentina, wife of fascist leader Juan Peron.
 * 46) Enemy at the Gate (2001): Russian sniper vs. German sniper at Stalingrad during WWII.
 * 47) Then There Were Giants (1994): Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin wage war against Nazi Germany.
 * 48) Saving Private Ryan (2001): Following the struggles of D-Day, a squad is sent out to find and bring back the sole surviving son of a family which had already lost three sons in the fighting.
 * 49) Band of Brothers (2001): Follows the accomplishments of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army.
 * 50) The Great Escape (1963): Prisoners of war attempt a massive escape from a German prison camp.
 * 51) The Tuskegee Airmen (1995): The story of the first squadron of African-American pilots during WWII.
 * 52) Schindler’s List (1993): Oskar Schindler, a profiteering capitalist using the virtual slave labor of Polish Jews to manufacture cookware for the Nazis. He has an epiphany with the violent destruction of the Krakow ghetto and its inhabitants. Schindler is able to save a lot of his former workers who now have to exist in a Nazi work camp.
 * 53) Tora! Tora! Tora!: Bombing of Pearl Harbor from Japanese and American perspectives.
 * 54) Pearl Harbor (2001): The affect of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor from American point of view, love story weaves throughout plot.
 * 55) Windtalkers (2002): Navajo codetalkers use their own language as the unbreakable code during WWII.
 * 56) A League of Their Own (1992): Women join the National Baseball League to make up for the male players overseas fighting WW II.
 * 57) American Graffiti (1973): Portrays teen-age life in America during the early 1960’s.
 * 58) Separate But Equal (1991): Legal challenge of school segregation in America by NAACP leader, Marshal Thurgood.
 * 59) Malcolm X (1992): Biography of Malcolm X, a leader during the Civil Rights Movement in America.
 * 60) JFK (1991): Oliver Stone’s conspiracy version of the Assassination of JFK.
 * 61) The Men Who Killed Kennedy (1988): Documentary that looks into the questions surrounding the investigation of Kennedy’s assassination.
 * 62) October Sky (1999): American reaction to Sputnik, Russian space satellite.
 * 63) We Were Soldiers (2002): First major battle of the Vietnam War.
 * 64) Forrest Gump (1994): Fanciful story of one man growing up in the 20th century.
 * 65) Munich (Munich): The story of the track down and capture of the individuals involved in the massacre at the 1970’s Olympics.
 * 66) All the President’s Men (1976): Washington Post reporters track down Nixon and Watergate.
 * 67) Frost/Nixon (2008): Richard Nixon participates in an interview after the Watergate scandal.
 * 68) Milk (2008): The life and career of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office.
 * 69) Philadelphia (1993): AIDS and discrimination in a law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * 70) Apollo 13 (1995): A group of astronauts deal with catastrophe in outer space.
 * 71) Courage Under Fire (1996): Fictional story set during the Persian Gulf War.
 * 72) Primary Colors (1998): Critical look at the presidency of Bill Clinton.
 * 73) Black Hawk Down (2001): American troops in 1993 are caught in hostile territory in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * 74) Erin Brokovich (2000): working for a small law firm, Erin uncovers pollution-induced illnesses in the residents in Hinkley, California. She organizes the community to fight the forces of the polluting companies.
 * 75) In Memorium: New York City 9/11(2002): Documentary tracing the events of 9/11.
 * 76) Bowling for Columbine (2002): Documentary investigating America’s obsession with weapons and the details surrounding the Columbine School murders.
 * 77) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Documentary investigating what happened to America after 9/11 and the Bush administration.
 * 78) The Social Network (2010): The creation of Facebook.

This is only a small list of all the historically based movies available, if you want to watch a movie not on this list, please approve it with Carrie first.