Film Title	American History Topic(s)	Alternate Films
1.	1776 (1972)	American Revolution	Guns Along the Mohawk The Howards of Virginia The Patriot Revolution
2.	Gangs of New York (2002)	Antebellum Era Early Civil War Period The Immigrant Experience	Amistad Far and Away Glory Little Women
3.	Birth of a Nation (1915)	Reconstruction	Gone with the Wind Intolerance
4.	Red River (1948)	The American Frontier Integration of the West into the Capitalist System American Expansion American Exceptionalism	Dances With Wolves Fort Apache High Noon My Darling Clementine Shane Stagecoach The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tombstone Unforgiven
5.	The Godfather  (1972)	The Immigrant Experience The Rise of Organized Crime	America, America Avalon Hester Street Public Enemy
6.	Modern Times  (1936)	The Great Depression Dehumanization of Labor	All the King's Men (1949 version) City Lights The Grapes of Wrath Ironweed
7.	Casablanca (1942)	American Neutrality Vichy France World War II	From Here to Eternity The House on 92nd. Street Passage to Marseilles Watch on the Rhine
8.	Hiroshima (1995)	World War II	Atomic Cafe Black Rain Day After Trinity Fat Man & Little Boy Hiroshima:  Out of the Ashes Truman
9.	Good Night and  Good Luck (2005)	The McCarthy Era Blacklisting Hollywood and the Cold War	The Front Guilty by Suspicion
10.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)	The Nuclear Age The Cold War	Advise and Consent Fail Safe The Manchurian Candidate Seven Days in May
11.	Thirteen Days (2000)	Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War The Kennedy Administration	The Missiles of October
12.	Apocalypse Now (1979)	Vietnam War	Born on the Fourth of July The Deer Hunter Fog of War Full Metal Jacket Green Berets Heart of Darkness Path to War Platoon
13.	Malcolm X (1992)	Civil Rights Movement Historical Biography	The Ghosts of Mississippi King Mississippi Burning The Rosa Parks Story
14.	All the President's Men (1976)	Watergate Scandal The Nixon Administration Investigative Journalism	Nixon
15.	Norma Rae (1979)	Late 20c Union Movement	Erin Brockovich Matewan Silkwood