Movie Review

Watch one of the following movies, or a movie that takes place between 1877 and 1992 and deals with a topic that relates to the United States. In 350 – 450 words, give a synopsis of the movie and then write one or two paragraphs on why the subject (or related topic expressed in the film) of the movie is important to American History.

List of Movie you can choose from:

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The Grapes of Wrath

Casablanca

Memphis Belle

The Tuskegee Airmen

Midway

Dr. Strangelove

The Right Stuff

Ghosts of Mississippi

Remember the Titans

All the President’s Men

Thirteen Days

The Great Gatsby

Iron Jawed Angels

Patton

Apollo 13

Milk

October Sky

To Kill a Mockingbird

Thin Red Line

Full Metal Jacket

Monuments Men

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Far and Away

There will be blood

The Aviator

Seabiscuit

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

The Great Escape

Saving Private Ryan

The Help

Mississippi Burning

Nixon

Frost/Nixon

Argo

Black Hawk Down

Three Kings