Movies & Media

Movies & Media

Movies are a great way to tell a story. Here is a list of movies that tell of events and people in history. Some are true, some are fiction based on fact and some are just plain good movies with good characters, great lessons and strong values. Most of these can be found in your local video store or community library. But make a point to check out Wal-mart’s $5.00 movie bins now and again. You will often find some real gems there.

We also suggest purchasing the books— 

Ø      The Family Guide to Classic Movies by J.S. Ringler

Ø      Learning with the Movies: A Guide for Education and Fun by Beth Holland

Animated Hero Classics by NEST Entertainment

Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By (book and audio)

A More Perfect Union

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

The Patriot (2000, Mel Gibson)

Braveheart (1995, Mel Gibson)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1946-British)

Cleopatra (1934, 1963)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Three Hundred Spartans (1962)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963, British)

Ben Hur (1959)

Julius Caesar (1953)

The Robe (1953)

Spartacus (1960)

Kings of the Sun (1963)

The Vikings (1958)

Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Black Rose (1950)

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)

The court Jester (1956)

The Crusades (1935)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Ivanhoe (1952)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Lady Godiva (1955)

Robin Hood (1973)

Camelot (1967)

The Lion in Winter

The Agony and the Ecstay (1965)

Prince of foxes (1949)

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Fire Over England (1937)

Luther (1955)

Man for All Seasons (1966)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

The Virgin Queen (1955)

Allegheny Uprising (1939)

Ben and Me (animated film)

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Johnny Tremaine (1957)

The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

Northwest Passage (1940)

Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Horatio Hornblower (A&E 1998)

Man in the Iron Mask (1934, 1977)Scaramouche (1952)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

The Alamo (1960)

The Big Country (1958)

Broken Arrow (1950)

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

Far and Away (1992)

How the West Was Won (1962)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

The Mark of Zorro (1940, 1998)

North to Alaska (1960)

Old Yeller (1957)

The Searchers (1956)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Westward the Women (1951)

World in His Arms (1952)

Dances with Wolves (1990)

The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)

Little Women (1933)

The Man Without a Country (1973)

Pride and Prejudice (A&E 1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

The birth of a Nation (1915)

Gettysburg (1993)

Gods and Generals (2003)

The Great Locomotive chase (1956)

Guns of Ft.Petticoat (1957)

The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

Shenandoah (1965)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Anne of Avonlea (1987)

Anne of Green Gables (1985)

Around the World in 80 Days (1967)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The Man Edison (1940)

The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)

Gandhi (1982)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940

Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Hunt for Red October (1990)

Ice Station Zebra (1968)

MemphisBell

Red Dawn

Iron Eagle (1986)

Iron Will (1994)

The Miracle Worker (1962)

My Side of the Mountain (1962)

A Night to Remember (1958)

Peacemaker (1997)

San Francisco (1936)

SarahPlain and Tall (1990)

The Spirit of St Louis (1957)

A Stranger in Town (1943)

A Thousand Heroes (1992)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Top Gun (1986)

War Games (1983)

Young Tom Edison (1940)

The Naked Jungle (1954)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The African Queen (1951)

The Court-Marshall of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

WWII 

Back to Bataan (1945)

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957)

The Were Expendable (1945)

Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)

Wing and a Prayer (1944)

Battleground (1949)

Betrayed (1954)

Desperate Journey (1942)

Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

The Enemy Below (1957)

Escape (1940)

Escape from Sobibor (1987)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The Great Escapte (1963)

Guns of Navarone (1961)

The Hiding Place (1975)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kinder transport (2000)

Judgment at Nuremberg  (1961)

The Longest Day (1962)

Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)

One Against the Wind (1991)

Stalag 17 (1953)

To Hell and Back (1956)

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Desert Fox (1951)

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

The Clock (1945)

The Best Years of our Lives (1946)

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)