Final Exam question: M & T
Make up your own exam, essay or multiple choice and answer the test that you have made up. You will need to have at least three essay questions or 50 multiple-choice. You will have to answer the essays in at least a 2 page paper. Be prepared to give your test orally to the other students in the class. The material covered will be from Truman to the present. Not on the same topics.
History 1:
Do any two movies and two books that are tied to the movie. Examine carefully the accuracy of the movie and its precise or unprecise following of the book. Compare and contrast the book and movie. This will require a 3 pg paper for each two movies/books.
Films that address the early part of the 20th Century Period up to the 1930s:
Birth of a Nation (1915) B/W; See the following films: The Clansman (1970) & The Leopard's Spots, A Romance of the White Man's Burden (2013).
Triangle Fire PBS Video; https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/ See also the article in Marcus and Burner.
Grapes of Wrath (1940) B/W; Grapes of Wrath (1939)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) Color; All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Sergeant York (1941) B/W; Sgt. York: His Life, Legend & Legacy: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sgt. Alvin C. York
Dillinger (1973) Color; Dillinger (2010)
Of Mice and Men (1992) Color; Of Mice and Men (1993) ed.
Great Gatsby 1974 Color; Great Gatsby (2004)
Films that deal with WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War Era, and Iraq/Afghanistan
WWII
The Enemy Below (1957) Color; The Enemy Below (HMS Hecate Book 2) 2015
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) B/W; Run Silent, Run Deep (Permabooks) 1956
The Desert Fox (1951) B/W; Rommel: Desert Fox 1987
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Color; Fat Man and Little Boy 2014
The Great Escape (1963) Color; The Great Escape 2004
The Longest Day (1962) B/W; The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day 1994
The Thin Red Line (1998) Color; The Thin Red Line: A Novel 1998
Unbroken (2014) Color; ; Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (2011or
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2014)
Bridge of Spies (2015) color; Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers (2015)
Korea
Men in War (1957) Color; This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (2001)
Pork Chop Hill (1957) Color; the Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2008)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) B/W (use this version not the most recent one); Manchurian Candidate 2000
Vietnam
Bat 21(1988) Color ; BAT-21: Based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. Hambleton, USA (1980)
Hamburger Hill (1987) Color; Hamburger Hill (1999)
The Deer Hunter (1978) Color; The Deer Hunter 1979
Apocalypse Now (1979) Color; the Apocalypse Now Book (2001) or
Apocalypse Now Redux : A Screenplay (2001)
Cold War
The Hunt for Red October (1990) Color; The Hunt for Red October 1984
The Strategic Air Command (1955) Color; Strategic Air Command: People, Aircraft, and Missiles 1979
The Heroes of Desert Storm (1992) Color; Falcon's Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir (1998)
1950-1980
High Noon (1952) Color; High Noon (Bfi Film Classics)2008
12 Angry Men (1957) B/W; Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men: A Play in Three Acts (1983)
On the Waterfront (1954); On the Waterfront 2010
The Untouchables1987 or the earlier film 1959; The Untouchables 1993
The Long Walk Home (1990) Color; The Long Walk Home 2013
Malcolm X (1992) Color; The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley 1987
All the Presidents Men (1976) Color; All The President's Men 2014
Woodstock (1970) Color; Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World 2010
Quiz Show (1994) Color; The Quiz Show (TV Genres) 2008
The Killing Fields (1984) Color; The Killing Fields (1984)
Raging Bull (1980); Raging Bull, My Story (1997)
1980-2010
The Iraq War (2008) Color; The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath (2005)
The Hurt Locker (2010) Color; The Hurt Locker: The Shooting Script (2009)
The Taliban (2007) Color; The Taliban (2010) 2nd ed.
Rethink Afghanistan (2009) Color; Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (2012)
Return to Kandahar (2010) Color; Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan (2009)
Fargo 1996; Fargo (1996)
The Color Purple (1985) Color; The Color Purple (2003)
2010-2014
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) Color; Zero Dark Thirty 2002
Argo (2013) Color; Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 2013
Monument Men (2014) Color; The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 2010
The Help (2011) Color; The Help 2009
Unbroken (2014) Color; Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (2011)