WESTERN CIVILIZATION MOVIE SUGGESTIONS

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I.) THE MIDDLE AGES

Camelot (1967)

Excalibur 

Ivanhoe (1952)

Becket (1962)

Braveheart (1995)

The Crusades

The Seventh Seal

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939)

The Sword and the Stone

Castle (1969)

Cathedral

The Virgin Spring (1960)

II) The 16th CENTURY: THE RENAISSANCE

The Prince of Foxes (1949)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

III) THE 16TH CENTURY: THE REFORMATION

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932)

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973)

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Anne of a Thousand Days (1971)

Lady Jane

 

IV) THE 16TH CENTURY: EXPLORATION

Captain from Castille (1947)

The Mission (1986)

Plymouth Adventure (1952)

The Black Robe (1991)

V) THE 17TH CENTURY: CRISIS AND CHAOS

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Fire Over England (1936)

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

Elizabeth the Queen (1939)

Elizabeth (1971)

The Black Swan (1942)

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

Captain Blood (1935)

The Last Valley (1971)

Restoration

Conspiracies

 

 

VI) DIFFERING SOLUTIONS: ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1948)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

The Four Musketeers (1974)

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)

Peter the Great

Cromwell (1970)

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

VII) THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Queen Christina (1933)

Catherine the Great (1934)

Black Magic (1949)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Amadeus (1984)

Immortal Beloved (1996)

Tom Jones (1963)

 

 

VIII) THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS

Allegheny Uprising (1939)

The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

The Deerslayer (1978)

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

The Devil's Disciple (1959)

Northwest Passage (1940)

Alexander Hamilton (1931)

1776 (1972)

Germinal (1993)

La Marseillaise (1938)

Johnny Tremain (1957)

John Paul Jones (1959)

Lafayette (1961)

Danton

Revolution (1985)

Howards of Virginia (1940)

A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Colonel Chaubert (1994)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Desiree (1954)

Waterloo (1970)

Napoleon (1980)

The Duelists (1977)

War and Peace (1968)

Becky Sharp (1935)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Rob Roy (1995)

The Madness of King George (1995)

Barry Lundon

La Boheme (1988)

The Horseman on the Roof (1995)

Ridicule (1996)

 

 

IX) THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION

Modern Times (1936)

David Copperfield (1935)

Great Expectations (1946)

Scrooge (1951)

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Major Barbara (1941)

I'm All right Jack (1959)

Frankenstein: The True Story (1972)

 

X) THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The Lady With the Lamp (1951)

Elephant Man (1980)

Madame Bovary (1949)

The Leopard (1963)

A Woman Rebels (1936)

The Shooting Party (1984)

Upstairs/Downstairs (1971-1975)

The Forsyte Sage

A Room With a View (1986)

The Corn is Green (1945)

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

I Accuse (1958)

Madame Curie (1943)

Moulin Rouge (1952)

Lust for Life (1956)

Freud (1962)

Prisoner of Honor (HBO)

Magic Flute (1975)

The Man Who Would Be King

 

XI) THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A Night to Remember (1958)

Muss Julie (1950)

A Doll's House (1973)

Elvira Madigan (1967)

The Great Train Robbery

Breaker Morant

Sergeant York (1941)

Potemkin (1925)

Pelle the Conqueror (1988)

Nicholas and Alexandra (1972)

The Fixer (1968)

Reds (1981)

Dr. Shivago (1965)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Primo Levi: The Memory of the Offense. PBS, 1996

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Gallipoli (1981)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Ship of Fools (1965)

Triumph of the Will (1934)

Wilson (1944)

Swing Kids (1993)

The African Queen (1951)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Rules of the Game (1939)

Cabaret (1972)

The Damned (1969)

The Tin Drum (1979)

The Conformist (1970)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

Remains of the Day (1994)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Hitler's Children (1943)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Patton (1970)

Bridge of the River Kwai (1957)

The Longest Day (1962)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Das Boot (1982)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1972)

The Dairy of Anne Frank (1959)

Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)

Judgment at Nuremburg (2000)

Casablanca (1942)

Schindler's List (1993)

The Last Metro (1980)

Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Hope and Glory (1987)

Europa, Europa (1990)

The Train (1964)

The Nasty Girl (1990)

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Third Man (1949)

The Bicycle Thief (1948)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

La Dolce Vita (1961)

Look Back in Anger (1959)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Exodus (1960)

The Prisoner (1955)

One Day in the Life of Evan Denisovich (1970)

Z (1969)

The Missiles of October (1974)

Michael Collins (1996)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)

A Clockwork Orange (1972)

1984 (1984)

Fahrenheit (1966)

Brazil (1985)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

 

 

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