WESTERN CIVILIZATION MOVIE SUGGESTIONS
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I.) THE MIDDLE AGES
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Camelot (1967) |
Excalibur |
Ivanhoe (1952) |
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Becket (1962) |
Braveheart (1995) |
The Crusades |
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The Seventh Seal |
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939) |
The Sword and the Stone |
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Castle (1969) |
Cathedral |
The Virgin Spring (1960) |
II) The 16th CENTURY: THE RENAISSANCE
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The Prince of Foxes (1949) |
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) |
Romeo and Juliet (1968) |
III) THE 16TH CENTURY: THE REFORMATION
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932) |
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973) |
A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
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Anne of a Thousand Days (1971) |
Lady Jane |
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IV) THE 16TH CENTURY: EXPLORATION
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Captain from Castille (1947) |
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The Black Robe (1991) |
V) THE 17TH CENTURY: CRISIS AND CHAOS
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The Prince and the Pauper (1937) |
Fire Over |
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) |
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The Black Swan (1942) |
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The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) |
Captain Blood (1935) |
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Restoration |
Conspiracies |
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VI) DIFFERING SOLUTIONS: ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM
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The Three Musketeers (1939) |
The Three Musketeers (1948) |
The Three Musketeers (1973) |
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The Four Musketeers (1974) |
The Return of the Musketeers (1989) |
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) |
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Peter the Great |
Cromwell (1970) |
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
VII) THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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Queen Christina (1933) |
Catherine the Great (1934) |
Black Magic (1949) |
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The Scarlet Empress (1934) |
Amadeus (1984) |
Immortal Beloved (1996) |
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Tom Jones (1963) |
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VIII) THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS
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Allegheny Uprising (1939) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1936) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
The Deerslayer (1978) |
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) |
The Devil's Disciple (1959) |
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Alexander Hamilton (1931) |
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1776 (1972) |
Germinal (1993) |
La Marseillaise (1938) |
Johnny Tremain (1957) |
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John Paul Jones (1959) |
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Danton |
Revolution (1985) |
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Howards of |
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) |
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) |
Colonel Chaubert (1994) |
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Anthony Adverse (1936) |
Desiree (1954) |
Waterloo (1970) |
Napoleon (1980) |
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The Duelists (1977) |
War and Peace (1968) |
Becky Sharp (1935) |
Captain Horatio Hornblower
(1951) |
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Pride and Prejudice (1940) |
Rob Roy (1995) |
The Madness of King George (1995) |
Barry Lundon |
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La Boheme (1988) |
The Horseman on the Roof (1995) |
Ridicule (1996) |
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IX) THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION
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Modern Times (1936) |
David Copperfield (1935) |
Great Expectations (1946) |
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Scrooge (1951) |
The Man in the White Suit (1951) |
Major Barbara (1941) |
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I'm All right Jack (1959) |
Frankenstein: The True Story (1972) |
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X) THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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The Lady With the Lamp (1951) |
Elephant Man (1980) |
Madame Bovary (1949) |
The Leopard (1963) |
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A Woman Rebels (1936) |
The Shooting Party (1984) |
Upstairs/Downstairs (1971-1975) |
The Forsyte Sage |
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A Room With a View (1986) |
The Corn is Green (1945) |
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) |
I Accuse (1958) |
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Madame Curie (1943) |
Moulin Rouge (1952) |
Lust for Life (1956) |
Freud (1962) |
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Prisoner of Honor (HBO) |
Magic Flute (1975) |
The Man Who Would Be King |
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XI) THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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A Night to Remember (1958) |
Muss Julie (1950) |
A Doll's House (1973) |
Elvira Madigan (1967) |
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The Great Train Robbery |
Breaker Morant |
Sergeant York (1941) |
Potemkin (1925) |
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Pelle the Conqueror (1988) |
Nicholas and Alexandra (1972) |
The Fixer (1968) |
Reds (1981) |
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Dr. Shivago (1965) |
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
Life is Beautiful (1997) |
Primo Levi: The Memory of the Offense. PBS, 1996 |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
Gallipoli (1981) |
Paths of Glory (1957) |
Ship of Fools (1965) |
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Triumph of the Will (1934) |
Wilson (1944) |
Swing Kids (1993) |
The African Queen (1951) |
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Chariots of Fire (1981) |
Rules of the Game (1939) |
Cabaret (1972) |
The Damned (1969) |
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The Tin Drum (1979) |
The Conformist (1970) |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(1970) |
Remains of the Day (1994) |
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The Great Dictator (1940) |
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) |
Hitler's Children (1943) |
Foreign Correspondent (1940) |
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Patton (1970) |
Bridge of the River Kwai (1957) |
The Longest Day (1962) |
A Bridge Too Far (1977) |
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Das Boot (1982) |
Mrs. Miniver (1942) |
The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) |
The Dairy of Anne Frank (1959) |
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Judgment at Nuremburg (1961) |
Judgment at Nuremburg (2000) |
Casablanca (1942) |
Schindler's List (1993) |
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The Last Metro (1980) |
Is Paris Burning? (1966) |
Hope and Glory (1987) |
Europa, Europa
(1990) |
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The Train (1964) |
The Nasty Girl (1990) |
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) |
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
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The Third Man (1949) |
The Bicycle Thief (1948) |
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) |
La Dolce Vita (1961) |
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Look Back in Anger (1959) |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) |
Exodus (1960) |
The Prisoner (1955) |
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One Day in the Life of Evan Denisovich
(1970) |
Z (1969) |
The Missiles of October (1974) |
Michael Collins (1996) |
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) |
A Clockwork Orange (1972) |
1984 (1984) |
Fahrenheit (1966) |
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Brazil (1985) |
To Have and Have Not (1944) |
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