Recommended Film List
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INTERNATIONAL SECTION FILM SUGGESTIONS THE FIRST GULF WAR THE VICTORIAN PERIOD The Bridge on the River Kwai Three Kings The Age of Innocence The Longest Day The Importance of Being Earnest The Great Escape IRAQ The Picture of Dorian Grey The Train The Hurt Locker The Charge of the Light Brigade Von Ryan’s Express Green Zone Oliver Twist Battle of Britain In the Valley of Elah A Christmas Carol A Bridge Too Far Wuthering Heights Eye of the Needle CAMBODIA Dracula Hope and Glory The Killing Fields Tess Memphis Belle The Young Victoria The Land Girls TERRORISM Sherlock Holmes Life is Beautiful The Kingdom An Ideal Husband Saving Private Ryan Body of Lies Jane Eyre The Thin Red Line O Jerusalem The Mill on the Floss U-571 Munich Our Mutual Friend Band of Brothers (series) Patriot Games The Mayor of Casterbridge Charlotte Gray Lord of War The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (mini Enigma series) Amen 9/11 Middlemarch The Pianist 9/11 Wives and Daughters Black Book The World Trade Centre North and South Atonement United 93 Daniel Deronda Valkyrie Fahrenheit 9/11 Victoria and Albert The Diary of Anne Frank Sherlock Holmes The Odessa File MONEY Portrait of a Lady Schindler’s List Wall Street Great Expectations Pearl Harbour The Firm Anna Karenina Life of Others Trading Places Enemy at the Gates Casino COLONIALISM Casablanca Master and Commander Patton CIVIL WAR IN RWANDA Ghandi Das Boot Hotel Rwanda The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) Tora Tora Tora Lawrence of Arabia Flags of our Fathers CIVIL WAR IN SIERRA LEONE A Passage to India Stalingrad Blood Diamond Michael Collins Zulu VIETNAM SOUTH AFRICA Out of Africa Apocalypse Now Invictus The Last King of Scotland Platoon Goodbye Bafana Room with a View Full Metal Jacket Cry Freedom The White Countess Good Morning Vietnam Indiana Jones and the Temple of The Deer Hunter AUSTRALIA Doom Born 4th July Rabbit-proof fence Australia THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE COLD WAR The Patriot Thirteen Days (Cuban Missile Crisis) The Crossing The Good Shepherd (Bay of Pigs) John Adams (mini series) The Spy who came in from the Cold Benedict Arnold: A Question of Good Night Good Luck (McCarthy) Honor The Hunt for the Red October Charlie Wilson’s War WORLD WAR ONE The Quiet American Paths of Glory All Quiet on the Western Front AFGHANISTAN Flyboys Lions for Lambs Beneath Hill 60 Restrepo Regeneration The Kite Runner The War Horse Green Zone In this World WORLD WAR TWO The Cruel Sea ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS The Departed Into the Wild All the Presidents’ Men (Nixon) The Godfather Apollo 13 Frost/Nixon American Gangster Citizen Kane JFK Scarface The Sting W (George Bush) Once Upon a Time in America 12 Angry Men Bush’s Brain The Untouchables One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Lincoln L.A. Confidential Witness In the line of Fire The Godfather Erin Brockovich Primary Colors The Godfather: Part II A Winter’s Bone The Kennedys (mini series) Mean Streets Crash The Sopranos (series) Inside Jobs SPORT Reservoir Dogs Holes The Fighter Pulp Fiction Hunger Games Million Dollar Baby Gangs of New York District Nine The Blind Side Fargo (the recent television series) CIVIL WAR / SLAVERY THE CIA Amistad Spy Game Gone with the wind Body of Lies Glory Salt On Cold Mountain The Bourne Trilogy Roots The Quiet American Glory The Recruit Gettysburg Sniper Behind enemy lines THE GREAT DEPRESSION J Edgar The Grapes of Wrath Geronimo Places in the Heart Zero Dark Thirty Of Mice and Men Argo Places in the Heart COMEDY CIVIL RIGHTS This is Spinal Tap Mississippi Burning When Harry Met Sally The Long Walk Home Little Miss Sunshine Malcolm X The Help IMMIGRATION IN THE USA Ghosts of Mississippi Bread and Roses The Butler West Side Story Crossing Over THE SOUTH Under the same Moon To kill a Mockingbird The Visitor Fried Green Tomatoes In America Driving Miss Daisy The Emigrants Coal Miner’s daughter Angela’s Ashes The New Land WESTERN High Noon MISCELLANEOUS True Grit Gran Torino Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Horse Whisperer Django Unchained About Schmidt Snow Falling on the Cedars NATIVE AMERICAN Sicko Dances with Wolves Bowling for Columbine The Last of the Mohicans Do the Right Thing Little Big Man Sunset Boulevard Forrest Gump AFRICAN AMERICAN Dead Poets’ Society Guess who’s coming to dinner The Great Gatsby The Color Purple Mystic Pizza Do the Right Thing The Night of the Hunter The Truman Show MAFIA/GANGSTER Harold and Maud Goodfellas The Graduate ASPECTS OF BRITISH LIFE SPORT Northanger Abbey 1970s Chariots of Fire Vanity Fair Fawlty Towers Elizabeth, the Golden Age ESPIONAGE Gosford Park COMEDY Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Series: The Tudors Love Actually The Day of the Jackal The Other Boleyn Girl Bridget Jones Get Carter The Loneliness of the Long Distance A fish called Wanda The Fourth Protocol Runner 4 weddings and a funeral James Bond Casino Royale/Skyfall Kes Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Ghostwriter Gregory’s Girl Monty Python’s Life of Brian The Third Man Howard’s End The Maltese Falcon A Man for all Seasons EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT Psycho The Iron Lady Billy Elliot Vertigo 1984 This is England My Family and other Animals The Full Monty SOCIETY Anonymous Secrets and lies Never Let me Go GREAT SHAKESPEARE FILMS Trainspotting Downton Abbey (series) A Midsummer Night’s Dream My Beautiful Laundrette (Hoffman) A Clockwork Orange INTEGRATION Love’s Labour Lost (Branagh) Educating Rita East is East Merchant of Venice Notting Hill Bend it like Beckham Much ado about Nothing 28 Days Later A fond kiss Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) IRELAND THE ROYAL FAMILY Sunday, Bloody Sunday The Queen Michael Collins The King’s speech The Wind That Shakes the Barley The Crying Game 1960s In the Name of the Father Alfie (1996) The Italian job LIFE IN OTHER TIMES The Boat That Rocks Shakespeare in love Vera Drake Remains of the day Made in Dagenham The Duchess Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma .