AP United States History Summer Assignment 2017 - Mrs. Feighery Email/ Google Account: [email protected]
The purpose of this assignment is to get you thinking about American history, and the role that History can play in our lives, as well as to get a head start in preparing for the AP exam in May. It is also an opportunity for me to assess your writing ability as you enter the course and prepare for the year. A further objective of the AP US summer assignment is to help you develop your time management skills, which will be important during the year. The guided reading assignments for Chapters 1-4 will be due during the summer and the due dates will be posted on Google Classroom. Your movie review assignment is to be completed and turned in on the first day of school and will count towards your first marking period grade. Please join the AP US History Google Classroom, which can be found by going to classroom.google.com and creating a student account. Click on the + and join the APUSH Summer Assignment Class using the following group code: zf8jc1.
Assignment 1: Read and answer the questions and identifications for the American Pageant Chapters 1-4 using the Guided Reading Assignments included in this packet, or complete the assignments online in Google Classroom. Handwritten or typed is fine for the Summer Assignment. You will use this method of organizing information throughout the school year with each chapter in the textbook.
Assignment 2: Choose one historical movie from the attached list and view the movie. Write a Movie Review that is a minimum of two, but not more than three, pages in length. Please follow the guidelines below to insure that your review is complete!
Guidelines for Movie Review
1. Please put a heading on your paper. Must be typed, 12 point font, and double spaced; no longer than 3 pages in length and shared with me on the first day of school, either in Google Classroom or a hard copy.
2. First sentence should include the name of film, leading actors/actresses/, director, the date of release, and main point or thesis of the film. (Is it based on a book?)
3. A brief summary of the plot.
4. Historical Accuracy – Were the movie characters based on actual people? If so, who were they and were they and were they treated accurately? Were there any real events (battles, protests, laws, etc.)? If so, were they historically accurate? If there were no real characters or events, it was probably a conscious decision on the part of the writers and director. Try to analyze why reality was omitted. Parenthetically, cite any sources you use.
5. Setting – When and where was the movie set? If several locations were used, were they all depicted realistically? How long a time span did it cover? Were the houses, furnishings, foods, tools, music, weapons, clothes, hairstyles, shoes, etc. shown with accuracy? Give examples of period props you think especially well or especially poorly presented.
6. Evaluation – Provide an evaluation of the film. Don’t just say “I liked it because it was a good movie” or “I hated it because it was boring.” Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the movie. Which actors did a good job and which were inadequate? Were there places where the plot was weak? If the film was done years ago, would it be done differently now? Why? What would have made the film better? Would you recommend the film to another student? Use examples from the film to support your points. (continued on next page)
7. Include a separate Works Cited page citing your sources using MLA format. Suggestion! Take a brief list of notes while watching the film and back up your ideas with specific examples.
See you in September!!
2017 APUSH SUMMER ASSIGNMENT THEME #1 EXPLORATION and DISCOVERY BIG PICTURE THEMES: Chapter #1: New World Beginnings (pages 4 – 24) 1. The New World, before Columbus, there were many different Native American tribes. These people were very diverse. In what’s today the U.S., there were an estimated 400 tribes, often speaking different languages. It’s inaccurate to think of “Indians” as a homogeneous group.
2. Columbus came to America looking for a trade route to the East Indies (Spice Islands). Other explorers quickly realized this was an entirely New World and came to lay claim to the new lands for their host countries. Spain and Portugal had the head start on France and then England.
3. The coming together of the two worlds had world changing effects. The biological exchange cannot be underestimated. Food was swapped back and forth and truly revolutionized what people ate. On the bad side, European diseases wiped out an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS: Chapter #1: New World Beginnings (pages 4 – 24) Please answer each guided reading question in paragraph form.
Introduction Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Old World, New World
1. What conditions existed in what is today the United States that made it "fertile ground" for a great nation?
The Shaping of North America Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Appalachian Mountains, Tidewater Region, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Great Lakes, Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio River System
2. Speculate how at least one geographic feature affected the development of the United States.
Peopling the Americas Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Beringia Land Bridge, Incas, Aztecs
3. "Before the arrival of Europeans, the settlement of the Americas was insignificant." Assess this statement.
The Earliest Americans Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Maize, Pueblo, Mound Builders, Three-sister Farming, Cherokee, Iroquois
4. Describe some of the common features North American Indian culture.
Indirect Discoverers of the New World Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Finland, Crusaders 5. What caused Europeans to begin exploring?
Europeans Enter Africa Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Marco Polo, Caravel, Plantation system
6. What were the results of the Portuguese explorations of Africa?
Columbus Comes upon a New World Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Columbus
7. What developments set the stage for “a cataclysmic shift in the course of history?”
When Worlds Collide Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Columbian Exchange, Corn, Potatoes, Sugar, Horses, Smallpox
8. Explain the positive and negative effects of the Atlantic Exchange.
The Spanish Conquistadors Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Treaty of Tordesillas, Capitalism, Encomienda 9. Were the conquistadors great men? Explain.
Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadors Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Granada, Moors, "Reconquista"
10. Were the conquistadors' motives successfully fulfilled? Explain.
The Conquest of Mexico Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Hernan Cortes, Tenochtitlan, Montezuma, Mestizos 11. Why was Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs?
The Spread of Spanish America Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Pope's Rebellion, Mission Indians, Black Legend
12. What is the “Black Legend,” and to what extent does our text agree with it?
2017 APUSH SUMMER ASSIGNMENT THEME #2 EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT
BIG PICTURE THEMES: Chapter #2 The Planting of English America (pp. 24 – 40) 1. Jamestown, VA was founded with the initial goal of making money via gold. They found no gold, but did find a cash crop in tobacco.
2. Other southern colonies sprouted up due to (a) the desire for more tobacco land as with North Carolina, (b) the desire for religious freedom as with Maryland, (c) the natural extension of a natural port in South Carolina, or (d) as a “second chance” colony as with Georgia.
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS: Chapter #2 The Planting of English America (pp. 24 – 40) Please answer each guided reading question in paragraph form.
England's Imperial Stirrings Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.) : Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, Protestant Reformation
1 Why was England slow to establish New World colonies?
Elizabeth Energizes England Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke Island, Virginia, Spanish Armada
2 What steps from 1575-1600 brought England closer to colonizing the New World?
England on the Eve of Empire Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Enclosure Movement, Primogeniture, Joint-stock company
3 Explain how conditions in England around 1600 made it "ripe" to colonize N. America.
England Plants the Jamestown Seedling Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Virginia Company, Charter, Jamestown, John Smith, Powhatan, Pocahontas, Starving Time, Lord De La Warr
4. Give at least three reasons that so many of the Jamestown settlers died.
Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Powhatan's Confederacy, Anglo-Powhatan Wars (First and Second)
5. What factors led to the poor relations between Europeans and Native Americans in Virginia?
Virginia: Child of Tobacco Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): John Rolfe, Tobacco, House of Burgesses
6. "By 1620 Virginia had already developed many of the features that were important to it two centuries later." Explain.
Maryland: Catholic Haven Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Lord Baltimore, Indentured Servants, Act of Toleration
7. In what ways was Maryland different than Virginia?
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): West Indies, Sugar, Barbados Slave Code 8 What historical consequences resulted from the cultivation of sugar instead of tobacco in the British colonies in the West Indies?
Colonizing the Carolinas Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, Rice
9. Why did Carolina become a place for aristocratic whites and many black slaves?
The Emergence of North Carolina Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Squatters
10 North Carolina was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit." Explain.
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): James Oglethorpe, Buffer
11. In what ways was Georgia unique among the Southern colonies?
The Plantation Colonies 12. Which Southern colony was the most different from the others? Explain.
2017 APUSH SUMMER ASSIGNMENT THEME #3 ENGLISH SETTLEMENT BIG PICTURE THEMES: Chapter #3: Settling the Northern Colonies (pages 41 – 59) 1. Plymouth, MA was founded with the initial goal of allowing Pilgrims, and later Puritans, to worship independent of the Church of England. Their society, ironically, was very intolerant itself and any dissenters were pushed out of the colony. 2. Other New England colonies sprouted up, due to (a) religious dissent from Plymouth and Massachusetts as with Rhode Island, (b) the constant search for more farmland as in Connecticut, and (c) just due to natural growth as in Maine.
3. The Middle Colonies emerged as the literal crossroads of the north and south. They held the stereotypical qualities of both regions: agricultural and industrial. And they were unique in that (a) New York was born of Dutch heritage rather than English, and (b) Pennsylvania thrived more than any other colony due to its freedoms and tolerance.
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS: Chapter #3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619—1700 Please answer each guided reading question in paragraph form.
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): John Calvin, Conversion Experience, Predestination, Visible Saints, Church of England, Puritans, Separatists
1. How did John Calvin's teachings result in some Englishmen wanting to leave England?
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Mayflower, Myles Standish, Mayflower Compact, Plymouth, William Bradford
2 Explain the factors that contributed to the success of the Plymouth colony.
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Puritans, Charles I, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Great Migration, John Winthrop
3 Why did the Puritans come to America?
Building the Bay Colony Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Freemen, Bible Commonwealth, John Cotton, Protestant Ethic
4 How democratic was the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Explain.
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Anne Hutchinson, Antinomianism, Roger Williams
5. What happened to people whose religious beliefs differed from others in Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Rhode Island "Sewer" Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Freedom of Religion
6 How was Rhode Island different than Massachusetts?
Makers of America: The English 7. In what ways did the British North American colonies reflect their mother country?
New England Spreads Out Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Thomas Hooker, Fundamental Orders
8. Describe how Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire were settled.
Puritans versus Indians Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Squanto, Massasoit, Pequot War, Praying Towns, Metacom, King Philip's War
9 Why did hostilities arise between Puritans and Native Americans? What was the result?
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): New England Confederation, Charles II
10. Assess the following statement, "The British colonies were beginning to grow closer to each other by 1700."
Andros Promotes the First American Revolution Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Dominion of New England, Navigation Laws, Edmund Andros, Glorious Revolution, William and Mary, Salutary Neglect
11. How did events in England affect the New England colonies' development?
Old Netherlanders at New Netherlands Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Dutch East India Company, Henry Hudson, New Amsterdam, Patroonships
12. Explain how settlement by the Dutch led to the type of city that New York is today.
Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Wall Street, New Sweden, Peter Stuyvesant, Log Cabins
13. "Vexations beset the Dutch company-colony from the beginning." Explain.
Dutch Residues in New York Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Duke of York
14. Do the Dutch have an important legacy in the United States? Explain.
Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Quakers, William Penn
15. What had William Penn and other Quakers experienced that would make them want a colony in America?
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): East New Jersey, West New Jersey, Delaware
16. Why was Pennsylvania attractive to so many Europeans and Native Americans?
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Middle Colonies, Benjamin Franklin
17. What do the authors mean when the say that the middle colonies were the most American?
2017 APUSH SUMMER ASSIGNMENT THEME #4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century
BIG PICTURE THEME: Chapter #4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century (pages 60 – 77) 1. The Southern colonies were dominated by agriculture, namely (a) tobacco in the Chesapeake and (b) rice and indigo further down the coast.
2. Bacon’s Rebellion is very representative of the struggles of poor white indentured servants. Nathaniel Bacon and his followers took to arms to essentially get more land out west from the Indians. This theme of poor whites taking to arms for land, and in opposition to eastern authorities, will be repeated several times (Shay’s Rebellion, Paxton Boys, Whisky Rebellion).
3. Taken altogether, the southern colonies were inhabited by a group of people who were generally young, independent-minded, industrious, backwoodsy, down home, restless and industrious.
4. A truly unique African-American culture quickly emerged. Brought as slaves, black Americans blended aspects of African culture with American. Religion shows this blend clearly, as African religious ceremonies mixed with Christianity. Food and music also showed African-American uniqueness.
5. New Englanders developed a Bible Commonwealth—a stern but clear society where the rules of society were dictated by the laws of the Bible. This good-vs-evil society is best illustrated by the Salem witch trials. 6. Taken altogether, the northern colonies were inhabited by a group of people who grew to be self-reliant, stern, pious, proud, family oriented, sharp in thought and sharp of tongue, crusty, and very industrious.
GUIDED READINGS: Chapter #4 American Life 1607-1692 Please answer each guided reading question in paragraph form.
The Unhealthy Chesapeake
1. "Life in the American wilderness was nasty, brutish, and short for the earliest Chesapeake settlers." Explain.
The Tobacco Economy
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Tobacco, Indentured Servants, Freedom Dues, Headright System
2. What conditions in Virginia made the colony right for the importation of indentured servants?
Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon
3. Who is most to blame for Bacon's rebellion, the upper class or the lower class? Explain.
Colonial Slavery
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Royal African Company, Middle Passage, Slave Codes, Chattel Slavery
4. Describe the slave trade.
Africans in America
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Gullah, Stono Rebellion
5. Describe slave culture and contributions.
Southern Society
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Plantations, Yeoman Farmers
6. Describe southern culture in the colonial period, noting social classes.
The New England Family Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): The Scarlet Letter 7. What was it like to be a woman in New England?
Life in the New England Towns
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Harvard, Town Meetings
8. Explain the significance of New England towns to the culture there.
The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trial
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Conversions, Half-Way Covenant
9. What evidence shows that New England was becoming more diverse as the 17th century wore on?
The New England Way of Life
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Yankee Ingenuity
10. How did the environment shape the culture of New England?
The Early Settlers' Days and Ways
Terms to Know (Write the definitions if it helps you know them.): Leisler's Rebellion
11. How much equality was evident in the colonies?
APUSH Movie List Unit 1: Colonization Unit 10: Cold War Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) Post-WWII Economy & Society 1492: Conquest of Paradise Salesman Apocalypto Death of a Salesman The New World A Beautiful Mind The Mission Awakenings Black Robe Good Night & Good Luck America: The Story of Us - Rebels The Majestic The Scarlet Letter Citizen Cohn The Crucible Point of Order The Last of the Mohicans The Good Shepherd Atomic Cafe Unit 2: Revolutionary Era Radio Bikini Chosin Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World American Experience: The Lobotomist 1776 American Experience: The Polio Crusade The Crossing Pleasantville The Patriot American Experience: Tupperware! America: The Story of Us - Revolution Julie & Julia National Treasure
Space Race & Cold War Technology Unit 3: New Nation October Sky John Adams The Right Stuff Ken Burns: Thomas Jefferson From the Earth to the Moon Sally Hemings: An American Scandal When We Left Earth Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Apollo 13 Discovery American Experience: The Living Weapon Sacagawea Capote The War of 1812 Dr. Strangelove American Experience: Dolley Madison J. Edgar Hoffa Unit 4: Expansion, Reform & Thirteen Days JFK Sectional Crisis The Kennedys Roots Bobby Amistad American Experience: The Kennedys The Color Purple The Motorcycle Diaries 12 Years a Slave Che American Experience: The Abolitionists I Am Cuba Frederick Douglass Fidel Castro Underground Railroad: The History Channel America: The Story of Us - Superpower Underground Railroad: The William Still Story Julie & Julia The Trail of Tears Monterrey Pop America: The Story of Us - Westward Woodstock America: The Story of Us - Division Quiz Show The Alamo 54 Walker (1987) Cider House Rules
Norma Rae Unit 5: Civil War & Reconstruction Vietnam War The Fog of War Ken Burns: The Civil War In the Year of the Pig America: The Story of Us - Civil War Hearts & Minds Ironclads American Experience: My Lai American Experience: Robert E. Lee Rescue Dawn American Experience: U.S. Grant - Warrior We Were Soldiers Gods & Generals Platoon Gettysburg Born on the Fourth of July Glory The Deer Hunter American Experience: Death & the Civil War Full Metal Jacket American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln - Good Morning, Vietnam A House Divided Apocalypse Now American Experience: The Assassination of The Most Dangerous Man in America Abraham Lincoln The Killing Fields Lincoln Berkeley in the Sixties Killing Lincoln The Weather Underground National Treasure 2 Gone with the Wind Nixon & Ford Administrations Birth of a Nation The Battle of Chile Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War One Bright Shining Moment Cold Mountain All the President’s Men American Experience: Walt Whitman Nixon Frost/Nixon Unit 6: Gilded Age, Populism Carter Administration and Progressivism Argo Coal Miners Miracle Hatfields & McCoys
The Molly Maguires Reagan Administration Matewan God in America: Episode 6 - Of God & Caesar
Silkwood The Wild West War Games Ken Burns: The West Charlie Wilson's War America: The Story of Us - Heartland The Hunt for Red October Far and Away Crimson Tide Outlaws & Gunslingers Romero Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
High Noon The Magnificent Seven Unit 11: People's Movements African Americans & Civil Rights True Grit Shane 42 Tombstone To Kill a Mockingbird Wyatt Earp A Raisin in the Sun American Experience: Wyatt Earp American Experience: A Class Apart American Experience: Annie Oakley The Help American Experience: Billy the Kid Far From Heaven American Experience: Jesse James Remember the Titans The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Architects of Civil Rights Robert Ford The Rosa Parks Story American Experience: Dinosaur Wars American Experience: Freedom Riders American Experience: Buffalo Bill American Experience: Soundtrack for a Revolution Buffalo Soldiers Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement Plains Indians The Murder of Emmett Till American Experience: Custer's Last Stand Four Little Girls Fort Apache Mississippi Burning Dances with Wolves Ghosts of Mississippi Little Big Man The Last White Knight Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee A Force More Powerful There Will Be Blood Citizen King Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream Immigration, Industrialization & Urbanization Dr. Martin Luther King: A Historical Perspective The Men Who Built America Been to the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr. American Experience: The Rockefellers American Experience: Roads to Memphis - The The Wright Brothers' Flying Machine Assassination of Martin Luther King Thomas Edison: Father of Invention Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement Tesla: Master of Lightning Thurgood Marshall: Justice For All The Prestige We Shall Overcome Madness in the White City Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin American Experience: Henry Ford Malcolm X Henry Ford: Tin Lizzie Tycoon Panther America: The Story of Us - Cities When We Were Kings Ken Burns: Mark Twain Ali Gangs of New York Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later American Experience: Triangle Fire Searching for the Promised Land The Godfather, Part II The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Hispanics & Latinos Unit 7: America on the World American Experience: Roberto Clemente
Stage Native Americans The Last Samurai We Shall Remain: Episode 5 - Wounded Knee Hawaii’s Last Queen Trudell Amigo Smoke Signals Rough Riders
American Experience: Panama Canal Youth & Pop Culture American Experience: The Greeley Expedition Rebel Without a Cause All Quiet on the Western Front Quiz Show Battleship Potemkin Monterrey Pop American Experience: The Great Famine Woodstock Lawrence of Arabia 54 Strike
Reds Women Johnny Got His Gun The Cider House Rules A Farewell to Arms
American Experience: Influenza 1918 Antiwar Movement
King: A Man of Peace in a Time of War Unit 8: Prosperity & Depression The Weather Underground Sacco & Vanzetti Rosewood Gay Liberation Eight Men Out American Experience: Stonewall Uprising Field of Dreams Milk A League of Their Own The Times of Harvey Milk Iron Jawed Angels How to Survive a Plague O Brother Where Art Thou? Dear Jesse Inherit the Wind The Great Debaters Consumer Rights Ken Burns: Jazz Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man Ragtime Bird Environmentalism The Great Gatsby American Experience: Earth Days The Aviator Silkwood American Experience: Amelia Earhart American Experience: War of the Worlds Labor America: The Story of Us - Boom* Norma Rae Citizen Kane Harlan County, USA The Untouchables Road to Perdition Other Social Issues Public Enemies American Experience: Jonestown - The Life & Reefer Madness Death of Peoples Temple American Experience: The Crash of 1929 America: The Story of Us - Bust Unit 12: Into the 21st Century American Experience: Mount Rushmore Foreign Policy American Experience: Hoover Dam Jarhead American Experience: Grand Coulee Dam Three Kings Frank Lloyd Wright The Devil's Double Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl Black Hawk Down American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl Captain Phillips Black Blizzard Hotel Rwanda East of Eden Sometimes in April The Grapes of Wrath The Constant Gardener Of Mice & Men Breach The March of the Bonus Army Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry American Experience: The Hurricane of '38 World Trade Center American Experience: Riding the Rails United 93 American Experience: Seabiscuit 9/11 Seabiscuit Fahrenheit 9/11 Cinderella Man The Special Relationship American Experience: FDR American Experience: Civilian Conservation Corps W. American Experience: Huey Long Frontline: Bush's War Warm Springs Iraq for Sale The Hurt Locker No End in Sight Unit 9: World War II Standard Operating Procedure Dirty Wars Road to War Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden Triumph of the Will Zero Dark Thirty The Great Dictator The Square The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Ken Burns: The War Economics
Roger & Me European Theater Barbarians at the Gates America: The Story of Us - World War II Wall Street Casablanca Trading Places Das Boot Coming to America Enemy at the Gates The Insider The Longest Day American Experience: Silicon Valley Saving Private Ryan Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Band of Brothers Capitalism: A Love Story Patton Detropia A Bridge Too Far Inequality for All The Tuskegee Airmen
Red Tails Politics American Experience: The Bombing of Germany American Experience: Jimmy Carter Slaughterhouse Five American Experience: Reagan Saints & Soldiers American Experience: Clinton Valkyrie Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Downfall Hot Coffee
Mitt Pacific Theater
Empire of the Sun Environmentalism Tora Tora Tora An Inconvenient Truth Pearl Harbor Gasland Midway Gasland II Bridge on the River Kwai The Thin Red Line Media The Pacific Page One: Inside the New York Times Flags of Our Fathers Miss Representation Letters from Iwo Jima The Social Network Windtalkers We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks American Experience: Victory in the Pacific The Fifth Estate The Manhattan Project Helvetica Hiroshima Trinity & Beyond Social Issues Fat Man and Little Boy Powwow Highway American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Trudell Oppenheimer Reel Injun Smoke Signals Homefront & Holocaust Lone Star American Pastime Freedom Writers The Rape of Europa Waiting for Superman The Sorrow and the Pity Bully Schindler’s List Bowling for Columbine Life is Beautiful American History X The Pianist Bamboozled Traffic The House I Live In America: The Story of Us - Millenium Facing the New Millenium Man on Wire A Mighty Heart Sicko Lake of Fire Hoop Dreams Urbanized Supersize Me 30 Days