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  • Featured Movies
    • 12 Years a Slave (2013)
    • 1941 (Spielberg) >
      • 1941: Part 2
    • Affair of the Necklace
    • Alice's Restaurant: best of the American counterculture movies?
    • Army of Crime
    • Army of Shadows
    • The Artist >
      • 'The Artist':2
    • Anthropoid: the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 1942: Four Very Different Movies >
      • Hangmen Also Die: Hollywood meets emigres from Nazi Germany
    • Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    • Battle of the Rails ( La bataille du rail)
    • Belle (2014)
    • Bhowani Junction
    • Blackboard Jungle >
      • Blackboard Jungle Pt.2
    • Carry On Up the Khyber
    • Charlie Wilson's War
    • The City Across the River
    • The Counterculture : best movies about the American counterculture era
    • Custer - two contrasting movie portrayals: "They Died With Their Boots On" and "Little Big Man" >
      • They Died With Their Boots On
      • Stalin and the Movies >
        • Stalin, Disney, Eisenstein, & Ivan the Terrible
      • Death of Stalin
      • Little Big Man (1970)
    • Dark Knight Rises >
      • Dark Knight Rises Pt.2
    • The Deceivers
    • Diplomacy / Diplomatie (2014) movie
    • Dunkirk: Christopher Nolan's epic movie
    • El Cid
    • The Enigma Machine : four movies about the Enigma machine
    • Generation War >
      • Generation War: Jazz and the Swing Kids
      • Generation War: German women and the war
    • The Great Gatsby On the Big Screen
    • Gunga Din
    • A Hard Day's Night: Influences on the Movie
    • Hemingway & Gellhorn >
      • Martha Gellhorn >
        • Women war correspondents
    • Hyde Park on Hudson
    • The Imitation Game (2014) >
      • The Imitation Game Part 2: the truth about Turing and the Bletchley 'Bombe'. >
        • The Imitation Game: Turing, Bletchley and the Colossus >
          • Imitation Game: Turing, Bletchley Park and the Soviet spy
    • The Inner Circle (1991)
    • Is Paris Burning? >
      • Is Paris Burning? General von Choltitz
    • KIng of the Khyber Rifles
    • Kim
    • Léon Morin, Priest
    • Les Miserables (2012) >
      • Les Miserables in Movies: Fantine the grisette >
        • Les Miserables 3: guide to some historical references
    • "Les Misérables": Claude Lelouch updates a classic
    • Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
    • The Long Duel
    • Looking at Lincoln - Spielberg's "Lincoln" & its predecessors and influences >
      • Spielberg's Lincoln
      • Abraham Lincoln: D.W. Griffith's version
      • Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
      • Abe Lincoln in Illinois
    • Mandingo (1975) Dir: Richard Fleischer
    • The Man Who Would Be King
    • Marie Antoinette (2006)
    • Marie-Antoinette / Shadow of the Guillotine
    • Farewell, My Queen
    • Marie Antoinette (1938) >
      • Marie Antoinette (1938) Pt.2
    • Mayerling
    • Midnight in Paris >
      • Midnight in Paris:2 >
        • Midnight in Paris:3
    • The Monuments Men (2014) Dir: George Clooney
    • North West Frontier / Flame Over India
    • La Nuit de Varennes - a post-modern take on a key episode in the French Revolution
    • Le Pere Tranquille (The Quiet Father) 1946
    • Peterloo: MIke Leigh's New Movie >
      • Peterloo2
    • Pompeii in the movies >
      • Pompeii (2014) Paul W.S. Anderson director
    • Rebel Without a Cause
    • Ridicule
    • Scott Fitzgerald Goes to Hollywood
    • Sergeant Rutledge
    • Silence of the Sea
    • Swing Kids (1993)
    • The Train
    • Train to Pakistan
    • Stranglers of Bombay
    • Tonka
    • Tulip Fever
    • Viceroy's House
    • The Vikings
    • Vietnam Westerns: western movies and the Vietnam war
    • Wee Willie Winkie
    • The Wind and the Lion
    • Woman in Gold >
      • Woman in Gold Pt.2: the Vienna Scene in early 20th Century Vienna
    • Un village française: French TV series
    • Waterloo: the movie about Napoleon's final battle
    • Zabriskie Point
  • Places
    • Settings: the North West Frontier
    • Movies Set in the North-West Frontier >
      • Thuggees
    • Movies Set in Paris and Versailles
  • Events
    • Events That Inspired Movies 2
    • French Resistance and Collaboration in World War II: Selected Movies
  • People
    • People Part 2
  • Music
    • Rock Around the Clock
    • Don't Knock the Rock
    • The Girl Can't Help It >
      • Pt2:The Girl Can't Help It
  • Free State of Jones
  • Great Wall (2017)
  • Rogue One & World War 2
  • Hollywood and anti-Americanism in a small country: Amercan movies & their critics in New Zealand 1916 - 1956
    • New Zealanders' Love of Movies 1900s-1956
    • Campaign against Hollywood movies in New Zealand
    • Campaign against HollywoodPt 2
  • Hollywood versus Pinewood Pt2
  • New Zealanders and Movies: the Enigmatic Gordon Mirams: film critic, film censor and public intellectual
  • Aryan Papers: Stanley Kubrick's Proposed Movie

The events that inspired the movies 

The American Civil War, 1861 - 1865

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At the start of the civil war, the chief issue was preserving the UNion. By 1864 the emancipation of slavery had become crucial.
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Lincoln delivering his Gettyburg Address, although the size of the crowd and the number of dignitaries on stage was probably not as great as this illustration suggests. This event is included in Spielberg's "Lincoln".
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One of the many recruiting posters enticing men to volunteer for the conflict. The uniform pictured might have been glamorous; however, it made its wearer a fine target on the battlefield.

The 1857 Indian Revolt / Mutiny 

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The revoit in Lucknow.
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Scene from 1953's 'King of the Khyber Rifles', set in northwest India at the time of mutiny.

The 'Great Game': the West v. Russia in Afghanistan / North-West Frontier India

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The British army 's retreat from Afghanistan - final stand at Gandamak.
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Scene from 'Charlie Wilson's War': the USA arms the Taliban in order to defeat Russian forces.

The Campaign Against the Thuggees

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Thuggees as worshippers at a shrine to Kali.
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Book written by W.H. Sleeman, the scourge of the Thuggees.
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19th Century engraving of Thuggees captured by British.

Death at Mayerling Lodge, Austria, 1889

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Illustration supposedly depicting mourners viewing corpse of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary.
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Section of the Mayerling Scloss [Lodge] formerly belonging to the Austrian royal family, site of the famous double suicide of Rudolf and his teenage mistress Mary Vetsera.
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The Mayerling Lodge in the 1880s.

Wartime Paranoia in Los Angeles, 1941-1943

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Early 1942 - a lone Japanese submarine shells oils installations off Santa Barbara and sparks a panic in LA. The first section of Spielberg's '1941' makes use of the hysteria that ensued.
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Mid-1943 - racial tensions flare into violent riots as US military personnel and police attack Mexican-Americans wearing 'soot suits'. Spielberg incorporated rioting scenes in '1941' but attributed them to intra-service rivalry not racism.

The Spanish Civil War, 1936 -1939

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Pablo Picasso's famous painting 'Guernica' depicting the German bombing of the Spanish town during the civil war. The conflict produced some artistic and literary masterpieces such as this painting, Hemingway's novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia'.
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A Republican {Left-wing government) poster.
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Death of a combatant in the conflict. Robert Capa took this most famous of all war photos.

The American Counterculture of the 1960s

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Hollywood hoped that the public interest in the counterculture movement would translate into big money at the box office.
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The 'free sex', anti-establishment ethos of the counterculture helped produce a more liberal atmosphere for younger movie-makers.
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The flower power era for Hollywood actually produced few good films about the counterculture, but a lot of duds like "Zabriskie Point".

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