Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), Barbary Coast (1975), Inherit the Wind (1960), Wilson (1944), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999), Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997), Sunrise at Campobello (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best American History movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, education, kindness, social impact, american history, personal growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A special agent tracks criminals in 1870s San Francisco.
Plot Keywords: adventure, western, drama, historical, crime, romance, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, historical drama, american history, evolution, cultural conflict, based on true events, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Woodrow Wilson (Alexander Knox) goes from Princeton to the White House and promotes the League of Nations.
Plot Keywords: war, history, biography, politics, world war i, international relations, white house ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, biography, race, american history, slavery, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Chuck Workman charts the achievements of Beat notables Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady.
Plot Keywords: documentary, counterculture, american culture, rebellion, social change, cultural revolution, underground culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary about the 1993 showdown between the FBI and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, presents an alternate theory about the tragedy. The government has long contended that this fringe Christian group was a danger, and that the siege on its compound, which resulted in the death of 70 people, was necessary. Director William Gazecki, using footage from the siege and the Congressional hearings that followed it, asserts that American forces may have attacked a peaceful religious group.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true story, fbi, law enforcement, controversy, investigation, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Ralph Bellamy) is vacationing with his family at their estate on Campobello Island on the Maine/New Brunswick border. During their stay, the 39-year-old Roosevelt comes down with a fever and sudden paralysis that is eventually diagnosed as polio. With the help of his wife, Eleanor (Greer Garson), and his close friend and political consultant, Louis Howe (Hume Cronyn), FDR battles his newfound disability.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, political, family, inspirational, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wyatt Earp (James Garner) deputizes Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) and forms a posse to hunt Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) and his gang.
Plot Keywords: western, gunfight, revenge, law and justice, based on true events, american west, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Misfit Missouri brothers Jesse and Frank James (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) turn to crime in the post-Civil War South.
Plot Keywords: western, biography, history, crime, action, adventure, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby. He's played all over the world with legends like Chuck Berry and Little Richard, but it's what Daryl does in his free time that sets him apart. Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan -- something few black men can say. In his travels, he's collected robes and other artifacts from friends who have left the Klan, building a collection piece by piece, story by story, in hopes of eventually opening a "Museum of the Klan."
Plot Keywords: documentary, race relations, american society, racism, social justice, dialogue, tolerance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, white house, photography, history, power, leadership ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After graduating from West Point, Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) are both stationed to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Once there, they find that the violent abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) has laid waste to the state, killing anyone who gets in the way of his anti-slavery crusade. While the duo must work together to battle the murderous revolutionary, they also come to blows over their competing love for Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland).
Plot Keywords: western, history, war, adventure, drama, american civil war, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One of the most famous photographs of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is the image of the Rev. Mychal Judge's body being carried from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Filmmaker Glenn Holsten pays tribute to Judge, the unorthodox chaplain of the New York City Fire Department, focusing on his life and good works.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, heroism, tragedy, humanitarian, terrorism, memorial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, vietnam war, cold war, history, politics, moral dilemma ...
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