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The following list of films have been suggested
by instructors in the Humanities Program

Prehistory

Quest for Fire

 

Ancient, Greek, and Roman Civilization
Greek Drama: From Ritual to Theater 57 min
The Greek Awakening: Art from the 5th Century BC 24 min

The Egyptian

The Bible... In the Beginning

Alexander the Great

The Robe

Spartacus

Antony and Cleopatra

Icon-Byzantine icons

Plato's Republic

The Greeks:  The Classical Age  (Films for the Humanites and Sciences)

The Greeks:  The Greek Beginning (Films for the Humanites and Sciences)

Oedipus the King (Films for the Humanites and Sciences)

Gladiator

Troy

The Ten Commandments

Oedipus the King

Quo Vadis

Ben Hur

Fall of the Roman Empire

Masada

 

Judaism

The Bible... In the Beginning

The Ten Commandments

Masada

Jerusalem Stories

 

Christianity

Saints and Sinners: The History of the Popes (Acorn Media) series:

Upon this Rock

Between Two Empires

Set over Nations

Protest and Division

The Pope and the People

The Oracles of God

From Jesus to Christ (Frontline)

Jerusalem Stories

The Robe

 

Islam

Jerusalem Stories

Inside Mecca (about the pilgrimage)

 

Medieval Europe

Excalibur

Stealing Heaven

Alexander Nevsky

Ivan the Terrible

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Return of Martin Guerre

The Plague

The Vikings

Name of the Rose

The Scarlett Empress

Lion in Winter

Becket

Richard III(1995)

 

Crusades

El Cid

The Crusades

 

Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar

Henry V

Taming of the Shrew

Richard III

Hamlet

King Lear

Much Ado About Nothing

MacBeth

Othello

Shakespeare in Love

 

Renaissance/Reformation

Man for all Seasons

Rembrandt

Queen Margot

The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Renaissance (6-episode PBS series)

Gaileo’s Battle for the Heavens (NOVA)

Machiavelli, The Prince

Anne of the Thousand Days

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Andrei Rublev

 

British--Reformation/Tudor/Stuart

The Return of Martin Guerre

Madness of King George

Man for All Seasons_

Richard III  (the mid-90s with Ian MacKellan)

 

Expansion

Royal Hunt of the Sun

Seven Cities of Gold

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Mission

The Black Robe

The Bounty

 

17th and 18th Century Power and Politics

Cromwell

Mary of Scotland

Barry Lyndon

Valmont

1776

Queen Christina (Sweden)

Day of Wrath

Lady Jane

Dangerous Liaisons

Rob Roy

Madness of King George

 

17th Century: The Arts

Verdi’s Requiem

Life of Verdi (4 tapes)

Verdi’s La Traviata

 

18th Century: The Arts

Mozart’s Don Giovanni

 

Enlightenment

Amadeus

Tom Jones

Voltaire

 

French Revolution and Napoleon

Napoleon

Damn the Defiant

Billy Budd

La Marsellaise

War and Peace

Waterloo

La Nuit de Varennes

Marie Antoinette

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Tale of Two Cities

French Revolution: The Terror (History Channel)

The Duelists

Les Miserables

Danton

 

Imperialism

Juarez

Burn

Passage to India

Mountains of the Moon

Mister Johnson

Breaker Morant

Zulu Dawn

Zulu

Shaka Zulu

Out of Africa

Indochine

White Mischief

Plenty

Exodus

Gandhi

Last Days of October

The Jewel in the Crown

The Battle of Algiers

Shake Hands with the Devil

Beau Geste

Fitzcarraldo

Crusoe

Farewell to the King

The Man Who Would be King

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

 

Industrialization, Socialism, & Marxism

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

 

19th Century: Art, Science, Thought, Life

Children of Paradise

The Story of Adele H.

Madame Bovary

Room with a View

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Freud

I Accuse

Life of Emile Zola

Young Winston

Madame Curie

Vincent & Theo

Lust for Life

Moulin Rouge

A Doll's House

Vincent:  Life & Death...Van Gogh

Ragtime

Salome's Last Dance

A Woman Rebels

Hester Street

Camille Claudel

Immortal Beloved

Carmen

Mahler

Wagner

Scenes from The Ring at the Met

Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg (Acts 1-3)

Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde (Acts 1-3)

Life of Wagner (4 tapes)

A. Einstein (PBS)

 

World War I and the Russian Revolution

1900

The Shooting Party

The Day that Shook the World

Le Grande Illusion

Zeppelin

The Blue Max

All Quiet on the Western Front

King and Country

Lawrence of Arabia

The African Queen

Paths of Glory

Gallipoli

Life and Death of Col. Blimp

The Razor's Edge

The Battleship Potemkin

Ten Days that Shook the World

And Quiet Flows the Don

Nicholas and Alexandra

Dr. Zhivago

Animal Farm

Anastasia

Reds

The Great War (8 parts, PBS)

 

World War II, Fascism, and the Holocaust

The Pawnbroker

The Night Porter

A Midnight Clear

Come See the Paradise

The Last Metro

The Winds of War

Mein Kampf

War and Remembrance

The Tin Drum

The Great Dictator

Cabaret

Ship of Fools

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Seventh Cross

Cross of Iron

Hope and Glory

The Damned

Das Boat

Two Women

The Assault

Open City

Massacre in Rome

Mrs. Miniver

The Search

Shoah

Schindler's List

Judgment at Nuremburg

Enemies a Love Story

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Garden of the Finzi Continis

Voyage of the Damned

Au Revoir, Mon Enfants

Night and Fog

Diary of Anne Frank

Europa, Europa

Sophie's Choice

Seven Beauties

Playing for Time

Holocaust (miniseries)

The Sorrow and the Pity

Escape from Sobibor

The Eye of the Needle

Patton

Catch 22

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Mediterraneo

Julia

Mephisto

The Restless Conscience

Hotel Terminus

The Revolt of Job

Klein

Paisan

Stalag 17

Pearl Harbor (History Channel – DVD)

WWII: The War in Europe (History Channel –DVD)

WWII: The War in the Pacific (History Channel – DVD)

Das Boot

Frank Capra's entire WWII "Why We Fight" series.

Frank Capra's "The Battle of New Britain"

Battlefield: The Battle of Leyte Gulf and The Battle of the Rhine (PBS)

Cartroon Crazys[sic] Goes[sic] to War (World War II-era cartoons)

Nisei Soldiers (History Channel)

Nuremberg Trials

The Nazis,Witness to Genocide

Nazi Germany: A People's Community (History Channel, German Society

from 1933-1945)

Triumph of the Will

 

Soviet Union

Rasputin (History Channel)

Czar to Stalin

The New Russian Revolution

Beria (Soviet Secret Police Leader, History Channel)

 

Cold War and Vietnam

Coming Home

Dear America

Platoon

Born on the 4th of July

The Deer Hunter

Dr. Strangelove

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Eleni

Full Metal Jacket

Apocalypse Now

The Missiles of October

The Hunt for Red October

No Way Out

The Package

M.A.S.H.

In Country

Friendly Fire

Hanoi Hilton

Green Berets

Night Crossing

Vietnam:  Year of the Pig

Blue Sky

Heaven and Earth

Bat 21

Casualties of War

84 Charlie Mopic

The Killing Fields

Salvador

 

20th Century: Art, Thought, Science, Politics, and Life

Missing

Wall Street

Twelve Angry Men

Avalon

Sleeper

Logan's Run

Blade Runner

Zardoz

Fahrenheit 451

A Clockwork Orange

2001:  A Space Odyssey

2010

1984

The Double Helix

Under Fire

Modern Times

Weekend

Blue Angel

Angry Silence

Room at the Top

The Trial

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Z

If...

Broadcast News

Howard's End

Easy Rider

Woodstock

Antonia's Line

Nashville

All the President's Men

Being There

The Big Chill

Bob Roberts

A Brief History of Time

The Color Purple

Mississippi Burning

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Day After

Threads

Kerouac

A World Apart

The Weavers:  Wasn't that a Time

Testament

Talk Radio

Lord of the Flies

Streamers

Story of Women

Secret Honor

Running on Empty

Roger and Me

The Right Stuff

Network

The Conversation

The Cotton Club

Cry Freedom

A Nous la Liberte

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Do the Right Thing

Mississippi Masala

Guilty by Suspicion

Boys from Brazil

High Hopes

Lady Sings the Blues

Crossfire

The Long Walk Home

Metropolis

Boyz 'n the Hood

Iran Contra

 

Religion/Spiritualism

Heaven

Agnes of God

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

The Last Temptation of Christ

Jesus Christ Superstar

Godspell

The Mission

Song of Bernadette

Therese

Inherit the Wind

The Seventh Sign

The Exorcist

Elmer Gantry

Gospel of St. Matthew

Greatest Story Ever Told

The Bible

The Priest

The Chosen

Jesus of Montreal

The Milky Way

Viridiana

The Passion of Christ