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The following list of films have been
suggested
by instructors in the Humanities Program
Quest for Fire
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)
The Ten Commandments
Oedipus the King
Quo Vadis
Ben Hur
Fall of the Roman Empire
Masada
The Bible... In the Beginning
The Ten Commandments
Masada
Jerusalem Stories
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
Jerusalem Stories
Inside Mecca (about the pilgrimage)
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)
El Cid
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
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)
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Andrei Rublev
Man for All Seasons_
Richard III (the mid-90s with Ian MacKellan)
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
Amadeus
Tom Jones
Voltaire
Napoleon
Damn the Defiant
Billy Budd
La Marsellaise
War and Peace
La Nuit de Varennes
Marie Antoinette
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Tale of Two Cities
French Revolution: The Terror (History Channel)
The Duelists
Les Miserables
Danton
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
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)
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)
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
Rasputin (History Channel)
The New Russian Revolution
Beria (Soviet Secret Police Leader, History Channel)
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
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