Final Exam question: M & T

Make up your own exam, essay or multiple choice and answer the test that you have made up. You will need to have at least three essay questions or 50 multiple-choice. You will have to answer the essays in at least a 2 page paper. Be prepared to give your test orally to the other students in the class. The material covered will be from Truman to the present. Not on the same topics.

History 1:

Do any two movies and two books that are tied to the movie. Examine carefully the accuracy of the movie and its precise or unprecise following of the book. Compare and contrast the book and movie. This will require a 3 pg paper for each two movies/books.

Films that address the early part of the 20th Century Period up to the 1930s:

Birth of a Nation (1915) B/W; See the following films: The Clansman (1970) & The Leopard's Spots, A Romance of the White Man's Burden (2013).

Triangle Fire PBS Video; https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/ See also the article in Marcus and Burner.

Grapes of Wrath (1940) B/W; Grapes of Wrath (1939)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) Color; All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Sergeant York (1941) B/W; Sgt. York: His Life, Legend & Legacy: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sgt. Alvin C. York

Dillinger (1973) Color; Dillinger (2010)

Of Mice and Men (1992) Color; Of Mice and Men (1993) ed.

Great Gatsby 1974 Color; Great Gatsby (2004)

Films that deal with WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War Era, and Iraq/Afghanistan

WWII

The Enemy Below (1957) Color; The Enemy Below (HMS Hecate Book 2) 2015

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) B/W; Run Silent, Run Deep (Permabooks) 1956

The Desert Fox (1951) B/W; Rommel: Desert Fox 1987

Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Color; Fat Man and Little Boy 2014

The Great Escape (1963) Color; The Great Escape 2004

The Longest Day (1962) B/W; The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day 1994

The Thin Red Line (1998) Color; The Thin Red Line: A Novel 1998

Unbroken (2014) Color; ; Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (2011or

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2014)

Bridge of Spies (2015) color; Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers (2015)

Korea

Men in War (1957) Color; This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (2001)

Pork Chop Hill (1957) Color; the Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2008)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) B/W (use this version not the most recent one); Manchurian Candidate 2000

Vietnam

Bat 21(1988) Color ; BAT-21: Based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. Hambleton, USA (1980)

Hamburger Hill (1987) Color; Hamburger Hill (1999)

The Deer Hunter (1978) Color; The Deer Hunter 1979

Apocalypse Now (1979) Color; the Apocalypse Now Book (2001) or

Apocalypse Now Redux : A Screenplay (2001)

Cold War

The Hunt for Red October (1990) Color; The Hunt for Red October 1984

The Strategic Air Command (1955) Color; Strategic Air Command: People, Aircraft, and Missiles 1979

The Heroes of Desert Storm (1992) Color; Falcon's Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir (1998)

1950-1980

High Noon (1952) Color; High Noon (Bfi Film Classics)2008

12 Angry Men (1957) B/W; Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men: A Play in Three Acts (1983)

On the Waterfront (1954); On the Waterfront 2010

The Untouchables1987 or the earlier film 1959; The Untouchables 1993

The Long Walk Home (1990) Color; The Long Walk Home 2013

Malcolm X (1992) Color; The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley 1987

All the Presidents Men (1976) Color; All The President's Men 2014

Woodstock (1970) Color; Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World 2010

Quiz Show (1994) Color; The Quiz Show (TV Genres) 2008

The Killing Fields (1984) Color; The Killing Fields (1984)

Raging Bull (1980); Raging Bull, My Story (1997)

1980-2010

The Iraq War (2008) Color; The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath (2005)

The Hurt Locker (2010) Color; The Hurt Locker: The Shooting Script (2009)

The Taliban (2007) Color; The Taliban (2010) 2nd ed.

Rethink Afghanistan (2009) Color; Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (2012)

Return to Kandahar (2010) Color; Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan (2009)

Fargo 1996; Fargo (1996)

The Color Purple (1985) Color; The Color Purple (2003)

2010-2014

Zero Dark Thirty (2013) Color; Zero Dark Thirty 2002

Argo (2013) Color; Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 2013

Monument Men (2014) Color; The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 2010

The Help (2011) Color; The Help 2009

Unbroken (2014) Color; Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (2011)