What historical event/American experience is being depicted? What did the film teach you about this event/experience that you hadn’t known before?
What aspect of the film did you most engage with? What will you remember?
The significance of the story is determined by the power of its comment on the human condition. What comment is being made in this movie about what it is to be human?
Did anything that happened in this movie remind you of something that has occurred in your own life or that you have seen occur to others?
Your three answers should be around 1,000 words total.
Movie List…
The Crucible (1996, Nicholas Hytner)
Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
Birth of a Nation (2016, Nate Parker)
Andersonville (1996, John Frankenheimer)
Burying My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007, Yves Simoneau)
The Conspirator (2010, Robert Redford)
Free State of Jones (2016, Gary Ross)
Gettysburg (1993, Ronald F. Maxwell)
Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
Lincoln (2013, Steven Spielberg).
12 Years a Slave (2013, Steve McQueen)
Amistad (1997, Steven Spielberg)
Beloved (1998, Johnathan Demme)
Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner).
The Alamo (2004, John Lee Hancock)
Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004, Katja von Garnier)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Flags of our Fathers (2006, Clint Eastwood)