EXTRA CREDIT OPTIONS: 10 points each to be administered after each quarter to your tests/quizzes scores.
In order to garner extra credit points, you will need to watch up to 3 films and give an analysis of each. Choose from the list below. You are to use the film analysis worksheet given in class to analyze these films. After you completed your worksheet, write a reaction paper no less than 1 page addressing your thoughts on the film; how the film helped or hindered your understanding of the period; what was missing from the film and why do you think the film makers neglected to show the viewer.
A Man For All Seasons ( Henry VIII & Thomas More)
Amadeus (Enlightenment)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo & Pope Julius II)
All Quiet on the Western Front ( WWI German Experience)
Anne of the Thousand Days (Anne Boleyn)
Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War?? A Tennyson Poem)
Das Boot (WWII German U-boat)
The Diary of Anne Frank (WWII Jewish & German Experience)
Dr. Stangelove (the Arms race, U.S. vs. USSR during the Cold War)
Dr. Zhivago (WWI; the Russian Bolshevik Revolution)
El Cid (the Reconquista)
Elizabeth (QE I of England)
Europa, Europa ( WWII Germany)
Fire Over England ( Eng. vs. Spain or QEI vs. Philip II)
Gallipoli (WWI battle)
Gandhi (Imperialism in India)
Hanry V (100 Years' War)
Immortal Beloved (Beethoven and the beginning of the Romantic period)
Joan of Arc (100 Years' War)
Lady Jane (QEII)
Last of the Mohicans (French Indian/Seven Years' War)
Lawrence of Arabia (story of TE Lawrence)
The Madness of King George (KGIII of England)
Mary Queen of Scots
The Messenger (100 Years' War)
Michael Collins
Northwest Passage (Colonial America)
Private Life of Henry VIII
Reds (American communism; the Russian Revolution)
Rob Roy
Saving Private Ryan (WWII)
Schindler's List (WWII)
Shakespeare in Love
War and Remembrance (WWII)