Post by kijii on Mar 7, 2019 17:58:21 GMT
There are many movies that cover (or relate) an event (or biography) that I would not have known about through my standard education. Although reviews often say "this is not historically accurate." Movies often tell me the story of something I would not have known about without the movie. And, they often cause me to want to learn more about the event or person.
Here are a few examples of movie like this:
55 Days at Peking (1963) generally covers the Boxer Rebellion, usually not covered anywhere else by anyone else.
The Imitation Game (2014) relates the life an an extremely important person who I had barely heard of: Alan Turing.
Breaker Morant (1980) tells a real story set in the Boer War. The Boer War is something most Americans have heard of but never really understood. At least this opens us up to question: What was this event and why it was fought.
Milk (2008) is the biography of Harvey Milk, the man how opened the closet for thousands of Americans (and non-Americans) whose story might have never have been "explained" as well as it was in this movie. That is, the movie can educate us better than books or paragraphs in a history book.
I love the way the Brits have taken off the "warts" of British colonialism with many of its epics.
What is the Raj?
What were some it contributions and what were some of it problems?
If you want to sort of experience it through a movie rather than a non-emotional textbook, you might want to see A Passage to India (1984) or Gandhi (1982).
For some American "warts" one might want to see Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) or Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Textbooks and novels can educate us with facts, but movies can take us in to feel things a little more graphically.
And what about those wonderful biopics about famous (or infamous) people?
I have learned more about World War II through movies than I could have ever learned about it through history books.
Many of these war movies were made during the war, and were made to teach us by entertaining us.
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Question: What are some of the movies that have taught you things more deeply (positive or negative) than you could have ever learned from a book, textbook, or an oral history?
Here are a few examples of movie like this:
55 Days at Peking (1963) generally covers the Boxer Rebellion, usually not covered anywhere else by anyone else.
The Imitation Game (2014) relates the life an an extremely important person who I had barely heard of: Alan Turing.
Breaker Morant (1980) tells a real story set in the Boer War. The Boer War is something most Americans have heard of but never really understood. At least this opens us up to question: What was this event and why it was fought.
Milk (2008) is the biography of Harvey Milk, the man how opened the closet for thousands of Americans (and non-Americans) whose story might have never have been "explained" as well as it was in this movie. That is, the movie can educate us better than books or paragraphs in a history book.
I love the way the Brits have taken off the "warts" of British colonialism with many of its epics.
What is the Raj?
What were some it contributions and what were some of it problems?
If you want to sort of experience it through a movie rather than a non-emotional textbook, you might want to see A Passage to India (1984) or Gandhi (1982).
For some American "warts" one might want to see Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) or Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Textbooks and novels can educate us with facts, but movies can take us in to feel things a little more graphically.
And what about those wonderful biopics about famous (or infamous) people?
I have learned more about World War II through movies than I could have ever learned about it through history books.
Many of these war movies were made during the war, and were made to teach us by entertaining us.
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Question: What are some of the movies that have taught you things more deeply (positive or negative) than you could have ever learned from a book, textbook, or an oral history?