Movies

Rio Grande (1950), a western starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, is an action-packed adventure set against the background of a dramatic landscape. Set on the western frontier during the summer of 1879, the film follows the life of Lieutenant…

The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith, chronicles the formation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the South. Beginning on the eve of the Civil War and ending in the post-Reconstruction era, the film follows the lives of two families:…

Gone With the Wind (1939) follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara, a young woman living on Tara Plantation in Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The film depicts its main character as a young, vivacious woman who frantically tries to…

Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States during the Civil War. Lincoln (2012) focuses on the last months of the president’s life, the period from January to April of 1865. As the war neared the end of its fourth year, Lincoln struggled to…

Gettysburg (1993) portrays the battle from the perspective of different officers and soldiers in the Union and Confederate armies. The story covers the battle from July 1 to 3, 1863, and the movie focuses on the action at Gettysburg and the minds of…

12 Years a Slave (2013) tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man of New York, and his abduction and sale into slavery in 1841. After his return from slavery, Northup told his story to David Wilson, a white lawyer from New York. Published…