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One more week of the HBO re-re-re-re-re-re-re-runs before it's turned off forever. Same 15 movies every months. If I have to watch Star Wars or Twister on more time, I'll give myself a Columbian necktie.
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Totally getting rid of all premium channels after next Sunday. Such a waste of money. All the new shows HBO is putting on look lame and I don't even watch TV all that much. I will of course miss Boxing, but we can go to the neighbors for that!!!
Totally getting rid of all premium channels after next Sunday. Such a waste of money. All the new shows HBO is putting on look lame and I don't even watch TV all that much. I will of course miss Boxing, but we can go to the neighbors for that!!!
What's a good historical movie?
Brittany B
I need to do a History vs. Hollywood project for modern world history. I have to watch a movie and write a paper on whether or not it was historically accurate. I'm not a big fan of history and never really liked war movies. Does anyone know any good movies that has historical information in it but is still interesting for people who hate history? Maybe a romance movie or a funny historical movie. I don't want to watch a documentary or anything like that. Something with interesting characters. Thanks.
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Amadeus
Amistad (an 1839 mutiny aboard a ship containing African slaves bound for the United States)
Amazing Grace (William Wilberforce's campaign to abolish slavery in Britain, 1807)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which focuses on the end of Jesse James' career as a criminal and the man who eventually kills him, Robert Ford.
The Alamo (2004 film) (The Battle of the Alamo, 1836)
Barry Lyndon
Beau Brummell (Beau Brummell, a 19th century arbiter of fashion in England who popularized the man's suit and necktie)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan
Bright Star (2009), set in 1818-1821, the last three years of poet John Keats' life
Casanova (Giacomo Casanova famous 18th century womanizer)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (the Charge of the Light Brigade)
Dances with Wolves
The Four Feathers (1939) based on the British army's Gordon Relief Expedition during the late 1880s in Sudan
The Four Feathers (2002)
Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War)
Glory (about one of the first official African-American units in the United States armed forces, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which fought in the American Civil War in the mid-19th century)
Lady Caroline Lamb (Lady Caroline Lamb, a novelist and British aristocrat active in the early 19th century)
The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland for the latter half of the 18th century.
Marie Antoinette (1938 film) about Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 18th century)
Marie Antoinette (2006 film) about Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 18th century)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown)
Mutiny on the Bounty (set in 1789 during the mutiny on the Bounty, a British Royal Navy ship)
Rob Roy (about Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor)
Roots (the slave trade)
The Scarlet Empress(Catherine II of Russia, the "enlightened despot" who reigned as Empress of Russia for in the latter half of the 18th century)
Tombstone (events leading up to the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
War and Peace (1956 film) (based on the work by Tolstoy, set in Russia during the Napoleonic Era)
Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo)
Wild Bill (the life and times of Wild Bill Hickok)
Wyatt Earp
Désirée, about the love story between Désirée Clary and Napoleon I
Conquest, about the love story between Marie Walewska and Napoleon I
Napoléon, miniserie about the life of Napoléon I of France
El Santo de la Espada, 1970 movie about José de San Martín and the emancipation of South America.
Vanity Fair, set in early 1800s
The Last Samurai, set in the late 1870s
The Young Victoria, portrays the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria and her relationship with Prince Albert
Anastasia (based upon Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the activities of Anna Anderson)
Battle of Britain
The Battleship Potemkin (the Battleship Potemkin uprising)
Bonnie and Clyde
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Breaker Morant (Harry "Breaker" Morant, an Australian Lieutenant who ordered the summary execution of several prisoners during the Second Boer War in 1901)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (construction of the Burma Railway by British POWs during World War II)
A Bridge Too Far (Operation Market Garden)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Dam Busters (1955) (development of the Upkeep bouncing bomb and its use in Operation Chastise)
Doctor Zhivago
Downfall (the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich)
Enemy at the Gates (based on the Battle of Stalingrad)
Evita (Evita Peron)
Flags of Our Fathers (Battle of Iwo Jima from American perspective)
Flyboys (American volunteer combat pilots in service for the Allies during World War I)
Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
Judgment at Nuremberg (the post World War II Nuremberg Trials
Letters from Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima from Japanese perspective)
The Longest Day (D-Day during World War II)
Memphis Belle (a U.S. bombing mission over Germany during World War II)
Michael Collins (Irish Michael Collins)
A Night to Remember (the Titanic disaster)
Patton (the exploits of General George S. Patton during World War II)
Pearl Harbor
Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and its aftermath)
Schindler's List (German industrialist Oskar Schindler's assistance to keep Jewish people from being interred in concentration camps during World War II)
Sink the Bismarck! (the World War II German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (The Irish revoloution).
Titanic (the Titanic disaster)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941)
Valkyrie (July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler)
Young Winston (the biography Winston Churchill before he became Britain's World
Amadeus
Amistad (an 1839 mutiny aboard a ship containing African slaves bound for the United States)
Amazing Grace (William Wilberforce's campaign to abolish slavery in Britain, 1807)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which focuses on the end of Jesse James' career as a criminal and the man who eventually kills him, Robert Ford.
The Alamo (2004 film) (The Battle of the Alamo, 1836)
Barry Lyndon
Beau Brummell (Beau Brummell, a 19th century arbiter of fashion in England who popularized the man's suit and necktie)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan
Bright Star (2009), set in 1818-1821, the last three years of poet John Keats' life
Casanova (Giacomo Casanova famous 18th century womanizer)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (the Charge of the Light Brigade)
Dances with Wolves
The Four Feathers (1939) based on the British army's Gordon Relief Expedition during the late 1880s in Sudan
The Four Feathers (2002)
Gone with the Wind (the American Civil War)
Glory (about one of the first official African-American units in the United States armed forces, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which fought in the American Civil War in the mid-19th century)
Lady Caroline Lamb (Lady Caroline Lamb, a novelist and British aristocrat active in the early 19th century)
The Madness of King George (George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland for the latter half of the 18th century.
Marie Antoinette (1938 film) about Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 18th century)
Marie Antoinette (2006 film) about Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 18th century)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mrs. Brown (Queen Victoria and John Brown)
Mutiny on the Bounty (set in 1789 during the mutiny on the Bounty, a British Royal Navy ship)
Rob Roy (about Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor)
Roots (the slave trade)
The Scarlet Empress(Catherine II of Russia, the "enlightened despot" who reigned as Empress of Russia for in the latter half of the 18th century)
Tombstone (events leading up to the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
War and Peace (1956 film) (based on the work by Tolstoy, set in Russia during the Napoleonic Era)
Waterloo (the Battle of Waterloo)
Wild Bill (the life and times of Wild Bill Hickok)
Wyatt Earp
Désirée, about the love story between Désirée Clary and Napoleon I
Conquest, about the love story between Marie Walewska and Napoleon I
Napoléon, miniserie about the life of Napoléon I of France
El Santo de la Espada, 1970 movie about José de San Martín and the emancipation of South America.
Vanity Fair, set in early 1800s
The Last Samurai, set in the late 1870s
The Young Victoria, portrays the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria and her relationship with Prince Albert
Anastasia (based upon Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the activities of Anna Anderson)
Battle of Britain
The Battleship Potemkin (the Battleship Potemkin uprising)
Bonnie and Clyde
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Breaker Morant (Harry "Breaker" Morant, an Australian Lieutenant who ordered the summary execution of several prisoners during the Second Boer War in 1901)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (construction of the Burma Railway by British POWs during World War II)
A Bridge Too Far (Operation Market Garden)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Dam Busters (1955) (development of the Upkeep bouncing bomb and its use in Operation Chastise)
Doctor Zhivago
Downfall (the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich)
Enemy at the Gates (based on the Battle of Stalingrad)
Evita (Evita Peron)
Flags of Our Fathers (Battle of Iwo Jima from American perspective)
Flyboys (American volunteer combat pilots in service for the Allies during World War I)
Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)
Judgment at Nuremberg (the post World War II Nuremberg Trials
Letters from Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima from Japanese perspective)
The Longest Day (D-Day during World War II)
Memphis Belle (a U.S. bombing mission over Germany during World War II)
Michael Collins (Irish Michael Collins)
A Night to Remember (the Titanic disaster)
Patton (the exploits of General George S. Patton during World War II)
Pearl Harbor
Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and its aftermath)
Schindler's List (German industrialist Oskar Schindler's assistance to keep Jewish people from being interred in concentration camps during World War II)
Sink the Bismarck! (the World War II German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (The Irish revoloution).
Titanic (the Titanic disaster)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941)
Valkyrie (July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler)
Young Winston (the biography Winston Churchill before he became Britain's World
My 7 year old son is having a theme day at school. The theme is 70's and 80's.?
Sandra S
I am totally stumped as to what to do. The day is this friday. Thank you all who answer.
Answer
I found this info on a website:
Disco 70's Party Theme Knits and denims were the fabrics of choice. Leisure suits for men became commonplace, and women were fashionable in everything from ankle-length grandmother dresses to hot pants and micro-miniskirts. The movie Annie Hall inspired a fashion trend with women sporting traditional men's clothing such as derby hats, tweed jackets, and neckties worn with baggy pants or skirts. The women's movement was strong and women surpassed men in college enrollment in 1979. The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. David Bowie, Queen, Abba, KIZZ, The Bee Gees, Donna Summer were the musical artist that many boogied to. Nixon resigns in 1974 facing impeachment from the information revealed on the Watergate tapes. Star Wars was the highest grossing film ever. Saturday Fever was the movie that really represents the 1970. The story of a boy who just wants to dance. The men had shoulder length hair and everyone wore tight fitting clothes. In New York, Studio 54 was the most popular place for a disco party theme. Disco is not just a club, but it is also a dance style and a fashion. Around the country roller disco was all the rage.
An 80's Party Theme would feature break-dancing and punk rock. Bands like Duran Duran, Oingo Boingo, Social Distortion and Minor Threat influenced people everywhere. Each crowd had their own way of dressing. Break dancers primarily wore jump suits and high top sneakers and had a fade haircut. The “punkers” wore tight jeans and dress shirts with ties. They had multi-colored Mohawks and wore make-up. Madonna also influenced the way people in the 80’s dressed. Big hair heavy make-up and little to no clothing at all was the style Madonna was famous for. Spandex was another fad, put on an oversized to-shirt, jean jacket, and spandex pants with leg warmers and that would be an average outfit of the 80’s.
Not all of it is for a seven year old, but there are a lot of ideas there to have fun with. Enjoy!!! Hey maybe you can join the theme day and join in on the fun with your son.
I found this info on a website:
Disco 70's Party Theme Knits and denims were the fabrics of choice. Leisure suits for men became commonplace, and women were fashionable in everything from ankle-length grandmother dresses to hot pants and micro-miniskirts. The movie Annie Hall inspired a fashion trend with women sporting traditional men's clothing such as derby hats, tweed jackets, and neckties worn with baggy pants or skirts. The women's movement was strong and women surpassed men in college enrollment in 1979. The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. David Bowie, Queen, Abba, KIZZ, The Bee Gees, Donna Summer were the musical artist that many boogied to. Nixon resigns in 1974 facing impeachment from the information revealed on the Watergate tapes. Star Wars was the highest grossing film ever. Saturday Fever was the movie that really represents the 1970. The story of a boy who just wants to dance. The men had shoulder length hair and everyone wore tight fitting clothes. In New York, Studio 54 was the most popular place for a disco party theme. Disco is not just a club, but it is also a dance style and a fashion. Around the country roller disco was all the rage.
An 80's Party Theme would feature break-dancing and punk rock. Bands like Duran Duran, Oingo Boingo, Social Distortion and Minor Threat influenced people everywhere. Each crowd had their own way of dressing. Break dancers primarily wore jump suits and high top sneakers and had a fade haircut. The “punkers” wore tight jeans and dress shirts with ties. They had multi-colored Mohawks and wore make-up. Madonna also influenced the way people in the 80’s dressed. Big hair heavy make-up and little to no clothing at all was the style Madonna was famous for. Spandex was another fad, put on an oversized to-shirt, jean jacket, and spandex pants with leg warmers and that would be an average outfit of the 80’s.
Not all of it is for a seven year old, but there are a lot of ideas there to have fun with. Enjoy!!! Hey maybe you can join the theme day and join in on the fun with your son.
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