What are some great movies depicting the time after WW2 to just after the civil rights movement?
Question by Douglas: What are some great movies depicting the time after WW2 to just after the civil rights movement?
Im doing a film review for a history class and I cant think of any movies to save my life. It can be on communism, the civil rights, etc. It just has to be here on American soil.
Best answer:
Answer by Ted K
Here’s some choices–some based on true events and real people, others from novels:
“Good Night and Good Luck.”–Edward R. Murrow and the integrity of broadcast journalism during the McCarthy era
“The Best Years of Our Lives.”–Explores 3 returning WWII veterans and their difficult adjustment back to civilian life
“On the Waterfront.”–Love amidst corruption and murder amidst union politics–the little guy battles the established corrupt order for justice
“Murder in Mississippi.”–Bravery, recism, and the fight against Jim Crow laws in the south during the early 60s
“All the President’s Men.”–The unraveling of the Watergate conspiracy in the early 70s
“Dr. Strangelove.”–Black comedy about cold war paranoia, nuclear weapons, and the purity of our…natural…fluids…
“The Manchurian Candidate.”–Returning veteran who had been captured by the Reds in Korea, has been brainwashed by them and placed in a position to gain political power in the U.S.
“Fail Safe.”–Another one about the cold war turning hot with a nuclear exchange–more serious treatment than Strangelove.
“The Wild One.”–Rebellious outlaw motorcycle gangs cause mayhem in a small town–loosely based on purported (but way exaggerated) actual events in Hollister, CA in 1947
“The Lost Weekend.”–A man’s struggle with alcoholism.
“The Man with the Golden Arm.”–Another man’s struggle with heroin addiction.
“Bird.”–Biography of the late, great Charlie “Bird” Parker.
“Bad Day at Black Rock.”–Modern-day “western” on a town’s dark racist secret
“Seven Days in May.”–Cold war thriller about a military plot to take over the government
“Giant”–Epic drama about the history of a Texas ranching dynasty and its clash with the emerging oil industry
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