Recent U.S. History

Movie List

 

 

1940s and 1950s

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

High Noon (1952)

Animal Farm (1954)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Rio Grande (1950)

Defiant Ones (1958)

1984 (1955)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Shane

West Side Story

Lords of the Flatbush

The Outsiders

I Want to Live (1958)

One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (1971)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Wild Ones (1953)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Hud

Rosie the Riveter

1960s

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Woodstock (1970)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Easy Rider (1969)

A Man For All Seasons (1966)

Seven Days in May (1964)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

The Graduate (1967)

I Love You Alice B. Toklas

Born on the Fourth of July

Platoon

Green Berets

Helter Skelter

Goodmorning Vietnam

Apocalypse Now

JFK

Malcom X

Wild in the Streets

American Graffiti

The Rose

 

 

1970s

All the President’s Men

Saturday Night Fever

Superfly

Silkwood

Dazed and Confused

The Deerhunter

Taxi Driver

Where the Buffalo Roam

China Syndrome (1979)

The Hanoi Hilton (1987)

Star Wars (1977)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979)

Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Ten (1979)

There Was a Crooked Man (1971)

The Shootist

High Plains Drifter

 

 

1980s and 1990s

Forrest Gump

Stand and Deliver

Lean On Me

Philadelphia

Dances With Wolves

Wall Street

Natural Born Killers

Rambo

Breakfast Club

Short Cuts

Hudsucker Proxy

Bob Roberts

Jungle Fever

Do the Right Thing

Boyz in the Hood

 

 

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