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This guide will point you to DVDs you can use for your final exam film essay in History 206. UW-Green Bay DVDs are located on the 3rd floor of Cofrin Library. You can get DVDs from other UW schools for free in only 2-4 business days. Click on the title, then follow the instructions below to place a request.
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Suggested films by decades
The Grapes of WrathCall Number: Place a requestPublication Date: 1940The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
Inherit the WindCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1960A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom. Based upon the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
The Godfather: Part IICall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1974Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. Based on the novel "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo.
On the WaterfrontCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1954An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss. Based on a story by Budd Schulberg.
Cesar ChavezCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2013The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the world.
Guess who's coming to dinnerCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1967Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bombCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1963A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.Based on the book "Red alert" by Peter George.
Easy riderCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1969Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
Apocalypse now.Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1979A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
The deer hunterCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1978Five friends work in the stifling heat and infernal din of a steel mill. They blow off steam after work at a neighborhood tavern and go deer hunting every fall. One day late in 1968, three of them leave for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Before they go the wedding of one serves as the friend's farewell party.
PlatoonCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1986Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
SelmaCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2014Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
- Cesar ChavezCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2013The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the world.
Taxi driverCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1976A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Alice doesn't live here anymoreCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1974Eight year old Alice Graham dreams of becoming a singer. Twenty seven years later she spends most of her life mediating between her sullen husband and their son Tom. When her husband is killed she decides to sell up and pursue a singing career. She finds herself forced to reassess her life, her relationship with Tom, and most of all her dependence on men.
JawsCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1975A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
Blue CollarCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1978hree auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash. Their unexpected swipe suddenly envelopes the three autoworkers in a desperate fight against corruption and organized crime.
NetworkCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1976A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.Norma Rae
Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1979Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.
RockyCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1976Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown and comes out a winner.
The WarriorsCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1979The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1! Based on the novel by Sol Yurick.
Wall StreetCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1987Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
Do the right thingCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1989On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
MoonlightCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2016A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Nine to FiveCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1980Three secretaries live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their sexist boss.
North CountryCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2005A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Roger and MeCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1989A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.
Pulp fictionCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1994The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Thelma and LouiseCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1991Two friends, one an unhappy housewife the other a wise-cracking waitress, decide to take a vacation from their lives, but things soon get out of control after an incident at a roadside café.
Smoke signalsCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1998Story of the journey of two Coeur d'Alene Indian boys from Idaho to Arizona. When Victor's estranged father dies in Arizona the two young men embark on a journey to recover his ashes. Based on stories by Sherman Alexie from the book: The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven.
Hurt lockerCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2008US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. While the three members face their own internal issues, they have to be aware of any person at the bomb sites, some of whom may be bombers themselves.
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