Any history buffs??? HELP NEEDED

[greenbriar]

I need a good docu-drama that relates to the "Stormy 60's and one that relates to the stalemate 70's


any suggestions besides


JFK
Zapruder Film


???

[applegrove]

1. All the President's Men n/t

[bryant69]

2. Berkely in the Sixties is very good

It deals with a specific place and time, however. But it does cover both the positive and negative sides of that Decade. And it's pretty entertaining as well.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[HockeyMom]

3. Apocalypse Now

chilling. Cultural? Woodstock.

[deutsey]

4. The Weather Underground

I've only seen parts of this on Democracy Now, but it received good reviews, if I remember correctly:

http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/main.html

[Lannes]

5. The Killing Fields

[Dhalgren]

6. "Dog Day Afternoon" for that 70's feeling...

[Lannes]

11. Speaking of Dog Day Afternoon..

"Attica! Attica! Attica!"

There was a TV movie about it with Charles Durning.Dont remember how good it was.It was a long time ago..Probably can find it at amazon.

[wicket]

16. ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!

:D

[Dhalgren]

18. "Attica State, Attica State, we're all mates in Attica State!"

Ah, Lennon...

[Journeyman]

7. Medium Cool (1969) . . .

Where is the line between fantasy and reality? Check out Medium Cool and you'll have trouble finding it. Pioneering cinematographer Haskell Wexler got the bright idea that the 1968 Democratic National Convention would be a hotbed of riots (with Vietnam in its worst years, MLK recently assassinated, and a growing movement fed up with the government) and he was right. Wexler decided to make a (fictional) movie set during all of this -- but rather than wait until it was over and done with, he took a group of actors to ground zero, tossed them in among the cops and the protesters, and had them "act."

The result is one of the most vibrant and eye-opening films ever made, a bit of fantasy that seems devastatingly real -- because, in large part, it is.

Robert Forster smolders as Chicago TV cameraman John Cassellis, jaded but calmly professional as he coldly documents car wrecks and generous cab drivers, waiting for the Convention to arrive. Meanwhile, he has a few romps in the hay, with a sultry nurse named Ruth (Marianna Hill) and a single mother from Appalachia named Eileen (Verna Bloom), caring for her son in one of the worst slums of Chicago. As Cassellis becomes entwined with Eileen, becoming a surrogate father for the boy, he loses his job and apparently his mind as well -- all while the politically-charged world he lives in begins to melt.

Wexler's creation is masterful -- a hyperrealistic look at the world that should make Robert Altman (who, for some reason, gets massive praise for the dull Nashville) hang his head in shame. While the circumstances around the making of the film itself is enough to elevate the movie to classic status, the end result is equally impressive. Notably, Wexler introduces some of the best music cues ever -- with a roller derby's audio track slipping over into a sex scene, as well as "Happy Days Are Here Again" playing over the riots (beat that, Tarantino!). The story -- about a jaded America during the 1960s -- has become more relevant than ever.

Originally rated X, Medium Cool has just been reissued on DVD, complete with a telling commentary from Wexler, consulting editor Paul Golding, and actress Hill. Wexler's context is outstanding -- but Hill, who is only in about 5 minutes of the movie, has little to do but cringe and squeal when her (fully) nude scene pops up. Oddly, that makes it even more compelling.

A must-own for any cineaste.

(www.filmcritic.com)

[rndmprsn]

9. i think altmans "nashville" could fit just as good...

[Nightjock]

15. Where can I get that bumpersticker?

[WilliamPitt]

8. Forrest Gump

:)

[Xipe Totec]

10. The Tlatelolco Massacre, 1968

At 6 p.m. on October 2, from 3,000 to 5,000 students were gathered in Tlatelolco’s Plaza de las Tres Culturas, listening to student leaders speak from a balcony of one of the apartment buildings surrounding the plaza. ... As a U.S. Defense Intelligency Agency (DIA) report dated October 18 states, “An accurate account of what happened for the next few minutes after troops started to move in probably will never be known”. Shots were heard, and witnesses said a flare or flares appeared in the sky, some thought from one or more helicopters circling overhead. There were accounts, says the DIA, that Army personnel first fired into the air, and that snipers in and on the apartment buildings fired on the troops and police and even into the crowd. People trying to flee were hampered by encircling soldiers and military vehicles. Some people were trampled. One of the first persons wounded by gunfire was Brigadier General Jose Hernandez Toledo, who apparently entered the plaza at the head of the troops with a bullhorn. Armed men in civilian clothes and wearing white gloves on their left hands also reportedly entered the Chihuahua Apartment Building, overlooking the plaza, to apprehend student leaders.

The firefight lasted over an hour, and after a lull it resumed. By midnight the military was in control, searching the buildings from which snipers had fired and finding large quantities of small weapons and ammunition in the Chihuahua Apartment Building. The official death toll was 32, but it has been claimed that as many as 300 people died in the shooting, with the U.S. State Department estimating 150 to 200 dead, including 40 military personnel. More than a thousand persons were arrested.

http://www.hobrad.com/massacre.htm

[EC]

12. A movie called 1969

and there is a few with Martin Sheen :The War at Home
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As a director Estevez is probably best remembered for Men at Work, a film most impressive for the stunted development and general hopelessness of the two leads. In years gone by a good parent might have reacted by packing the boys off to war to make men of them; in this gentler age Martin Sheen instead settled for forwarding his elder lad a copy of James Duff's Broadway play Homefront, concerning a traumatised young Viet vet doing battle back home in Texas with his uncomprehending family. The good news is that Estevez is showing distinct signs of maturity. Although he plays Jeremy, the protagonist barely in his twenties, Estevez the director keeps enough distance to allow that Jeremy suffers indulgent self-pity among his several problems, and gives as unreasonably as he gets. Indeed, there's some power in the film's depiction of this upstanding, traditional family unit (solidly acted by Sheen, Bates and Williams) as being the problem rather than the solution: Jeremy's past and not his future. It's never anything more than middlebrow, obvious and quite laboured - and, for good and ill, very earnest NB



Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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This beautifully crafted documentary brings home the tragedy of the Vietnam war in ways well out of the reach of feature films. Nothing is re-enacted, and the interweaving of newsreel and amateur footage puts you right there next to the bloody stumps and the booby-traps in the elephant grass. The letters home - read by Robert De Niro, Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, Tom Berenger, Robin Williams among others - range from family ordinary to the staring horror of Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. Tears and fear are a constant refrain. An intensely moving and disturbing experience. BC

[BringEmOn]

13. A few links

http://www.bloomingtonlibrary.org/as/adv/nvr.htm

Films from the series, The Sixties: America’s Decade of Crisis and Change

DOC CENTURY The Century: America’s Time: Poisoned Dreams
DOC LBJ LBJ
DOC FREEDOM Freedom on My Mind
DOC VIETNAM Vietnam: A Television History (13 volumes—also on DVD)
DOC MAKING Making Sense of the Sixties (episodes 3 & 4)
DOC NIXON Nixon

Eyes On The Prize Video Series:

http://www.ou.edu/cas/psc/referencepage/eyes.htm

Video Series:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Videoseries.html

[Crankie Avalon]

14. How's about Oliver Stone's "Nixon"?

A bona fide camp classic. :D

[greenbriar]

17. Thank you

those are some good ones~


I also thought about From the Earth to The Moon

[Hamlette]

19. Hearts and Minds is excellent about Vietnam