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**History in Film**

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A056: Devotion (2022) Mar 25, 2025

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This Korean War movie features two real-life pilots on a mission in the early days of the conflict.

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A055: Trumbo (2015) Mar 11, 2025

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Interesting look at one of the primary writers affected by the Blacklist in Hollywood during the second Red Scare.

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A054: 42 (2013) Feb 25, 2025

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Not the strongest version of this story we could have gotten, but Chadwick Boseman does a great job as Jackie Robinson.

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A053: The Godfather (1972) Feb 11, 2025

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This all-time cinema classic isn’t a true story, but still gives us plenty to talk about.

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A052: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Jan 28, 2025

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Best picture winner about three soldiers returning home from the war and struggling to rejoin society.

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A051b: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), pt. 2 Jan 21, 2025

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Continuing our discussion of It’s a Wonderful Life!

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A051a: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), pt. 1 Jan 14, 2025

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This Christmas classic is obviously fictional, but there’s plenty of history and early-20th century Americana to discuss. We went long so this is part 1 of 2.

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W045b: The Last Samurai (2003) Dec 31, 2024

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Set at the end of the samurai era in Japan, this movie oversimplifies and outright distorts the actual history.

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W033b: Shogun (2024) Dec 17, 2024

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An instant classic that very closely parallels actual events from Japanese history.

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W012b: The Green Knight (2021) Dec 03, 2024

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A tale from Arthurian legend, so nothing historic. But it gives us a chance to talk about the history of Arthurian legend itself.

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