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**History in Film**

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A037: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Mar 26, 2024

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Martin Scorsese’s telling of the real-life murders in the Osage communities of 1920s Oklahoma.

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A036: Eight Men Out (1988) Mar 12, 2024

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Great look at the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal. We discuss what they got right and wrong and look a little deeper at some of the key figures.

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A035: Reds (1981) Feb 27, 2024

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A look (though perhaps a boring one) into the lives of American radicals in the 1910s.

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A034: Sergeant York (1941) Feb 13, 2024

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The real story of Alvin York isn’t quite what we see in this film led by Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning performance.

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A033: Jim Thorpe — All-American (1951) Jan 30, 2024

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The story of perhaps the greatest athlete of all-time. Thorpe is probably best-known for winning the first-ever pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.

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A032: Ragtime (1981) Jan 16, 2024

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Based on the largely fictional novel by E.L. Doctorow, there are a handful of historical characters who also feature in this story set in the early 20th century.

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A031: The Wind and the Lion (1975) Jan 02, 2024

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Based very loosely on the real-life Perdicaris Affair of 1904. Teddy Roosevelt takes action to liberate an American expat who is kidnapped in Morocco.

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A030: The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978) Dec 19, 2023

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This TV movie follows the Wright Brothers’ attempt to create the world’s first powered flying machine. Don’t watch it. Listen to us instead.

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A029: There Will Be Blood (2007) Dec 05, 2023

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Oil! Daniel Day Lewis is perfect as the fictional oil man Daniel Plainview who ruthlessly attempts to dominate California oil production in the early 20th century.

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A028: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Nov 21, 2023

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Screenwriter William Goldman refused to let the studios cutdown on his historical accuracy while he himself definitely overly simplified and invented things. We look at the real Butch and Sundance [ … ]

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