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Films you could or should see : [ must-see films]
Amistad (Spielberg) more on the film St Michel's the trial facts and disputes a film in making	Slavery and the path to the Civil War
The scarlet letter	life in Puritan times (after Nathaniel Hawthorne's eponym novel)
The New World	Captain Smith and Pocahontas, early settlement days in Jamestown, 1607.
The last of the Mohicans On the trail of the Last of the Mohicans	fiction, yes, but good reconstitution of life on the Frontier
The Indian in the cupboard Indians and Barbary (script of a BBC documentary) The Iroquois Confederacy an Iroquois village and tools	fantasy well worth watching
Dances with wolves film review	when colonizing the Wild West meant eradicating the Plain Indian Nations
Little Big Man	a western seen from a mixed-blood character. Excellent.
Far and away	Irish immigrants flee famine and poverty to America.
Gangs of New York On Wikipedia	or what immigrants actually found on landing.
Titanic about the real Titanic from Wikipedia	were it only for the poorer ones' dreams and expectations.
Burn ! (aka 'Queimada')	Rule, Britannia.
White Fang (Croc Blanc) more on the film (1) more on the film (2)	Jack London's novel.
Smoke Signals Who is who ? Forgiving our fathers	All-Indian road movie. Excellent.
Cheyenne Autumn (John FORD)	when Hollywood realized what Native American Nations had endured.
Driving Miss Daisy from Wikipedia	getting to know people from different communities.
Fried green tomatoes (at the Whistle Stop Café)	charming comedy based on the eponym novel by Fannie Flagg.
Honkytonk man	Trying to make it big in Nashville in Slump times. Directed and starred by Clint Eastwood.
Mississippi Burning (A.Parker) more on the CD	Violence in the Deep South in the '50s, based on a true story. Very impressive.
Betrayed (Costa Gavras)	Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago. FBI undercover agent Catherine Weaver (Winger), alias Katie Phillips, sets out to infiltrate a farming community, suspected of harbouring those responsible..
Malcolm X (Spike Lee) a site devoted to his memory from Wikipedia	an other Black leader in the days of the Civil Rights Movements. Spike LEE's version is very controversial.
True crime (Clint Eastwood) more on the film (and on the CD)	How death penalty is processed today. Very impressive.
A river runs through it	Moving story in magnifiscent Montana settings.
the Siege	3 years BEFORE 9/11, or when fiction ... Violent.
Arlington Road	A 1999 film which tells the story of a widowed George Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbors are involved in terrorism and becomes obsessed with foiling their terrorist plot. Scary and disturbing.
Beyond borders the eponym actual NGO	about NGOs, greed and indifference. Violent.
Stand by me	A 1986 adventure-drama film directed by Rob Reiner. The title comes from a song with the same title by Ben E. King and is based on the novella The Body by Stephen King, who called it his favorite adaptation of one of his works up to that point .
White man's burden	White Man's Burden is a 1995 dramatic film about racism in an alternate America where African Americans and Caucasian Americans have reversed cultural roles. .
Erin BROCKOVITCH the real Erin Brockovitch	Erin Brockovich is a 2000 drama film which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the American West Coast energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E.
Philadelphia	A 1993 film revolving around HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and prevailing attitudes concerning gays and homophobia. .
The Emerald forest (John Boorman)	The Emerald Forest is a 1985 film set in the Brazilian Rainforest. It is based on a true story. .
Thelma and Louise	a 1991 American road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. The film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled home lives.
Bonneville (2006)	Yet an other road movie, but quite unexpected.
non-US themes
Brassed off	a moving film on a dying Yorkshire colliery in gloomy Thatcher days
Whale Rider from Wikipedia	a New Zealand Maori film.
Bend it like Beckham	A comedy about communities in Britain.
The man who would be king	after a short story by Rudyard KIPLING.
Billy Elliot	Be who you are, what you are in today's Britain.
Ther's only one Jimmy GRIMBLE	A boy who dreams of becoming a football star discovers his dreams might not be as far-fetched as they seem in this comedy-drama.
Michael COLLINS the Irish leader (Wikipedia)	about an Irish Revolutionary leader in the early 1920s.
The COMMITMENTS	A brilliant Alan Parker comedy about a rythm and blues band in Ireland.
Cry freedom	South Africa in the days of the Apartheid or how and why Steven BIKO died. Tough and violent.
Red dust	Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid. Under the Truth and Reconciliation terms, the whole truth must come out..
In my country (John BOORMAN)	"A beautiful and important film about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It will engage and influence not only South Africans, but people all over the world concerned with the great questions of human reconciliation, forgiveness, and tolerance." Nelson MANDELA.
Odd man out	The film's opening intertitle reads: "This story is told against a background of political unrest in a city of Northern Ireland. It is not concerned with the struggle between the law and an illegal organisation, but only with the conflict in the hearts of the people when they become unexpectedly involved.