Additional List: American Culture in Film


Topic
Title
Rating & Reason
Colonization
The New World (2005)
PG-13: Violence
Revolution
A More Perfect Union (1989)
G: Drama
1776 (1972)
PG: Drama
Civil War
The General (1926), (BW, Silent)
NR: Mild slapstick violence
Gettysburg (1993)
PG: Violence and language
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
NR: Some innuendo, violence
Lincoln (2012)
PG-13: Language, violence
Little Women (1994)
PG: Drama
Gone With the Wind (1939)
PG: Violence, implied sensuality
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
PG: Violence, racism
Westward Expansion, Native Americans
The Big Country (1958)
NR: Violence
Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13: Violence, sensuality
Fort Apache (1948, BW)
NR: Limited violence
My Darling Clementine (1946, BW)
NR: Some violence
Oklahoma (1955)
NR: Some violence, mentions of sensuality
Red River (1948, BW)
NR: Violence, implied sensuality
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
G
The Searchers (1956)
NR: Violence
Shane (1953)
NR: Some violence
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, BW)
PG: Violence
World War I
Sergeant York (1941, BW)
NR: Violence
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
NR: Violence
The 1920s, Prohibition and 1930s
Cinderella Man (2005)
PG-13 Language, Violence
City Lights (1931, BW, Silent)
NR: Slapstick violence
Days of Heaven (1978)
PG: Violence, language
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
PG: Language, drama
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, BW)
NR: Some violence
Modern Times (1936, BW, Silent)
G: Comedic drug use
Sherlock Jr. (1924, BW, Silent)
NR: Slapstick violence
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
NR: Comedic violence
Some Like it Hot (1959, BW)
NR: Gender differences
Swing Time (1936, BW)
G:
World War II
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, BW)
NR: Drama
Going My Way (1944, BW)
NR
The Great Escape (1963)
NR: Violence
Patton (1970)
PG Language, violence
They Were Expendable (1945)
NR: Violence
Late 40s to 1950s
Back to the Future (1985)
PG: Language, violence, some sexual innuendo
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
PG-13: Language, violence, some sensuality
Dr. Stragelove: Or How I Learned  …Love the Bomb  (1964, BW)
PG: Some innuendo, violence
The Majestic (2001)
PG: Violence, language
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
NR: Violence
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
PG-13: Violence, thematic elements
The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! (1966)
NR: Violence, language
Racial Equality
42 (2013)
PG: Language, Violence
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PG: Language, some violence
Glory Road (2006)
PG: Violence and some minor language
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
NR Language
The Help (2011)
PG-13: Language, violence, some scenes involving a miscarriage
Imitation of Life (1934, BW), (1959)
NR: Drama, language
Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13: Violence, language, sensuality
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
NR: minimal language
Remember the Titans (2000)
PG: Violence, language
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
PG: Language, violence
The 1960s
Apollo 13 (1995)
PG: Language, some sensuality
Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13: Some violence, language and sensuality
Thirteen Days (2000)
PG-13: Language
American Politics
Citizen Kane (1941, BW)
NR: Implied sensuality
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, BW)
NR: Some minimal violence
The American Dream
The Gold Rush (1925, BW, silent)
NR: Some violence
Groundhog Day (1993)
PG: Some violence, drama
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, BW)
NR: Some minor violence
The Miracle Worker (1962, BW), (2000)
NR: Some drama, minimal violence
Moby Dick (1956)
NR: Violence
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
PG-13: Language
Temple Grandin (2010)
PG: Language, violence
Sports in American Culture
The Blind Side (2009)
PG-13: Language, violence
Field of Dreams (1989)
PG: Language, violence
Hoosiers (1986)
PG: Language, minor violence
A League of Their Own (1992)
PG: Language, some violence, some innuendo
Miracle (2004)
PG: Language, some alcohol use
The Natural (1984)
PG: Sensuality, some violence and language
Rocky (1976)
PG: Violence, language, sensuality
The Rookie (2002)
G: Drama
Rudy (1993)
PG: Violence, language
Living in America
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
PG: Language, drama
A Christmas Story (1983)
PG: Some language, violence
Clueless (1995)
PG-13: Innuendo, language
The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13: Sensuality, Violence, Language
Hoop Dreams (1994), Documentary
PG-13: Some strong language, drug usage
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
PG: Minimal violence
October Sky (1999)
PG: Language
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
PG-13: Language, violence, sensuality
Searching for Bobby Fisher (1993)
PG: Some violence
Smoke Signals (1998)
PG-13: Violence and language
Spanglish (2004)
PG-13: Language, sensuality
Stand and Deliver (1988)
PG Language
The Straight Story (1999)
G
Waiting For Superman (2010)
PG: Drama, language
Law in America
12 Angry Men (1957, BW), (1997)
NR: Some language
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
PG: Language, some violence
High Noon (1952, BW)
PG: Violence
Holes (2003)
PG: Violence
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, BW)
PG: Violence, drama
The Night of the Hunter (1955, BW)
NR: Some violence
The Modern Military
Taking Chance (2009)
PG: Language, violence
Modern America and Privacy
The Truman Show (1998)
PG: Language, violence
Religion
Inherit the Wind (1960, BW)
PG: Very mild language
Tender Mercies (1983)
PG: Language
On the Waterfront (1954, BW)
NR: Violence, sensuality
The Environment
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
PG: Thematic elements
The Border With Mexico
Touch of Evil (1958, BW)
PG: Violence, sensuality
Modern Consumerism
Toy Story (1995)
G: Some scary images
Science Fiction as Metaphor
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, BW)
NR: Some violence
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, BW)
NR: Drama
Planet of the Apes (1968)
G: Violence, some minimal nudity
Corporate America
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
PG: Language, violence

Inside Job (2010)
PG-13: Language, drug use

Norma Rae (1979)
PG: Sensuality, language

The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
PG: Implied sensuality, violence
Dealing with the Unknown
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG: Language, drama
E.T. (1982)
PG: Language, violence
King Kong (1933)
PG: Violence
Jaws (1975)
PG: Violence, language


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