help with movies --
Pamela Sorooshian
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
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"Bonnie and Clyde", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Once Upon a Time in
America", "Road to Perdition", "Cinderella Man", Frank Capra Gangster
Films, "The Untouchables", "Paper Moon", and "Citizen Kane" are a few.
My personal favorite of these is "Once Upon a Time in America". Also,
there is a book by Andrew Bergmann (sp?) called "We're in the Money:
Depression America and its Films". Check that out.
Ben Lovejoy
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America", "Road to Perdition", "Cinderella Man", Frank Capra Gangster
Films, "The Untouchables", "Paper Moon", and "Citizen Kane" are a few.
My personal favorite of these is "Once Upon a Time in America". Also,
there is a book by Andrew Bergmann (sp?) called "We're in the Money:
Depression America and its Films". Check that out.
Ben Lovejoy
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] help with movies --
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
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The Journey of Natty Gann is one of our favorites here.
This is a list of historical movies in chronological order:
http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/movies.html
Vicki
Pamela Sorooshian wrote:
This is a list of historical movies in chronological order:
http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/movies.html
Vicki
Pamela Sorooshian wrote:
>I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
>Great Depression. Any ideas?
>
Sandra Dodd
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Great Depression. Any ideas?-=-
Paper Moon
Annie
The Grapes of Wrath
For a very interesting perspective though, maybe watch movies made
during the Depression! Top Hat's a good one. Lots of them deal with
the fantasies of having money, nice clothes, traveling, staying in
posh hotels and eating in restaurants...
Annie's another fantasy of the era.
I have purchased, but am afraid to watch yet, a documentary called
Riding the Rails. It's about hobos, and says there were "250,000
teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains."
My dad left west Texas at 15, on a motorcycle, went to San Francisco
to work in the shipyards, and joined the army with parental
permission at 16, I think (could be wrong). He was on a troop ship
on the way to Germany when the war ended in Europe. I don't think he
ever rode a train, but on my mother's side, one of her uncles died
jumping off a train in the early 30's (I think). He broke his neck.
They used to say he was probably pushed. So the whole thing creeps
me out, but Holly LOVES that period.
I could sing them some tearjerker ballads. "The Little Paper Boy,"
and "Put my Little Shoes Away," but I'm not sure I could get through
them without crying. That second one I learned from my mom and I
always hear it in her voice.
SAD, sad, sad times. And on top of the financial disasters and the
dust bowl, there were contagious fevers everywhere, and farm
injuries, and... And lots of people who lived then are still
alive. Keith's dad turns 90 at the end of this month, the same month
Keith turns 50 and Kirby turns 20. They span a century pretty well,
with a pre-Depression birth, a mid-century and a 1986.
Here's a list from the site here: http://www.vernonjohns.org/
snuffy1186/movies.html
I have it linked here in case you ever want to find it again easily:
http://sandradodd.com/movies
GREAT DEPRESSION USA
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) -- fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years and the White House Years
(1976, 1977)
Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
All the King's Men (1949) -- the Kingfisher, populist governor of
Louisiana
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) -- populist threat to FDR
Blaze (1989) -- Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long in lust with famous
stripper
The Miracle Worker (1962) -- story of blind and deaf Helen Keller,
friend of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
The Glen Miller Story (1953)-- Big Band leader
The Benny Goodman Story (1956) -- Big Band leader
Gypsy (1962) -- stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her over-bearing mother
Henry and June (1990) -- writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward); writer
Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros)
Frida (2003) -- two left-wing Mexican artists interact with the
Rockefellers
There's also a gangsters/prohibition section, and no doubt movies
about that period concerning Europe and other places.
Sandra
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Great Depression. Any ideas?-=-
Paper Moon
Annie
The Grapes of Wrath
For a very interesting perspective though, maybe watch movies made
during the Depression! Top Hat's a good one. Lots of them deal with
the fantasies of having money, nice clothes, traveling, staying in
posh hotels and eating in restaurants...
Annie's another fantasy of the era.
I have purchased, but am afraid to watch yet, a documentary called
Riding the Rails. It's about hobos, and says there were "250,000
teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains."
My dad left west Texas at 15, on a motorcycle, went to San Francisco
to work in the shipyards, and joined the army with parental
permission at 16, I think (could be wrong). He was on a troop ship
on the way to Germany when the war ended in Europe. I don't think he
ever rode a train, but on my mother's side, one of her uncles died
jumping off a train in the early 30's (I think). He broke his neck.
They used to say he was probably pushed. So the whole thing creeps
me out, but Holly LOVES that period.
I could sing them some tearjerker ballads. "The Little Paper Boy,"
and "Put my Little Shoes Away," but I'm not sure I could get through
them without crying. That second one I learned from my mom and I
always hear it in her voice.
SAD, sad, sad times. And on top of the financial disasters and the
dust bowl, there were contagious fevers everywhere, and farm
injuries, and... And lots of people who lived then are still
alive. Keith's dad turns 90 at the end of this month, the same month
Keith turns 50 and Kirby turns 20. They span a century pretty well,
with a pre-Depression birth, a mid-century and a 1986.
Here's a list from the site here: http://www.vernonjohns.org/
snuffy1186/movies.html
I have it linked here in case you ever want to find it again easily:
http://sandradodd.com/movies
GREAT DEPRESSION USA
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) -- fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years and the White House Years
(1976, 1977)
Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
All the King's Men (1949) -- the Kingfisher, populist governor of
Louisiana
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) -- populist threat to FDR
Blaze (1989) -- Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long in lust with famous
stripper
The Miracle Worker (1962) -- story of blind and deaf Helen Keller,
friend of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
The Glen Miller Story (1953)-- Big Band leader
The Benny Goodman Story (1956) -- Big Band leader
Gypsy (1962) -- stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her over-bearing mother
Henry and June (1990) -- writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward); writer
Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros)
Frida (2003) -- two left-wing Mexican artists interact with the
Rockefellers
There's also a gangsters/prohibition section, and no doubt movies
about that period concerning Europe and other places.
Sandra
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Sandra Dodd
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"Bonnie and Clyde", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Once Upon a Time in
America", "Road to Perdition", "Cinderella Man", Frank Capra Gangster
Films, "The Untouchables", "Paper Moon", and "Citizen Kane" are a few.
My personal favorite of these is "Once Upon a Time in America". Also,
there is a book by Andrew Bergmann (sp?) called "We're in the Money:
Depression America and its Films". Check that out.
Ben Lovejoy-=-
Ben, what about To Kill a Mockingbird? Wrong period?
Sandra
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"Bonnie and Clyde", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Once Upon a Time in
America", "Road to Perdition", "Cinderella Man", Frank Capra Gangster
Films, "The Untouchables", "Paper Moon", and "Citizen Kane" are a few.
My personal favorite of these is "Once Upon a Time in America". Also,
there is a book by Andrew Bergmann (sp?) called "We're in the Money:
Depression America and its Films". Check that out.
Ben Lovejoy-=-
Ben, what about To Kill a Mockingbird? Wrong period?
Sandra
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MomtoLJ
East Of Eden...
Grapes of Wrath
Paper Moon
I'll think of some more...
Joylyn
Pamela Sorooshian wrote:
Grapes of Wrath
Paper Moon
I'll think of some more...
Joylyn
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On Jul 19, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Pamela Sorooshian wrote:
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.
(OK, so they're both horse movies...)
Nancy, recovering from three hours of ComicCon... and only four full
days to go! Oh, my poor feet...
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> Great Depression. Any ideas?
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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.
(OK, so they're both horse movies...)
Nancy, recovering from three hours of ComicCon... and only four full
days to go! Oh, my poor feet...
Momma
The original Annie is set during the Great Depression.
Dawn
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
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Dawn
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
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Schuyler Waynforth
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The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Ford?
The Wizard of Oz is a Great Depression movie. The black and white
scenes depict a Kansas bereft of topsoil.
Schuyler
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Liz in AZ
I don't think anyone has mentioned The Sting.
--- In [email protected], Pamela Sorooshian
<pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
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<pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
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> I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during
> Great Depression. Any ideas?
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> -pam
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Beth Fleming
Hi Pam,
We watched Where the Red Fern Grows last night....it was wonderful!! Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression. I think you'd enjoy it!
Peace,
Beth
Pamela Sorooshian <pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
Unschooling Mom to Frances (9), Will (7), Catherine (2), and Grace (6 months)
www.6uvus.blogspot.com
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We watched Where the Red Fern Grows last night....it was wonderful!! Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression. I think you'd enjoy it!
Peace,
Beth
Pamela Sorooshian <pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
Great Depression. Any ideas?
-pam
Unschooling Mom to Frances (9), Will (7), Catherine (2), and Grace (6 months)
www.6uvus.blogspot.com
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I checked netflix and they have 3 versions of this movie listed & NONE of them are listed as having subtitles or closed captions... do you know one way or another if any of them have them? (the listing for Red Fern 2 says "subtitles none" and not a word about captions)...
Any info on this would be appreciated!
Speaking of wonderful movies, last night we watched Fly Away Home... loved it.. wasn't about the depression, but was about a girl who raised some geese & well, I won't spill any more beans other than to say that it was about following something that's important & about a parent who supported that...
Cheers,
Jessica
http://weavingrainbow.com/HSblog
Any info on this would be appreciated!
Speaking of wonderful movies, last night we watched Fly Away Home... loved it.. wasn't about the depression, but was about a girl who raised some geese & well, I won't spill any more beans other than to say that it was about following something that's important & about a parent who supported that...
Cheers,
Jessica
http://weavingrainbow.com/HSblog
> Hi Pam,
> We watched Where the Red Fern Grows last night....it was wonderful!! Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression. I think you'd enjoy it!
> Peace,
> Beth
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> Pamela Sorooshian <pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
> I have some kids who want to watch movies that take place during the
> Great Depression. Any ideas?
>
> -pam