"recent netflix or amazon prime film on history" Topic

As part of our curriculum project, I'm trying to assemble a list of RECENT (last decade, maybe) films on NF and AP which might be useful in a classroom setting (generally a short clips). I have a long list of Hollywood flicks, with notes as to how they are an d are not accurate as history. And I used to assign a major research paper, to take one or several films and evaluate to what extent they are and are not good history.

I watch a fair bit of Netflix and Prime, but am certain I have missed some good material.

So . . .

Assume you are a classroom teacher, junior high or high school, and you have the technology to show kids short clips from YouTube or NF and AP: what might you use, for teaching what?

(It's not exactly a movie, but I ALWAYS teach the transcontinental railroads with Johnny Cash singing "Ribbon of Steel."

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Netflix had a pretty good mini series on Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy war. My knowledge of the event, this seemed pretty accurate. I was actually surprised. Even got into the effect it had on US politics, big business and overseas relations. Was even surprised by a few things I thought they got wrong, but were actually fact.

There have been a couple of good pieces on young George Washington.

Also a couple of long series on the revolution, which I have NOT watched? Has anyone?

The series on the Risk of Alexander on Netfix is very good – maybe a little too lurid for really young students but very historically accurate – the House of Ga'a is also pretty good about a major figure in Yoruba history

The Netflix series on African Queens is more variable – the first season on Queen Njinga of Angola (who, I would note, was a kick-ass monarch) seems pretty accurate but the second season trying to portray Cleopatra as black (she was a Ptolmeic Greek) is treading on some thinner ice

For a view of the Cold War from the Soviet side K-19 is hard to beat

On Prime there is Gettysburg and Schindler's List – if they have Apple TV Greyhound shows the Battle of the Atlantic well

I was going to recommend Greyhound. I also like their Masters of the Air, but felt it got a bit rushed halfway through.

T-34 is an awesome movie, albeit a bit over the top, but a modern Russian movie from the Soviet pov. The ending is fantastic.

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Greyhouind was magnificent. I watched it with my nine year old grandson, who is a techie, and explained radar and sonar and torpedoes and such. Great film, great time spent. Had to convince him that men are more interesting than robots.

Hard to choose a brief scene to represent the battle of the Atlantic. Maybe when the wolfpack first approaches the convoy?

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Not sure what period you are looking for but the netflix film" the Siege of Jadotville" is excellent. It captures the essence of the book on which it is based and depicts combat in zaire in the 1960s . Irish peacekeepers besieged by local forces led by french and belgian mercenaries.

Yes, it was excellent.

But sorry, I should have specified US history for the curriculum.