US History in Film = MovieTopics/Genres


Exploration and Discovery

The Colonial Era

The French and Indian War

Revolutionary America

The Early National Period

Westward Expansion, Part I

The Alamo

Sectionalism and Slavery

Civil War

Reconstruction

Westward Expansion, Part II

Custer

Billy the Kid

The James Gang

The Earps

Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill

Miscellaneous Western Films

The Gilded Age

Progressivism

World War I

The Roaring Twenties

Gangsters

Depression and New Deal

Films about Journalism

World War II

The Korean War

Cold War

Postwar Noir

  • 99 River Street (1953)
  • Angel Face (1952)
  • Armored Car Robbery (1950)
  • Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
  • Backfire (1950)
  • Beat the Devil (1953)
  • Big Caper, The (1957)
  • Big Combo, The (1955)
  • Big Hangover, The (1950)
  • Big Heat, The (1953)
  • Big Sleep, The (1946)
  • Big Steal, The (1949)
  • Black Hand (1950)
  • Blackout (1954)
  • Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
  • Blue Gardenia, The (1953)
  • Blueprint for Murder, A (1953)
  • Boomerang! (1947)
  • Born to Be Bad (1950)
  • Born to Kill (1947)
  • Breaking Point, The (1950)
  • Brute Force (1947)
  • Bullet for Joey, A (1955)
  • Cape Fear (1962)
  • Cause for Alarm! (1951)
  • City Streets (1931)
  • Clash By Night (1952)
  • Conflict (1945)
  • Cover Up (1949)
  • Crack-Up (1946)
  • Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
  • Crime of Passion (1957)
  • Crime Wave (1954)
  • Crooked Way, The (1949)
  • Cry Danger (1951)
  • Cry of the City (1948)
  • D.O.A. (1949)
  • Damned Don't Cry, The (1950)
  • Danger Signal (1945)
  • Dangerous Mission (1954)
  • Dark Corner, The (1946)
  • Dark Passage (1947)
  • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
  • Dead Reckoning (1947)
  • Deadline at Dawn (1946)
  • Deception (1946)
  • Detour (1945)
  • Dial 1119 (1950)
  • Dillinger (1945)
  • Double Deal (1950)
  • Double Indemnity(1944)
  • Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
  • East of the River (1940)
  • Fast and the Furious, The (1955)
  • Fear (1946)
  • Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
  • Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)
  • Follow Me Quickly (1949)
  • Force of Evil (1948)
  • Fourteen Hours (1951)
  • Gangster, The (1947)
  • Grand Central Murder (1942)
  • He Ran All the Way (1951)
  • He Walked By Night (1948)
  • High Wall (1947)
  • His Kind of Woman (1951)
  • Hollow Triumph (The Scar) (1948)
  • Hoodlum, The (1951)
  • House of Numbers (1957)
  • House of Strangers (1949)
  • Human Desire (1954)
  • Hunt the Man Down (1950)
  • I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
  • I Walk Alone (1948)
  • I'll Get You (1952)
  • Illegal (1955)
  • Impact (1949)
  • In a Lonely Place (1950)
  • In Fast Company (1946)
  • Jeopardy (1953)
  • Joe MacBeth (1955)
  • Johnny Allegro (1958)
  • Johnny Angel (1945)
  • Johnny Eager (1941)
  • Johnny O'Clock (1947)
  • Johnny Trouble (1957)
  • Kansas City Confidential (1952)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • Killer McCoy (1947)
  • Killing, The (1956)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • Kiss of Death (1947)
  • Knock on Any Door (1949)
  • Lady in the Lake (1946)
  • Laura (1944)
  • Lonelyhearts (1958)
  • Long Night, The (1947)
  • Lured (1947)
  • Man Between, The (1953)
  • Man with a Cloak, The (1951)
  • Ministry of Fear (1944)
  • Moontide (1942)
  • Murder, My Sweet (1944)
  • Mystery Street (1950)
  • Naked City, The (1948)
  • Naked Kiss, The (1964)
  • Narrow Margin, The (1952)
  • Nickel Ride, The (1974)
  • Night Tide (1961)
  • No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
  • Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
  • Nora Prentiss (1947)
  • On Dangerous Ground (1952)
  • One Girl's Confession (1953)
  • Out of the Fog (1941)
  • Panama Lady (1939)
  • Party Girl (1958)
  • People Against O'Hara, The (1951)
  • Pitfall (1948)
  • Possessed (1947)
  • Pushover (1954)
  • Quicksand (1950)
  • Race Street (1948)
  • Racket, The (1951)
  • Raw Deal (1948)
  • Reckless Moment, The (1949)
  • Red Light (1949)
  • Scar, The (Hollow Triumph) (1948)
  • Scarlet Street (1945)
  • Second Chance (1953)
  • Shock (1946)
  • Shockproof (1949)
  • Side Street (1949)
  • Slander (1957)
  • Split Second (1953)
  • Steel Trap, The (1952)
  • Storm Fear (1955)
  • Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The (1946)
  • Stranger, The (1946)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • Street with No Name, The (1948)
  • Strip, The (1951)
  • Sudden Fear (1952)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  • Tension (1949)
  • They Won't Believe Me (1947)
  • This Gun for Hire (1942)
  • Threat, The (1949)
  • Three Strangers (1946)
  • Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
  • Truth About Murder, The (1946)
  • Two Smart People (1946)
  • Undercurrent (1946)
  • Unfaithful, The (1947)
  • Vice Squad (1953)
  • Vicki (1953)
  • Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
  • Whiplash (1948)
  • Whirlpool (1949)
  • Window, The (1949)
  • Woman in the Window, The (1944)

The 1950s

  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • 42nd Street Forever (2006)
  • 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
  • Abandon Ship (1957)
  • Absent-Minded Professor, The (1961)
  • Ada (1961)
  • Adam's Rib (1949)
  • Affair in Sumatra (1955)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  • America in Primetime (D) (2011)
  • American Classics (2001)
  • American Experience: Kinsey (D) (2005)
  • American Experience: Ripley: Believe It or Not! (D) (2014)
  • American Experience: Tupperware! (D)
  • American Graffiti (1973)
  • American in Paris, An (1951)
  • Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  • Angels' Alley (1948)
  • Angels in the Outfield (1951)
  • Angry Silence, The 1960)
  • Anna Lucasta (1958)
  • Any Number Can Play (1949)
  • Apartment, The (1960)
  • Apartment for Peggy (1948)
  • April in Paris (1952)
  • As Young As You Feel (1951)
  • At War with the Army (1950)
  • Autumn Leaves (1956)
  • Aviator, The (2004)
  • B. F.'s Daughter (1948)
  • Baby Doll (1956)
  • Babysitter's Guide (1950s)
  • Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
  • Bachelor Party (1957)
  • Back Street (1961)
  • Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
  • Bad for Each Other (1953)
  • Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
  • Because You're Mine (1952)
  • Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
  • Bells Are Ringing (1960)
  • Best of Everything, The (1959)
  • Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
  • Betsy, The (1978)
  • Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004)
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
  • Big Carnival, The (AKA “Ace in the Hole”) (1951)
  • Big Circus, The (1959)
  • Big City (1948)
  • Big Clock, The (1948)
  • Big Gusher, The (1951)
  • Big Knife, The (1955)
  • Big Leaguer (1953)
  • Big Show, The (1961)
  • Big Sleep, The (1946)
  • Big Wheel, The (1949)
  • Bigamist, The (1953)
  • Biography: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief (D)
  • Biography: Richard Nixon (D) (1994)
  • Birds, The (1963)
  • Black Widow (1954)
  • Blast from the Past (1999)
  • Blaze (1989)
  • Born Reckless (1959)
  • Born to Be Bad (1950)
  • Born Yesterday (1950)
  • Bottle and the Throttle, The (1968)
  • Boys Night Out (1962)
  • Brewster's Millions (1945)
  • Bride by Mistake (1944)
  • Bride Goes Wild (1948)
  • Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
  • Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
  • Buddy Holly Story, The (1978)
  • Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
  • Butterfield 8 (1960)
  • Caged (1950)
  • Call Me Madam (1953)
  • Call Northside 777 (1948)
  • Calloway Went Thataway (1951)
  • Capote (2005)
  • Caretakers, The (1963)
  • Carnal Knowledge (1971)
  • Carousel (1956)
  • Cash McCall (1960)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  • Chapman Report, The (1962)
  • Child of Divorce (1946)
  • Claire (1956)
  • Claudelle Inglish (1961)
  • Clipped Wings (1953)
  • Cobweb, The (1955)
  • Code Two (1952)
  • Company She Keeps, The (1950)
  • Confidence Girl (1952)
  • Confidentially Connie (1953)
  • Corpse Came C.O.D., The (1947)
  • Count the Hours (1953)
  • Crest of the Wave (1954)
  • Cynthia (1947)
  • Daisy Kenyon (1947)
  • Damn Yankees (1958)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989)
  • Dear Brigette (1965)
  • Death of a Salesman (1966)
  • Death of a Salesman (1985)
  • Decks Ran Red, The (1958)
  • Delicious Dishes (D) (1950)
  • Della (1964)
  • Designing Woman (1957)
  • Desire in the Dust (1960)
  • Destination Earth (1956)
  • Destination Murder (1950)
  • Detective Story (1951)
  • Divorce (1945)
  • Do Someone a Favor (1954)
  • Doctor and the Girl, The (1949)
  • Don't Get Angry (1953)
  • Don't Trust Your Husband (1948)
  • Door-to-Door Maniac (1961)
  • Double Deal (1950)
  • Double Dynamite (1951)
  • Dream Wife (1953)
  • Dreamboat (1952)
  • Easy Living (1949)
  • Easy to Love (1953)
  • Educational Archives, The: On the Job (2002)
  • Educational Archives, The: Religion (2002)
  • Educational Archives, The: Social Engineering 201 (2003)
  • Edward, My Son (1949)
  • Egyptian, The (1954)
  • Eisenhower's Secret War: The Lure of the Presidency (D) (2013)
  • Elopement (1951)
  • Engagement Party (1956)
  • Executive Suite (1954)
  • Exploitation Explosion (2006)
  • Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
  • Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
  • Fallen Angel (1945)
  • Father Is a Bachelor (1950)
  • Fie Minutes to Live (1961)
  • Flim-Flam Man, The (1967)
  • Follow the Boys (1963)
  • For Heaven's Sake (1950)
  • Fountainhead, The (1949)
  • From the Terrace (1960)
  • Fugitive Kind, The (1959)
  • Full of Life (1956)
  • Fuller Brush Girl, The (1950)
  • Gang Boy (1954)
  • Gene Krupa Story, The (1959)
  • Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  • Giant (1956)
  • Girl Can't Help It, The (1956)
  • Girl from Jones Beach, The (1949)
  • Girl He Left Behind, The (1956)
  • Girl in Every Port, A (1952)
  • Give a Girl a Break (1953)
  • Going All the Way (1997)
  • Golden Years, The (Short) (1960)
  • Good Eating Habits (1951)
  • Good Humor Man, The (1950)
  • Good Morning (1959)
  • Good Sam (1948)
  • Good Table Manners (1951)
  • Goodbye, My Lady (1956)
  • Great American Pastime, The (1956)
  • Great Diamond Robbery, The (1953)
  • Great Events Video Library, The: The 1950s (D)
  • Great Morgan, The (1946)
  • Great Santini, The (1979)
  • Gun Crazy (1949)
  • Hairy Ape, The (1944)
  • Half a Hero (1953)
  • Happy Years, The (1950)
  • Harriet Craig (1950)
  • Hazard House (1954)
  • Heiress, The (1949)
  • Helen Morgan Story, The (1957)
  • Hell Drivers (1957)
  • Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
  • Her Kind of Man (1946)
  • Her Twelve Men (1954)
  • High Air (1956)
  • High Cost of Loving, The (1958)
  • High Points in History: The Innocent Years
  • High Society (1956)
  • High Tide at Noon (1957)
  • Hipsters (2008)
  • Hit the Deck (1955)
  • Hoax, The (2006)
  • Hold That Line (1952)
  • Hole in the Head, A (1959)
  • Holiday Affair (1949)
  • Holiday for Sinners (1952)
  • Holiday from Rules (1958)
  • Hollywoodland (2006)
  • Home Before Dark (1958)
  • Home from the Hill (1960)
  • Hometown Story (1951)
  • Horror of It All, The (1964)
  • Hounddog (2007)
  • House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
  • How to Be a Woman (1950s-70s)
  • How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
  • How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1967)
  • Hucksters, The (1947)
  • Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)
  • Human Desire (1954)
  • Hurrying Kind, The (1950s)
  • I.Q. (1994)
  • I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
  • I Confess (1953)
  • I Love a Mystery (1945)
  • I Love My Husband ... But! (1946)
  • I Married a Woman (1956)
  • I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
  • I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
  • If I'm Lucky (1946)
  • If You Knew Susie (1948)
  • I'll Get By (1950)
  • I'm All Right Jack (1959)
  • In Cold Blood (1967)
  • In Cold Blood (1996)
  • Infamous (2006)
  • Innocent Affair, An (1948)
  • It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
  • It Happened to Jane (1959)
  • It Happens Every Spring (1949)
  • It Should Happen to You (1954)
  • It's a Great Feeling (1949)
  • It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
  • Jackpot, The (1950)
  • Jazz Singer, The (1952)
  • Jazz Singer, The (1959)
  • John Loves Mary (1949)
  • Johnny Belinda (1948)
  • Joker Is Wild, The (1957)
  • Judge Steps Out, The (1949)
  • Jungle Jim (1948)
  • Key to the City (1950)
  • Kid From Left Field, The (1953)
  • Kill the Umpire (1950)
  • Killers, The (1946)
  • Killers, The (1964)
  • King in New York, A (1957)
  • Kinsey (2004)
  • Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)
  • L. A. Confidential (1997)
  • Las Vegas Story, The (1951)
  • Last Time I Saw Paris, The (1954)
  • Last Voyage (1960)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
  • Legend of Lylah Clare, The (1968)
  • Let's Make It Legal (1951)
  • Let's Make Love (1960)
  • Life of Her Own, A (1950)
  • Little Fugitive (1953)
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night (1973)
  • Long Haul, The (1957)
  • Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
  • Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collections
  • Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
  • Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  • Love Nest (1951)
  • Lover Come Back (1961)
  • Luckiest Guy in the World, The (1947)
  • Lucky Me (1954)
  • Lusty Men, The (1952)
  • Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
  • Madison Avenue (1942)
  • Magnificent Obsession (1954)
  • Man in the Dark (1953)
  • Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)
  • Man in the Net, The (1959)
  • Man in the White Suit, The (1951)
  • Man on Fire (1957)
  • Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
  • Man with the Golden Arm, The (1955)
  • Man's Favorite Sport (1964)
  • March of Time, The (1930s-1950s)
  • Mark, The (1961)
  • Markheim (1958)
  • Marnie (1964)
  • Marty (1955)
  • Mary Had a Little ... (1961)
  • Maryjane (1968)
  • Match Your Mood with Westinghouse (1950s)
  • Matinee (1993)
  • Mating Game, The (1959)
  • Mating of Millie, The (1948)
  • Mating Season, The (1951)
  • Melvin and Howard (1980)
  • Mental Hospital (1953)*
  • Miami Expose (1956)
  • Middle of the Night (1959)
  • Mighty Joe Young (1949)
  • Mildred Pierce (1945)
  • Mildred Pierce (2011)
  • Million Dollar Nickel, The (1952)
  • Millionaire for Christy, A (1951)
  • Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
  • Mister 880 (1950)
  • Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
  • Moon Is Blue, The (1953)
  • Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
  • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
  • My Blue Heaven (1950)
  • My Dog Skip (2000)
  • My Favorite Year (1982)
  • My Man and I (1952)
  • My Pal Gus (1952)
  • My Reputation (1946)
  • My Sister Eileen (1955)
  • My Six Convicts (1952)
  • My Week with Marilyn (2011)
  • My Wife's Best Friend (1952)
  • Mysterious Intruder (1946)
  • Never Say Goodbye (1946)
  • Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960)
  • New York in the Fifties (D) (2001)
  • Next Voice You Hear, The (1950)
  • Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed, A (1958)
  • No Down Payment (1957)
  • Not So Long Ago: Post World War II America (D)*
  • Number Five Checked Out (1956)
  • N.Y., N.Y. (1957)
  • October Sky (1999)
  • On the Bowery (1957)
  • On the Road (2012)
  • One Big Affair (1952)
  • One Man's Way (1964)
  • Opportunities Unlimited (1950s)
  • Opposite Sex, The (1956)
  • Our Very Own (1950)
  • Outrage (1950)
  • Pajama Game, The (1957)
  • Pal Joey (1957)
  • Pat and Mike (1952)
  • Patterns (1958)
  • Payment on Demand (1951)
  • People Will Talk (1951)
  • Perfect Strangers (1950)
  • Peyton Place (1957)
  • Pickup Alley (1957)
  • Picnic (1955)
  • Pink Flamingos (1972)
  • Pioneers of Television (D) (2008-14)
  • Place in the Sun, A (1951)
  • Planet 51 (2009)
  • Pleasantville (1998)
  • Please Believe Me (1950)
  • Prima Donna (1956)
  • Polio Crusade, The (2009)
  • Pollock (2000)
  • Power and the Prize, The (1956)
  • Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)
  • Prehistoric Women (1967)
  • Pretty Baby (1950)
  • Pretty Girl, The (1950)
  • Pride of St. Louis, The (1952)
  • Prima Donna (1955)
  • Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The (2005)
  • Producers, The (1968)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Queen Bee (1955)
  • Quiz Show (1994)
  • R.F.D. Greenwich Village (1950s)
  • Radio Stars on Parade (1945)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
  • Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
  • Reformer and the Redhead, The (1950)
  • Relaxed Wife, The (1957)
  • Return to Peyton Place (1961)
  • Revolutionary Road (2008)
  • Right Cross (1950)
  • Right or Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions) (1951)
  • River of No Return (1954)
  • River's Edge, The (1957)
  • Rookie, The (1959)
  • Room for One More (1952)
  • Rosie (1950s)
  • Ruby Gentry (1952)
  • Santa Claus (1959)
  • Saturday's Hero (1951)
  • Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: A Midsummer Night's Daydream (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: A Ticket for Thaddeus (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Bitter Waters (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Claire (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Cry Justice (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Day Is Day (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Every Man Had Two Wives (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Hot Cargo (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: It's a Most Unusual Day (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: It's Always Sunday (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Life of Vernon Hathaway (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Meet the Governor (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: One Against Many (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Partners (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Rookie of the Year (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Brush Roper (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Carroll Formula (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Day I Met Caruso (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Dream (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Final Tribute (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: The Silent Partner (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: Titantic Incident (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: What Day Is It? (1955)
  • Screen Directors Playhouse: White Corridors (1955)
  • Secret Life of an American Wife, The (1968)
  • Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (1947)
  • Seventh Victim, The (1943)
  • Sharkfighters, The (1956)
  • Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
  • She Couldn't Say No (1954)
  • She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
  • Shock Treatment (1964)
  • Shoot First (1953)
  • Silent Partner, The (1955)
  • Sister Kenny (1946)
  • Six Murderous Beliefs (1955)
  • Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
  • Slender Thread, The (1965)
  • Small Town Girl (1953)
  • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
  • Snake Pit, The (1948)
  • Sniper, The (1952)
  • Snow in August (2001)
  • So Goes My Love (1946)
  • So You Want to Hold Your Wife (1947)
  • So Young, So Bad (1950)
  • So Your Wife Wants to Work (1956)
  • So You're Going to Be a Father (Short) (1947)
  • Soldier in the Rain (1963)
  • Solid Gold Cadillac, The (1956)
  • Some Came Running (1958)
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
  • Something for the Birds (1952)
  • Somewhere in the Night (1946)
  • Sound and the Fury, The (1959)
  • Sound Off (1952)
  • Speeches of Dwight D. Eisenhower, The (D)
  • Speeches of Richard Nixon, The (D) (1988)
  • Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  • State of the Union (1948)
  • Stolen Life, A (1946)
  • Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
  • Stork Club, The (1945)
  • Storm Center (1956)
  • Storm Warning (1951)
  • Story of Esther Costello, The (1957)
  • Strait-Jacket (1964)
  • Stratton Story, The (1949)
  • Street with No Name, The (1948)
  • Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
  • Summer Holiday (1948)
  • Summer Stock (1950)
  • Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  • Sword of Villon, The (1956)
  • Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949)
  • Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
  • Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
  • Ten North Frederick (1958)
  • Tennessee Champ (1954)
  • Terrible Truth, The (1951)
  • That Hagan Girl (1947)
  • There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
  • There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
  • These Wilder Years (1956)
  • They Won't Believe Me (1947)
  • Thin Man Goes Home, The (1944)
  • This Could Be the Night (1957)
  • This Is Your Story (1950s)
  • Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
  • Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
  • Three Husbands (1950)
  • Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
  • Thrill of It All, The (1963)
  • Tight Spot (1955)
  • Time of Your Life, The (1948)
  • Time Out for Trouble (n.d.)
  • Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
  • Top Banana (1954)
  • Town Without Pity (1961)
  • Toys in the Attic (1963)
  • Tree of Life, The (2011)
  • Triple Trouble (1950)
  • Trouble Along the Way (1953)
  • Trouble in Store (1953)
  • Trouble Maker, The (1957)
  • Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
  • Twelve Angry Men (1957)
  • Twenty Plus Two (1961)
  • Two for the Seesaw (1962)
  • Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)
  • Twonky, The (1953)
  • Tycoon (1947)
  • Unkonown, The (1946)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Visit to Santa, A (Short) (1951)
  • Walk in the Clouds, A (1995)
  • Washington Story (1952)
  • We Learn About the Telephone (1957)
  • We Never Sleep (1956)
  • Weaker Sex, The (1949)
  • Weddings and Babies (1958)
  • Welcome Stranger (1947)
  • What Were We Thinking? From Innocence to Decadence (2004)
  • Wheeler Dealers, The (1963)
  • Where Is Jane Doe? (1956)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  • Wicked as They Come (1956)
  • Wild One, The (1953)
  • Wise Blood (1979)
  • Woman of Distinction, A (1950)
  • Women’s Prison (1955)
  • Women's World, A (1954)
  • Written on the Wind (1956)
  • Wrong Man, The (1956)
  • Wrong Way Butch (Short) (1950)
  • Yellow Cab Man, The (1950)
  • You for Me (1952)
  • You Were Meant for Me (1948)
  • Young Man with Ideas, A (1952)
  • Young Philadelphians, The (1959)
  • Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
  • Zelig (1983)

Vietnam

  • 1968 Tunnel Rats (2008)
  • Air America (1990)
  • American Experience: Daughter from Danang (D) (2002)
  • American Experience: LBJ (D)
  • American Experience: My Lai (2010)
  • American Experience: War Letters (D)*
  • Americana (1981)
  • Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
  • Ballad of Andy Crocker, The (1969)
  • Bat*21 (1988)
  • Battle's Poison Cloud (D) (2004)
  • Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003)
  • Beautiful Country, The (2004)
  • Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
  • Big Bad Love (2001)
  • Born on the 4th of July (1989)
  • Boys in Company C, The (1978)
  • Bright Shining Lie, A (1998)
  • Brotherhood of Death (1976)
  • Brothers in Arms (2004)
  • Camden 28, The (2007)
  • Casualties of War (1989)
  • Combat Cinema: Hollywood Goes to War (1998)
  • Coming Home (1978)
  • Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, The (1974)
  • Cronkite Remembers: Times of Turbulence (1997)
  • Dead Presidents (1995)
  • Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (2005)
  • Death Raiders (1988)
  • Deer Hunter, The (1978)
  • Distant Thunder (1988)
  • F.T.A. (F@*K the Army) (?)
  • Faith of My Fathers (2005)
  • Fifth of July (1982)
  • Firebase Gloria (1989)
  • First Blood (1982)
  • First Blood: Part 2 (1985)
  • Fog of War, The (2003)
  • Friendly Fire (1979)
  • Frontline: Vietnam - The 10,000 Day War (D)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • Gardens of Stone (1987)
  • Gay Deceivers, The (1969)
  • Getting Straight (1970)
  • Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
  • Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
  • Gordon’s War (1973)
  • Green Berets, The (1968)
  • Green Dragon (2001)
  • Greetings (1968)
  • Hair (1979)
  • Hamburger Hill (1987)
  • Hanoi Hilton, The (1987)
  • Hearts and Minds (1974)
  • Heaven and Earth (1993)
  • Hollywood Vietnam (2005)
  • In Country (1989)
  • In the Year of the Pig (D) (1968)
  • Inglorious Bastards 2: Hell's Heroes (1987)
  • Iron Triangle, The (1989)
  • Jacknife (1989)
  • Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
  • Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley (1975)
  • Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (D)
  • Killing Fields, The (1984)
  • Last Detail, The (1973)
  • Letters to the Wall: A Documentary on the Vietnam Wall Experience (2002)
  • Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1998)
  • Lost Command (1966)
  • Mannigan's Force (1988)
  • Missing in Action (1984)
  • Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
  • Missing in Action 3: Braddock (1988)
  • Missing in America (2005)
  • More American Graffiti (1979)
  • Music Within (2007)
  • Nam Angels (1989)
  • Off Limits (1988)
  • Operation Nam (1986)
  • Park Is Mine, The (1986)
  • Path to War (2002)
  • Pentagon Papers, The (2003)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Promise of Love, The (1980)
  • Quiet American, The (1958)
  • Quiet American, The (2002)
  • Rambo III (1988)
  • Rambo: First Blood (1982)
  • Rambo: First Blood, Part 2 (1985)
  • Regret to Inform (1998)
  • Remembering Vietnam: The Wall (2008)
  • Rescue Dawn (2006)
  • Resting Place (1986)
  • Rolling Thunder (1977)
  • Siege of Firebase Glory, The (1989)
  • Sir! No Sir! The Suppressed Story of the G. I. Movement to End the War in Vietnam (2005)
  • Strike Commando (1987)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Tigerland (2000)
  • Tropic Thunder (2008)
  • U.S. vs. John Lennon, The (2006)
  • Ugly American, The (1963)
  • Under Heavy Fire (AKA "Going Back") (2001)
  • Veteran, The (2006)
  • Vietnam: A Television History - Legacies (1985)
  • Vietnam: America's Conflict (2008)
  • Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (D)
  • Vietnam: The War at Home (D)
  • Vietnam War Stories (1987-88)
  • Walking Dead, The (1995)
  • Wall, The (1998)
  • War at Home, The (1996)
  • War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
  • Warner at War (2008)
  • We Were Soldiers (2002)
  • Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
  • Winter Soldier (1972)
  • Word of Honor (2003)
  • Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982)

Youth Culture and Protest

  • 50 Years with Peter, Paul, and Mary (D) (2012)
  • 60s, The (1999)
  • 1968 (D)*
  • 1968, with Tom Brokaw (2007)
  • 1969 (1988)
  • Across the Universe (2007)
  • Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The (1953)
  • Age 13 (1955)
  • Alcohol is Dynamite (1967)
  • Alex in Wonderland (1970)
  • Alice’s Restaurant (1969)
  • All Fall Down (1962)
  • All the Real Girls (2003)
  • All the Right Moves (1983)
  • Almost Famous (2000)
  • American Experience: 1964 (D) (2014)
  • American Experience: 1967 (D)
  • American Experience: Soundtrack for a Revolution (D)*
  • American Experience: The Summer of Love (D) (2007)
  • American Hot Wax (1978)
  • Animal House (1978)
  • Baby, The (1973)
  • Bad Boy (1949)
  • Badlands (1973)
  • Bananas (1971)
  • Barbarella (1968)
  • Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
  • Beach Party (1963)
  • Beat Generation, The (1959)
  • Because They're Young (1960)
  • Beloved Brat, The (1938)
  • Beyond the Sea (2004)
  • Big Cube, The (1969)
  • Big Fish (2003)
  • Bikini Beach (1964)
  • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
  • Billie (1965)
  • Billy Jack (1971)
  • Blackboard Jungle (1955)
  • Blood Freak (1972)
  • Blue Denim (1959)
  • Blue Sunshine (1978)
  • Booked for Safekeeping (1960)
  • Bop Girl (1957)
  • Born Losers, The (1967)
  • Breaking Away (1979)
  • Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
  • But the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006)
  • Butterflies Are Free (1972)
  • Bye-Bye Birdie (1963)
  • Candy Snatchers, The (1974)
  • Careless Years, The (1957)
  • Carnal Knowledge (1971)
  • Carnival of Souls (1962)
  • Cataline Caper (1967)
  • Changing: A State of Georgia Social Seminar (1971)
  • Chapman Report, The (1962)
  • Che! (1969)
  • Che (2008)
  • Chelsea Walls (2001)
  • Chicago 10 (2007)
  • Child Is Waiting, A (1963)
  • Children’s Hour, The (1961)
  • Clambake (1967)
  • Cocaine Fiends, The (1936)
  • Cold Wind in August, A (1961)
  • Colors (1988)
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  • Crime in the Streets (1956)
  • Crisis in Morality (1962)
  • Crowded Sky, The (1960)
  • Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
  • Crumb (1994)
  • Cry-Baby (1990)
  • Curious Alice (1968)
  • Daughter of the Streets (1990)
  • Day in the Death of Donnie B., A (n.d.)
  • Dazed and Confused (1993)
  • Death By Invitation (1971)
  • Delinquents, The (1957)
  • Devil's Harvest (1942)
  • Diner (1982)
  • Distant Drummer: A Movable Feast (Short) (1970)
  • Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness (Short) (1972)
  • Doctor and the Girl, The (1949)
  • Donnie Darko (2001)
  • Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
  • Don't Knock the Rock (1956)
  • Don’t Knock the Twist (1962)
  • Drug Years, The #3 (2006)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The (1972)
  • Endless Summer, The (1966)
  • Enter Laughing (1967)
  • Evening Star, The (1996)
  • Explosive Generation, The (1961)
  • Fame (1980)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
  • Field of Dreams (1989)
  • Finian's Rainbow (1968)
  • Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  • For Those Who Think Young (1964)
  • Foreigner, The (1978)
  • Free Samples (2012)
  • Fritz the Cat (1972)
  • Frontline: Generation Like (D) (2014)
  • Fugitive Kind, The (1959)
  • Gang Boy (1954)
  • Gas! (1971)
  • Getting Straight (1970)
  • Girl in Lovers Lane, The (MST 3000) (1960)
  • Girl in the Gold Boots (MST 3000) (1968)
  • Girls on Probation (1938)
  • Girls on the Loose (1958)
  • Go, Johnny, Go! (1958)
  • Go-Go Mania (AKA Pop Gear) (1965)
  • Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
  • Graduate, The (1967)
  • Grease (1978)
  • Grease 2 (1982)
  • Greetings (1968)
  • Grindhouse (2007)
  • Hair (1979)
  • Hair: Let the Sun Shine In (2007)
  • Hairspray (1988)
  • Halls of Anger (1970)
  • Hard Day's Night, A (1964)
  • Head (1968)
  • Hellcats, The (1967)
  • Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle (1967)
  • High School Big Shot (1959)
  • High School Confidential (1958)
  • High School High (1996)
  • High Time (1960)
  • Highly Dangerous (9150)
  • Hipsters (2008)
  • History Rocks: The Sixties (2007)
  • Hold On! (1966)
  • Holiday from Rules (1958)
  • Hoodlum Priest, The (1961)
  • Hootnanny Hoot (1963)
  • Hot Rods to Hell (1967)
  • How to Be a Woman (1950s-70s)
  • How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
  • Howl (2010)
  • I Accuse My Parents (1944)
  • I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
  • I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
  • Idolmaker, The (1980)
  • I'm Not There (2007)
  • Impossible Years, The (1968)
  • In Search of America (1971)
  • Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? The (1964)
  • In Crowd, The (1988)
  • Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
  • It's a Bikini World (1967)
  • It’s Trad, Dad! (1962)
  • Jailhouse Rock (1957)
  • Jamboree! (1957)
  • Joe (1970)
  • Keep Off the Grass (1970)
  • Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (D)
  • Kentucky Woman (1983)
  • Killing of Sister George, The (1968)
  • LSD: Insight or Insanity? (1967)
  • Last Picture Show, The (1971)
  • Last Summer (1969)
  • Last Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997)
  • Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
  • Lenny (1974)
  • Less Than Zero (1987)
  • Let's Rock! (1958)
  • Look in Any Window (1961)
  • Lord Love a Duck (1966)
  • Love Ins, The (1967)
  • Make 'em Laugh (D)
  • Marihuana (1936)
  • Medium Cool (1969)
  • Mighty Wind, A (2003)
  • Mini-Skirt Mob, The (1968)
  • Motorcycle Diaries, The (2004)
  • Mudhoney (1965)
  • Muscle Beach Party (1964)
  • Narcotics (1951)
  • Narcotics 1: Goof Balls and Tea (1958)
  • Norma Rae (1979)
  • Notorious Bettie Page, The (2005)
  • On the Loose (1951)
  • On the Road (2012)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • One Got Fat - Bicycle Safety (1963)
  • One-Eyed King (2001)
  • Ordinary People (1980)
  • Pajama Party (1964)
  • Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
  • Paper Chase, The (1973)
  • Patty Hearst (1988)
  • Peach Girl, The (1931)
  • Pecker (1998)
  • Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  • Perversion for Profit (1965)
  • Psycho A-Go-Go (1965)
  • Psych-Out (1968)
  • Putney Swope (1969)
  • R. P. M. (1970)
  • Rat Pfink and Boo Boo (1966)
  • Raw Meat (1975)*
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Reefer Madness (1936)
  • Reefer Madness (2005)
  • Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
  • Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
  • Revolution (1968)
  • Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
  • Ring-A-Ding Rhythm! (It's Dad, Trad!) (1962)
  • Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
  • Risky Business (1983)
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
  • Rock Around the Clock (1956)
  • Rock Rock Rock (1956)
  • Rocket Science (2007)
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)
  • Rose Tattoo, The (1955)
  • Rumble on the Docks (1956)
  • Running On Empty (1988)
  • Rushmore (1998)
  • Sadist, The (1963)
  • Save the Last Dance (2001)
  • September 30th, 1955 (1977)
  • Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
  • Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
  • She Freak (1967)
  • Shrink (2009)
  • Shy Guy (1947)
  • Sing Boy Sing (1958)
  • Sixteen Candles (1984)
  • Skidoo (1968)*
  • Slacker (1991)
  • Small Circle of Friends, A (1980)
  • Something Wild (1961)
  • Spider Baby (1968)
  • Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  • Staircase (1969)
  • Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
  • Stand and Deliver (1988)
  • Stand By Me (1986)
  • Steal This Movie (2000)
  • Strange Behavior (1981)*
  • Strawbwrry Statement, The (1970)
  • Streamers (1983)
  • SubUrbia (1996)
  • Summer of '63 (1972)
  • Sunday in New York (1963)
  • Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
  • Superheroes: A Never Ending Battle (D) (2013)
  • Susan Slade (1961)
  • Susan Slept Here (1954)
  • Synanon (1965)
  • Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
  • Take the Money and Run (1969)
  • Taking Woodstock (2009)
  • Tall Story (1960)
  • Tea and Symphony (1956)
  • Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
  • Teenage Rebel (1956)
  • Teresa (1951)
  • Terrible Truth, The (1951)
  • Texasville (1990)
  • That Thing You Do! (1996)
  • That's What I Am (2011)
  • There's a Message in a Bottle (1969)
  • Thumbsucker (2005)
  • Time Out for Trouble (1961)
  • To Your Health (1960s)
  • Tribes (1970)
  • Trouble Maker, The (1957)
  • Trouble with Angels, The (1966)
  • Troublemaker, The (1964)
  • Truth About Youth, The (1930)
  • Twist Around the Clock (1961)
  • Two Alone (1934)
  • Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
  • Two Weeks with Love (1950)
  • UHF (1989)
  • U. S. vs. John Lennon, The (2006)
  • Underground (1976)
  • Untamed Youth (1957)
  • Up the Down Staircase (1967)
  • Victim (1961)
  • Violent Years, The (1956)
  • Walk on the Moon, A (1999)
  • Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
  • Walkout (2006)
  • Wanderers, The (1979)
  • Warriors, The (1979)
  • Waterland (1992)
  • Way We Were, The (1973)
  • West Side Story (1961)
  • What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
  • What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
  • When I'm Old Enough ... Good-bye (1962)
  • When You Grow Up (Short) (1973)
  • Where Angels Go ... Trouble Follows (1968)
  • Where the Boys Are (1960)
  • Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
  • Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
  • Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1967)
  • Wild and Wicked, The (1956)
  • Wild Angels, The (1966)
  • Wild at the Wheel (1970)
  • Wild Guitar (1962)
  • Wild in the Country (1961)
  • Wild in the Streets (1968)
  • Wild on the Beach (1965)
  • Wild Rebels, The (MST 3000) (1967)
  • Wild Ride (1960)
  • Wild, Wild Planet, The (1967)
  • Woodstock (1970)
  • Woodstock - Now and Then (2009)
  • Woodstock: The Reunion
  • Year That Trembled, The (2002)
  • Young Don't Cry, The (1957)
  • Young Ideas (1943)
  • Young Lovers, The (1964)
  • Young Savages, The (1961)
  • Young Stranger, The (1957)
  • Young Swingers, The (1963)
  • You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

The 1960s

Civil Rights

Immigration

American Politics and Surveys

Films about 9/11 and America and the Middle East