Movie Marathon (Part 3)

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American movies based on Canadian books

  1. Rachel, Rachel (1968, based on Margaret Laurence’s 1966 novel A Jest of God)
  2. Airport
  3. Room
  4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  5. Life of Pi
  6. The Handmaid’s Tale
  7. Anne of Green Gables
  8. The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz
  9. The Secret of Roan Inish
  10. Never Cry Wolf

Pass.

(Nitpick re Number 8: it’s “Duddy,” not “Dudley.”)

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Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
163

Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
164

Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
165

Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
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Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator

There was a Roman Empire, it did fight Germanic tribes, it did have gladiatorial games and there were emperors named Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Everything else, well….

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I tried to Do-Right.

Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator
  6. Yesterday
168

Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator
  6. Yesterday
  7. History of the World, Part I
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Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator
  6. Yesterday
  7. History of the World, Part I
  8. Year One
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Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator
  6. Yesterday
  7. History of the World, Part I
  8. Year One
  9. 1776

As far as we know, the Founders did not sing and dance as they worked together.

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Movies based on pseudohistory

  1. In Pursuit of Honor
  2. Amadeus
  3. Inglorious Basterds
  4. Hidalgo
  5. Gladiator
  6. Yesterday
  7. History of the World, Part I
  8. Year One
  9. 1776
  10. The Lion in Winter

Based on historical people and situations, but portrays a fictional event.

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
172

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
173

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
174

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
175

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremaine
176

Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremaine
  6. Drums Along the Mohawk
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Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremaine
  6. Drums Along the Mohawk
  7. The Scarlet Coat
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Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremain
  6. Drums Along the Mohawk
  7. The Scarlet Coat
  8. John Adams

And nitpick, Johnny Tremain, not Tremaine. One of my favorite books when I was 10; I read it several times.

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Films About the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremain
  6. Drums Along the Mohawk
  7. The Scarlet Coat
  8. John Adams
  9. The Howards of Virginia
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Films about the American Revolution

  1. 1776
  2. Valley Forge
  3. The Patriot
  4. Revolution
  5. Johnny Tremain
  6. Drums Along the Mohawk
  7. The Scarlet Coat
  8. John Adams
  9. The Howards of Virginia
  10. The Crossing

Pass.