For this professional assignment, select two movies from the list below. The movies cannot be from the same time period. For example, do not pick Spartacus AND Gladiator.

For each of the two movies you select, write a 300- to 500-word review explaining why this film should or should not be considered for viewing in a World Literature class. You can briefly discuss what you like or do not like about the movie, but focus more on the historical value.

Use the following criteria in your review:

1. Analyze the film’s structure. Is historical chronological order adhered to or violated? Is the structure of the film used to evoke an emotional response? 

2. How is the central conflict presented and resolved? 

3. Analyze the film’s point of view. Is the narrator a character in the story or not? How objective is the narrator and how limited are his or her perceptions? 

4. Analyze the theme. What concept, thought, opinion or belief is the author expressing? Is the author of the film making a value judgement? Is the theme/message still valid today? 

5. Overall, does the movie’s narrative accurately portray the historical time period? Why or why not?

Agony and the Ecstacy, The

Alamo, The

All the President’s Men

Amadeus

Amistad

Apollo 13

Ben-Hur

Birth of a Nation, The

Black Rose, The

Bloody Sunday

Braveheart

Breaker Morant

Bridge Too Far, A

Casablanca

Chariots of Fire

Cleopatra

Conqueror

Curse of the Golden Flower

El Cid

Empire of the Sun

Exodus

Four Feathers, The

Gallipoli

Gandhi

Gladiator

Grapes of Wrath, The

Hotel Rwanda

I, Claudius

Invictus

Killing Fields, The

Kingdom of Heaven

King’s Speech, The

Last Emperor, The

Last of the Mohicans, The

Lawrence of Arabia

Munich

Mutiny of the Bounty

Out of Africa

Patriot, The

Passage to India, A

Patton

Pompei

Raid on Entebbe

Schindler’s List

Seven Samurai, The

Shogun

Soldier’s Story, A

Spartacus

Stalingrad

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

Troy

Viva Zapata

Zulu