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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Exellent Adventure
1 Jan 399 ***Excuse the date - I could not select 399 BC on the timeline and it represents the year of his death (month and date are unknown)
- PURPOSE: This movie was used to kickoff class becuase it spans much of history.
- FACT CHECK: Dust in the wind was referenced by Socrates and the song from Kansas
<a href='https://youtu.be/sgOpTHNBQkI' > music video
- RATING: 5
- CONNECTION: Bill & Ted came out on the day my cousin was born, Not the same year though -
1492
Determined to find a new sailing route to India, Christopher Columbus Gérard Depardieu convinces Spanish Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver) to finance an expedition. Setting sail with three ships, Columbus quells potential mutinies until the men arrive in North America. After his triumphant return home, Columbus is appointed governor of the new territory. My connection was i remember learning about this in middle school -
JerryL's A BOSS
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oliver twist
The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. My connection is i feel like this movie involves or relates into bullying -
Mongols
muji had alot of kids.
connection: my biological father has alot of kids -
lincoln
With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) brings the full measure of his passionhumanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind. -
the butler
After leaving the South as a young man and finding employment at an elite hotel in Washington, D.C., Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is hired as a butler at the White House. Over the course of three decades, Cecil has a front-row seat to history and the inner workings of the Oval Office. However, his commitment to his "First Family" leads to tension at home, alienating his wife (Oprah Winfrey) and causing conflict with his anti-establishment son. -
12 years a slave
the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he struggles continually to survive and maintain some of his dignity. Then in the 12th year of the disheartening ordeal, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Solomon's life forever.
