Films with Educational content or relevance
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Economics
The Economics of Seinfeld
Environmental Issues
Wall of Films - more than 2900 videos on social and environmental issues
History
American Civil War
Gone with the Wind
Ancient Greece
Helen of Troy
Troy
200
Ancient Rome
Ben Hur
Gladiator
Czarist Russia
Fiddler on the Roof - Oppression faced by the Jewish people in turn of the century Czarist Russia.
French Revolution
Les Miserables
Napoleonic Wars
Hornblower series
Master and Commander
World War 1
Behind Enemy Lines
War Horse
World War 2
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Valiant (animated)
Sound of Music - Nazi take over of Austria
The Piano - Warsaw
Valkyrie - Assassination attempt of HitlerThe Hiding Place- WW 2 and life in Nazi concentration camps
Literature
Great Expectations
Little Women
Narnia
Nineteen Eighty Four
Persuasion
The Golden Compass
Vanity fair
Wuthering Heights
Musicians
Beethoven - Immortal Beloved
Mozart - Amadeus
Science
Series: Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Shakespeare
Cliffs Notes and Cambio - Short (8mins) cartoons on Shakespeare's plays
Social and Cultural
Downton Abbey (Series) - England 1912 to 1925
More Links to films:
More historical films here:
http://www.imdb.com/list/YBF7U7ywnIk/
History in 100 movies :
http://www.listal.com/list/100-movies
15 Greatest Epic History movies
http://listverse.com/2009/04/30/top-10-greatest-epic-history-movies/