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Movies/Documentaries on my History Topics?

I have a History GCSE exam next week and to help revise I was wondering if you knew of any movies or documentaries (preferably UK documentaries) that cover these topics: USA 1941 to 1980 -Black Americans and the Second World War -Double V campaign -Women and the war -Japanese Americans -Economy during the war -Red Scare 1945 to 1954 -McCarthyism -Kennedy and the New Frontier -Johnson and the Great Society -Nixon and Watergate -Womens Movement of the 1960s -Student Movement -Brown v Topeka case -Little Rock Arkansas -Rosa Parks -Freedom Riders -James Meredith Case -1963 March on Washington -1964 Civil Rights Act -1965 Voter Registration Act -The Black Power Movement -Affirmative Action India 1900 to 1948 -Morley Minto Reforms -Impact of First World War -Montague Chelmsford Reforms -Rowlatt Laws -Amritsar Massacre Gandhi and Satyagraha -The Simon Commission -The Salt March -The Irwin Gandhi Pact -The Round Table Talks -Government of India Act -India and the Second World War -Simla Conference -Labour Government 1945 -Birth of India and Pakistan -Assassination of Gandhi Thank you very much.

Public Comments

1. Movies are things to eat popcorn with. Documentaries are good - but do you really have the time to sit through 60 minutes worth of total irrelevance or worse - total rubbish. I'm not gonna pass comment on how you're cutting it a bit fine to start revising for those coming exams. TV and films are always gonna be a poor second to your class notes in any exam. Sometimes real life just isn't exciting enough to make a film about. The BBC run the Learning Zone programmes in early morning - which is an ideal time for taping. See if you can find a friend who recorded them (they were on in January this year), and if they'll let you watch them. http://www.bbc.net.uk/learning/subjects/history.shtml -- is a good link to get started, coz it relates strongly to what you have been studying - as opposed to someone making up a story, loosely basing it in your time-period, and making a film out of it. Use the internet for some hard-research. Cut and paste each line of what you're looking for into Google - and read, and read and read. Think of how these things affected people "at the front line" and even those in communities many miles away. How did these actions/events affect people at the time and subsequently through history.