These movies will help with your revision of the course. Suggestions on where you can watch the movie are also included (this may vary over time), as well as a link to the trailer.
If you can recommend any other good movies for this list, let me know in class and I can add them.
Ancient Ireland
Movie: "The Secret of Kells" (2009)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Early Christian Ireland
Movie: "Pilgrimage" (2017)
Availability: Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes
Ancient Rome
Movie: "Gladiator" (2000)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Medieval Europe
Movie: "Braveheart" (1995)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The Renaissance
Movie: "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The Age of Exploration and Discovery
Movie: "1492: Conquest of Paradise" (1992)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The Reformation
Movie: "Luther" (2003)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The Plantations
Movie: "Black '47" (2018)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The American Revolution
Movie: "The Patriot" (2000)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The French Revolution
Movie: "Les Misérables" (2012)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The 1798 Rebellion
Movie: "The Rising of the Moon" (1957)
Availability: DVD/Blu-ray
The Irish Famine
Movie: "Black '47" (2018)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Late 19th Century Ireland
Movie: "Michael Collins" (1996)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Early 20th Century Ireland
Movie: "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (2006)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Movie: "The Treaty" (1991)
Availability: YouTube.
Ireland in the 1960s
Movie: "The Magdalene Sisters" (2002)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Movie: "Hunger" (2008)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Women in 20th Century Ireland
Movie: "Dancing at Lughnasa" (1998)
Availability: DVD/Blu-ray
World War I
Movie: "1917" (2019)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022)
Availability: Netflix
Life in Communist Russia
Movie: "Doctor Zhivago" (1965)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Life in Nazi Germany
Movie: "Schindler's List" (1993)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Movie: "Downfall" (2004)
Availability: iTunes, Google Play.
Movie: "Nuremberg" (2000)
Full Movie linked (YouTube).
World War II
Movie: "Saving Private Ryan" (1998)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play
Movie: "Dunkirk" (2017)
Availability: Netflix
Genocide
Movie: "Hotel Rwanda" (2004)
Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play