American History Movies
Across
- 2. Mel Gibson stars in a drama depicting the first major battle between the United States and Vietnamese forces
- 4. set in the antebellum United States, a free African American man from upstate New York, was kidnapped and sold back into slavery
- 5. Tom Hanks plays Captain John Miller and takes his men behind enemy lines in Normandy to search for Private James Ryan
- 7. Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, who is hired as a butler at the White House
- 9. this place takes place during the American Revolution starring Mel Gibson and Heath ledger; peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is forced to lead a colonial militia after a British officer murders his son
- 10. 2020 western starring Tom Hanks as a Civil War veteran who crosses path with a young girl who was taken by Kiowa Native Americans along his travels reading the news
- 12. 1992 film starring Daniel Day Lewis as Hawkeye; based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel
Down
- 1. starring Joe Rantz, this movie takes place at the height of the Great Depression; members of a rowing team earn a spot at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
- 3. 1989 film about the 54th Massachusetts all black regiment that led an attack on Fort Wagner in 1863
- 6. 2019 film that depicts Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad
- 8. 2016 film starring Dorothy Vaughan;three African American women serve as the brains of NASA
- 11. 1990 film starring Kevin Costner as a Civil War veteran who develops a relationship with a band of Lakota Indians