American History Movies

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  1. 2. Mel Gibson stars in a drama depicting the first major battle between the United States and Vietnamese forces
  2. 4. set in the antebellum United States, a free African American man from upstate New York, was kidnapped and sold back into slavery
  3. 5. Tom Hanks plays Captain John Miller and takes his men behind enemy lines in Normandy to search for Private James Ryan
  4. 7. Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, who is hired as a butler at the White House
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 12. 1992 film starring Daniel Day Lewis as Hawkeye; based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel
Down
  1. 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
  2. 3. 1989 film about the 54th Massachusetts all black regiment that led an attack on Fort Wagner in 1863
  3. 6. 2019 film that depicts Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad
  4. 8. 2016 film starring Dorothy Vaughan;three African American women serve as the brains of NASA
  5. 11. 1990 film starring Kevin Costner as a Civil War veteran who develops a relationship with a band of Lakota Indians