Mostly fictional, but Bloody Christmas is very much based on a real event. And it’s just a great movie!

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This Korean War movie features two real-life pilots on a mission in the early days of the conflict.

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Interesting look at one of the primary writers affected by the Blacklist in Hollywood during the second Red Scare.

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Not the strongest version of this story we could have gotten, but Chadwick Boseman does a great job as Jackie Robinson.

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This all-time cinema classic isn’t a true story, but still gives us plenty to talk about.

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Best picture winner about three soldiers returning home from the war and struggling to rejoin society.

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Continuing our discussion of It’s a Wonderful Life!

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This Christmas classic is obviously fictional, but there’s plenty of history and early-20th century Americana to discuss. We went long so this is part 1 of 2.

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Set at the end of the samurai era in Japan, this movie oversimplifies and outright distorts the actual history.

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An instant classic that very closely parallels actual events from Japanese history.

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