A look at the home front during World War II. While the characters here are fictitious, the league and the teams shown were real.

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A very detailed look at the lead up to the attack on Pearl Harbor from both the American and Japanese perspective.

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Martin Scorsese’s biopic of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.

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As we prepare for World War II, we look at the life of Charlie Chaplin and discuss his lampooning of Adolf Hitler in The Great Dictator.

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Based on John Steinbeck’s novel of Oklahoma farmers moving to California during the Great Depression.

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A bit too Hollywood, but this film gives a good look at the career of James Braddock and the Great Depression.

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An almost-entirely fictionalized account of Elliot Ness and his quest to bring down Al Capone.

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We use these fictional stories to highlight Hollywood’s transition from the Silent Era to Talkies. The Jazz Singer (1927) comes up as well.

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Martin Scorsese’s telling of the real-life murders in the Osage communities of 1920s Oklahoma.

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Great look at the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal. We discuss what they got right and wrong and look a little deeper at some of the key figures.

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