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UNCONQUERED
Movie
1947
Gary Cooper, Howard da Silva
Fort Pitt, 1763
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phrYEKv0rmw&t=3s
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The Declaration of Independence
Philadelphia
July 4, 1776
1776
Movie
A film adaptation of the stage musical 1776
The Second Continental Congress, meeting in
Philadelphia, considers the possibility of
independence from England
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin
Franklin discuss the drafting of the
Declaration of Independence
1972
2:46:38 / 166 min., 167 min. / extended
director's cut
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ngcau
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The French Revolution
La Révolution Française
1789 to 1799
Movie 1989
In French with English sub-titles
Part 1.
2:45:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiiAHSi_48&t=9s
Part 2.
2:33:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQFTEjP54Q&t=7s
La Révolution Française
1989
English Version
Part 1.
2:57:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CN6YRDUxA
Part 2.
2:57:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUH8Pb4Ouxw&t=0s
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
1789
1935 movie
With Charles Laughton and Clark Gable
https://m.ok.ru/video/6835034720966
1962 movie
With Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
https://m.ok.ru/video/2129583934115
1984 movie
With Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson
https://m.ok.ru/video/1011695094452
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Battle of Waterloo
1815
Soviet-Italian movie filmed in Ukraine
with Rod Steiger as Napoleon and
Christopher Plummer as Wellington
1970
https://m.ok.ru/video/1539994880710
FAN CUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSaGPIpb830
Dubbed in French (02:08:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4CkWkl8A8
Dubbed in German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOhpY5gIkA
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
The Battle of the Alamo
San Antonio, Texas
March 6, 1836
Movie
Walt Disney
Davy Crockett
1954
Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwQDEiPhUE
The Alamo
1960 movie with John Wayne
2:35:15
https://m.ok.ru/video/878463027714
British and Irish Defenders at the Alamo
Chris Green / The History Chap
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Texas: Part of Mexico
2:18 Santa Anna
2:54 Texas Revolt
4:03 New Orleans Greys
5:29 Siege of Bexar
6:23 The Alamo
7:10 Bowie & Travis
8:08 Carey's Artillery Company
9:17 Mexicans Arrive
9:51Siege of the Alamo
10:36 Immortal 32
13:09 The Alamo Piper
14:20 Battle of the Alamo
16:37 Republic of Texas
18:23 Not a Zulu in Sight!
October 15, 2025
19:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_gVhlKEYdI
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxFc5KRSac&t=30s
Movie 1936
With Errol Flynn
1:55:21
https://ok.ru/video/1904514108084
Movie 1967
With Trevor Howard and John Gielgud
2:05:17
https://m.ok.ru/video/2448060517070
or
https://m.ok.ru/video/2482076060270
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Custer's Last Stand, 1876
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON
Movie 1941
Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer
https://m.ok.ru/video/3820153998030?st._aid=VideoState_open_album
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Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
1957 film
Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp
Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday
The gunfight at the O. K. Corral
Tombstone, Arizona Territory
1881
https://m.ok.ru/video/7627101506254
Showdown at OK Corral
Appointment with Destiny
Documentary
Narrated by Lorne Greene
The David Wolper series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAh3delv2k
The O. K. Corral (Old Kindersley) was a
livery and horse corral from 1879 to 1888
in the mining boomtown of Tombstone,
Arizona Territory, near the border with
Mexico.
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Thomas Edison lights up Manhattan
1882
Edison, the Man
1940 movie
Spencer Tracy
https://m.ok.ru/video/287230003875
Edison
Documentary
American Experience
2015
1 hr. 53 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxGcesmSXc&t=395s
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Gordon of Khartoum
General Gordon
Charles George Gordon
In 1994 and 1885, a religious leader, the Mahdi,
led an army into the Sudan.
General Charles Gordon defended Khartoum, the main
city of the Sudan.
Gordon of Khartoum
BBC documentary
Narrated by Robert Hardy
1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1ZGGfHw_M
Khartoum
Movie
1966
Charlton Heston as Gordon
2:16:11
https://m.ok.ru/video/7961694636750
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Gentleman Jim
The story of James J. Corbett - Gentleman
Jim Corbett, world heavyweight boxing
champion (1892 - 1897)
1942
Errol Flynn as Gentleman Jim Corbett
Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan
With Jack Carson, Alan Hale
1:44:51
https://m.ok.ru/video/6848460556998
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THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
The first powered flight in history
December 17, 1903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o-fhBKf8Y
The Wright Brothers
Documentary
Paul E. Garber, Smithsonian Institution
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbM3nJ7r2M&t=170s
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Henry Ford
1863 - 1947
Mass production
The Assembly line
Division / Specialisation of labour
Doubling workers' pay, the eight-hour work-day,
five-day work week
Affordable cars at low prices
The Model T, 1908
Henry Ford's Mirror of America
Documentary
1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_L5FBZ2mA4&t=116s
Henry Ford II
1917 - 1987
Henry Ford's grandson
Head of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to
1980
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XJRU3YOlT4
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THE TITANIC
1912
A Night to Remember
1958 Hollywood movie
Kenneth More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-WVFhoXJQQ
Colourised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDh5CjsEbiE&t=13s
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JESS WILLARD BEATS JACK JOHNSON
Havana, Cuba
1915
Jess Willard knocked out the world heavyweight
boxing champion Jack Johnson in the 26th round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPXB9OLrAnA
Jack Johnson was world heavyweight boxing
champion from 1908 to 1915.
Johnson was a black man.
Johnson as from Texas, age 37.
Jess Willard was heavyweight champion from
1915 to 1919.
Willard was a tall cowboy from Kansas, age 33.
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Catherine the Great
Movie 1934
With Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1:35:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdtgdN3rFg&t=465s
The Scarlet Empress
Movie 1934
With Marlene Dietrich
1:45:02
https://m.ok.ru/video/2650351274523
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Karl Marx
1818 - 1883
The Communist Manifesto
1848
Das Kapital
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy
Russian author
1828 - 1910
WAR AND PEACE
A novel about Napoleon's invasion of Russia
in 1812
1869
Movie
1956
Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Anita Ekberg
3:28:23
https://m.ok.ru/video/2124911020707
ANNA KARENINA
A novel about the aristocracy in Russia
in the late 1800s
1878
Movie
1935
Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan
https://m.ok.ru/video/294321195683
Movie
1948
Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson
2:19:29
https://m.ok.ru/video/6736666888866
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Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Novel
1851
Movie 1956
Gregory Peck
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j0pz9
Billy Budd, Sailor
Unfinished novella
Movie 1962
Peter Ustinov
https://m.ok.ru/video/3438638664192
or
https://m.ok.ru/video/9096163297849
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
A novel
1895
The American Civil War in 1862
A movie
Audie Murphy
1951
https://ok.ru/video/4216633690804
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THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
A novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
1940
Nevada, 1885
A movie
1943
Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews,
Anthony Quinn
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8szpws
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Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din
A poem
1890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWyyectufs&t=45s
Movie
1939
https://m.ok.ru/video/276410862243
Mandalay
A poem
1890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mRt50wyaLg
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