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# Establishment of America
*[1492] __Conquest of Paradise__:* Christopher Columbus. "Discovery" of America.
*[1608] __The New World__:* Founding of Jamestown, John Smith and Pocahontas
# Colonial America
*[1692] __The Crucible__:* Salem Witch Trials
*[1757] __The Last of the Mohicans__:* French-Indian War
# Revolutionary War
*[1776] __1776__:* Debate over declaring independence (Musical)
*[1776] __The Patriot__:* Fictionalized characters and battles representing the revolutionary war
# Early Independence
*[1812] __The Buccaneer__:* War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte
*[1836] __The Alamo__:* The battle of the Alamo, the most accurate of a group of very inaccurate movies depicting this event
# Slavery
*[1839] __Amistad__:* Pre-Civil War Slave Trade
*[1841] __12 Years a Slave__:* Slavery in mid-1800's
*[1840-1860s] __Harriet__:* Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman
# Civil War
*[1861] __Ride With the Devil__:* Early Civil War, Confederate perspective
*[1861-1863] __Glory__:* Civil War, 54th regiment the first all-black regiment int he Civil War
*[1863] __Gettysburg__:* Civil War, Battle of Gettysburg
*[1863] __Gangs of New York__:* Bloody Draft Riots. Slice of Life around Civil War (not about the war)
*[1861-1869] __Gone with the Wind__:* Southern life during the Civil War
*[1865] __Lincoln__:* Final months of the Civil War, 13th Amendment
# Gilded Age
*[1870] __The Age of Innocence__:* Gilded Age
# American West - Late 1800s
*[1881-1882] __The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford__:* American West in the late 19th century
*[1899] __Newsies__:* The newsboy strike
# Turn of the Century
*[1898-1910s] __There Will Be Blood__:* Turn of the century American oil boom
*[1900s] __Yankee Doodle Dandy__:* Turn of the Century East Coast, during oil boom in California. The start of American theater and entertainment
# World War I
*[1909-1920s] __Wilson__:* President Woodrow Wilson and World War I
*[1914-1918] __All Quiet on the Western Front__:* World War I, Trench warfare
*[1914-1918] __Wings__:* World War I, Aerial combat
*[1921] __The Immigrant__:* After World War I, immigration from war torn Europe to America
# The Great Depression
*[1909-1940s] __The Color Purple__:* Great Depression, through the lens of southern a African Americans
*[1930s] __Grapes of Wrath__:* Great Depression
# World War II
*[1943-1945] __Patton__:* World War II
*[1945] __Flags of Our Fathers__:* Battle of Iwo Jima
*[1945-1946] __The Best Years of Our Lives__:* End of World War II, the fallout of war for normal everyday Americans
# Civil Rights - Part 1
*[1947-1960s] __Cadillac Records__:* Rise of minority cultural contributions in music
*[1937-1970s] __The Butler__:* Civil Rights over several decades and presidencies
*[1944-1982] __Forrest Gump__:* Civil Rights, Entirely fictional character, passing through many real and important events
# Space Race
*[1957] __October Sky__:* Space Race, just after Sputnik
*[1947-1963] __The Right Stuff__:* Space Race
*[1961] __Hidden Figures__:* Inner workings of NASA, and racial tension
*[1961-1967] __First Man__:* The moon landing
# Cuban Missile Crisis
*[1961] __Thirteen Days__:* Cuban Missile Crisis
# Civil Rights - Part 2
*[1960s] __The Help__:* Slice of life for southern African Americans
*[1943-1965] __Malcolm X__:* Civil Rights, Malcolm X
*[1964] __Selma__:* Civil Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
# Assassination of JFK
*[1961-1969] __JFK__:* Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
# Cold War
*[1964] __Dr. Strangelove__:* Cold War, satirical
# Vietnam War
*[1965] __Good Morning Vietnam__:* Slice of life for soldiers during the Vietnam War
*[1967-1976] __Born on the 4th of July__:* Vietnam War
# Space Exploration
*[1969-1970] __Apollo 13__:* The aborted Apollo 13 mission
# Richard Nixon
*[1969-1974] __Nixon__:* The Nixon presidency
*[1972-1973] __All the President's Men__:* Watergate
# 1970s
*[1970-1978] __Milk__:* First openly Gay elected to public office
*[1976] __Dazed and Confused__:* American bicentennial slice of life, 1970s
# Iranian Hostage Crisis
*[1979] __Argo__:* Iranian hostage crisis
# 1980s
*[1989] __Do the Right Thing__:* 1980s slice of life, racial tensions
# 1990s
*[1996] __Richard Jewell__:* Centennial Olympic Park bombing
*[1999] __I'm Not Ashamed__:* Columbine High School shooting
# War on Terror
*[2001] __United 93__:* September 11th 2001 "9/11"
*[2001-2011] __Zero Dark Thirty__:* War on Terror
# Internet Age
*[2003-2010] __The Social Network__:* The Internet Age
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This is a list of 300 historical movies listed in chronological order, from prehistoric times to 1901. Many of the dates are approximate.