Historical Movies in Chronological Order

Time Periods
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    ANCIENT HUMANS

    1. ANCIENT HUMANS – hominids and man some 4 million years old; dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago

    EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

    1. EGYPT – Nile River Valley
    2. CHINA – Yellow River Valley
    3. INDIA – Indus River Valley
    4. IRAQ – Tigris-Euphrates River Valley
    Babylon
    The Bible – Old Testament

    LATER CIVILIZATIONS

    1. GREEK CIVILIZATION
     • Mycenaean Period (1600 BC-1100 BC)
     • Persian-Greek Wars
     • Age of Pericles (448 BC-429 BC)
     • Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes
     • Alexander the Great (336 BC-323 BC)
    2. ROMAN CIVILIZATION
     • Foundation of a Roman Republic
     • Foundation of the Roman Empire
     • Rise of Christianity
     • Fall of the Roman Empire (180-476)
    3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476-1453)
    4. RISE OF ISLAM (and Spanish Reconquista)

    MEDIEVAL AGES

    1. EUROPE
     • England, Scotland, Ireland
     • Scandinavia
     • France to Age of Discovery
     • Italy and Germany
     • Russia
     • Poland
     • Romania
     • Bulgaria
     • Serbia (& others)
     • Turkey
     • Hungary
    2. CHINA & MONGOLIA
    3. INDIA (711-1526)
    4. JAPAN (711-1526)

    REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH

    1. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1782)
    2. FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789)
    3. AGE OF NAPOLEON
    4. EARLY YEARS OF USA & CANADA
    5. VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO WWI
    6. FRANCE
    7. CRIMEAN WAR
    8. ITALY (1789-1878)
    9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
     • Prequel
     • Bloody Kansas
     • Civil War Begins and Ends
    10. SIAM & BURMA (Nowadays Thailand & Myanmar)
     • Burma
     • Thailand
    11. POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD (USA & OTHERS)
     • USA: Reconstrucion & Separate but equal
     • USA: Cowboys
     • Australia
     • Canada
     • Others
    12. INDIANS
     • Comanche and Cheyenne
     • Custer and the Sioux
     • Apache
     • Other
     • Canada
     • Argentina
    13. MEXICO UNDER JUAREZ (1858-1872)
    14. FRANCE
     • Third French Republic (1870-1940)
     • French Art Scene (Birth of modern art)
    15. RUSSIA AND TURKEY
     • Alexander II (1855-1881)
     • Others
    16. WORKERS’ STRUGGLE
    17. RACE TO THE POLES (North and South)

    AGE OF IMPERIALISM

    1. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
     • USA
     • Philippines
     • Hawaii
     • Other events
    2. AFRICA
    3. BRITISH PERIOD OF INDIA (1757-1947)
    4. CHINA & FRENCH INDO-CHINA
    5. JAPAN
    6. KOREA

    PRE-WORLD WAR I PERIOD

    1. ITALY
    2. USA
    3. MEXICAN REVOLUTION (1910-1920)
    4. GERMANY, AUSTRIA & OTHERS
     • Germany
     • Austria
     • Hungary
     • Other

    WORLD WAR II

    1. THE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY
     • Germany
     • Naval Warfare
     • Germans Kicked out of Africa
     • Allied Invasion of Italy
     • Russian Front
     • Allied Invasion of France
     • German Counter-Attack (Battle of the Bulge)
     • Air War
     • Others
     • Hitler’s Last Days
     • Italy’s Last Days of Fascism
     • Holocaust
    2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN
     • The War in China and Burma
     • The USA finally gets into the war
     • The USA strikes back

    POST-WAR PERIOD

    1. JAPAN
    2. CHINA
     • Communist Rule (1949-today)
     • Taiwan
     • Tibet
     • Korea
    3. PHILIPPINES
    4. ENGLAND
    5. GERMANY
     • West Germany
     • East Germany
     • Austria
    6. ITALY
    7. FRANCE
    8. GREECE & MACEDONIA
    9. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
    10. SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
    11. INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA (1947)
    12. INDEPENDENCE FOR ALGERIA (1962)

    THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (I)

    1. USA: LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR
     • The Korean War
     • McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklists
     • Other
    2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL

    THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

    1. USA
     • JFK (1961-1963)
    2. NORTHERN IRELAND
    3. GREAT BRITAIN
    4. SOUTH AFRICA
    5. CANADA
    6. AUSTRALIA
    7. SPAIN
    8. GAY RIGHTS

    USA (70’s-TODAY)

    1. NIXON & THE 70’s
    2. POST-WAR VIETNAM
    3. RONALD REAGAN (1981-1989)
    4. GEORGE BUSH I (1989-1993)
    5. BILL CLINTON (1993-2000)
    6. GEORGE BUSH II (2001-2009)

    REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC

    1. HUNGARY
    2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
    3. POLAND
    4. ROMANIA, BULGARIA & OTHERS

    YUGOSLAV WARS

    1. YUGOSLAV WARS

    TROUBLES IN AFRICA

    1. TROUBLES IN AFRICA

    AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM

    1. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
    2. EGYPT
    3. SYRIA, TURKEY AND LEBANON
    4. AFGHANISTAN
    5. IRAN AND IRAQ
     • Iran
     • Iraq
    6. OTHERS