A038: The Artist (2011) & Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
We use these fictional stories to highlight Hollywood’s transition from the Silent Era to...
01:12:06
A037: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Martin Scorsese’s telling of the real-life murders in the Osage communities of 1920s Oklahoma....
01:15:34
Great look at the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal. We discuss what they got right and wrong and...
01:23:34
A look (though perhaps a boring one) into the lives of American radicals in the 1910s. The post...
01:25:00
The real story of Alvin York isn’t quite what we see in this film led by Gary Cooper’s...
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A033: Jim Thorpe — All-American (1951)
The story of perhaps the greatest athlete of all-time. Thorpe is probably best-known for winning...
01:12:25
Based on the largely fictional novel by E.L. Doctorow, there are a handful of historical...
01:13:12
A031: The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Based very loosely on the real-life Perdicaris Affair of 1904. Teddy Roosevelt takes action to...
01:33:40
A030: The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)
This TV movie follows the Wright Brothers’ attempt to create the world’s first powered flying...
01:09:28
A029: There Will Be Blood (2007)
Oil! Daniel Day Lewis is perfect as the fictional oil man Daniel Plainview who ruthlessly...
01:05:17
A028: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Screenwriter William Goldman refused to let the studios cutdown on his historical accuracy while...
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Happy Halloween! This gloomy tale is set at an off-shore lighthouse in New England near the end...
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We use The Prestige as an excuse to discuss Nikola Tesla and the early days of electricity in the...
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This is a bit oversimplified and fictionalized, but still gives an okay look at the man behind...
01:11:23
A024: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
This HBO original film focuses on the people involved in the political fight over the Black Hills...
01:09:46
A023: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
As the outlaw career of Jesse James was winding down, an eager young criminal named Robert Ford...
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A group of strangers travel through Apache territory on their way from Arizona to New Mexico in...
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A021: The Molly Maguires (1970)
Richard Harris and Sean Connery star in this story of a detective infiltrating a coal union in...
01:04:16
A020b: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
This Coen Brothers anthology is just a fun look at various Old West tropes while all being...
01:14:18
A fictionalized family drama about the O’Leary family whose cow is credited with starting the...
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