War of 1812 (2012)

Actors: Todd A. Judge (composer), Michael C. Durling (director), William Kaffenberger (actor), Paul D'Elia (actor), Daniel Cross (actor), Andrew Collie (actor), Barry Bedwell (actor), Todd Norris (actor), Ken Johnston (actor), Bill Rose (actor), Phil Schultz (actor), Florin Turner (actor), Gina DeAngelis (writer), Stephen Moore (actor), Joe Ziarko (actor),

Genres: History,

Prince Among Slaves (2007)

Actors: Bill Duke (director), Mos Def (actor), Joseph Vitarelli (composer), John C. Bailey (actor), Andrea Kalin (writer), Andrea Kalin (director), Andrea Kalin (producer), Dannyelle Bryant (miscellaneous crew), Michael Wolfe (producer), David Grossbach (editor), Gordon Timothy (actor), Alexander Kronemer (producer), Elliot Levitt (miscellaneous crew), Morteza Tavakoli (actor), Marcus Mitchell (actor),

Plot: In 1788 the slave ship Africa, set sail from West Africa and headed for America with its berth laden with a profitable but highly perishable cargo-hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Six months later the survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them, a 26-year-old man named Abdul-Rahman made a remarkable claim to the farmer who purchased him at the auction that he was an African prince and that his father would pay gold for his ransom. The offer was refused and Abdul-Rahman did not return to Africa for another 40 years. During his enslavement he toiled on the Foster plantation, married, and fathered nine children. His story also eventually made him the most famous African in America, attracting the support of powerful men such as President John Quincy Adams. After forty years of slavery, Abdul-Rahman finally reclaimed his freedom, but he defied the order to return immediately to Africa, and instead traveled throughout the northern states, speaking to huge audiences in a partially successful attempt to raise enough money to buy his children's freedom. Finally at the age of 67, and after raising funds to free two of his children, Abdul-Rahman returned to Africa, only to fall ill and die just as word of his arrival reached his former home of Futa Jalloo in present-day Guinea. Abdul-Rahman survived the harsh ordeals of slavery through his love of family and his deep faith as a Muslim.

Keywords: african-american, prince, slavery
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: The True Story of an African Prince who Survived Slavery in America.

Andrew Jackson (2007)

Actors: Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Steve Taylor (actor), Torrence Hall (miscellaneous crew), Dave Vescio (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Jude S. Walko (actor), Clay Van Sickle (miscellaneous crew), Nito Larioza (actor), Cody Cowell (actor), Russ Kingston (actor), Kris Edwards (actor), Neil Delama (actor), Cory Knauf (actor), Rachel Riley (actress), Rachel Riley (actress),

Plot: Through interviews, visits to historical locations and vivid reenactments, this History Channel production details the life of Andrew Jackson. It illuminates his early years as well as his accomplishments as President of the United States. Instead of avoiding the controversy that surrounds him, the show pointedly investigates why this man is a hero to some and a great villain to others.

Keywords: anti-republican, atrocity, bigamy, biography-filmmaking, democrat, nazi-reference, skewed-history, war-reenactment
Genres: Drama,

The Adams Chronicles (1976)

Actors: William Daniels (actor), Jeffrey Jones (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Lionel Chetwynd (writer), Paul Bogart (director), Nancy Marchand (actress), Paul Bogart (producer), Jac Venza (producer), David Birney (actor), Wesley Addy (actor), Kathryn Walker (actress), George Hearn (actor), Fred Coe (director), Jean-Pierre Stewart (actor), Katharine Houghton (actress),

Plot: Ambitious multipart PBS production that brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families. It traces their lives from John Adams early years as a colonial Boston attorney to the rise in prominence of Brookes Adams in the fields of political and social philosophy. This mini looks into their triumphs and tragedies, exploring their genius and profound social conscience.

Keywords: ambassador, american-history, american-revolution, character-name-in-title, court-of-saint-james, declaration-of-independence, diplomat, future-president, historian, james-monroe
Genres: Drama, History,

Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed (1968)

Actors: Lionel Barrymore (actor), Spencer Tracy (actor), Stepin Fetchit (actor), Stepin Fetchit (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), George Siegmann (actor), Walter Long (actor), Walter Long (actor), Sidney Poitier (actor), Sidney Poitier (actor), Roy Glenn (actor), Bill Cosby (actor), Roy Glenn (actor), George Siegmann (actor), Spencer Tracy (actor),

Genres: Documentary,

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

Actors: Frank Ferguson (actor), Blake Edwards (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), John Dilson (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Edward Fielding (actor),

Plot: Among those who are fighting to have Congress re-establish the military academy at West Point in the beginning of the nineteenth century is a young Washington socialite, Carolyn Bainbridge. Congress resolves to revive the Academy on a one-year trial basis. Major Sam Carter, a martinet who doesn't believe a college can produce real fighting men, is made the Commandant, and determines to make soldiers - or failures - out of the small band of cadets, by enforcing stringent disciplinary action. Among the cadets are Howard Shelton, Carolyn's fiancée, and Dawson, a Kentucky frontiersman. There is bad blood between the two from the start, and matters are worsened when Dawson falls in love with Carolyn. Many of the cadets resign, under the discouraging conditions and grueling punishment that is part of Carter's plan to make the school hard and the exercises difficult, and the number of cadets left is down to ten. Word arrives that the Indian chief Tecumseh has gone on the warpath, and Carter is ordered to take part in quelling the rebellion, and to include the cadets along with the regular Bombadiers. Shelton, on patrol, is shot at by an Indian, and hot-headedly leaves his post in pursuit. Dawson leaves to bring him back followed by Major Carter who is captured by the Indians. Using tactics learned at West Point, the small band of cadets attack and demoralize the much larger Indian force, and succeed in rescuing Carter, and Dawson is wounded. Carter is grateful for the actions taken by the band, but says that Shelton and Dawson cannot remain as cadets since they had violated the rules by leaving their posts, and would be a bad precedent for future cadets. Carolyn has come to the Point to marry the unsuspecting Dawson, who thought she loved Shelton.

Keywords: kicked-in-the-butt, number-in-title, u.s.-military-academy, west-point
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Carolyn Bainbridge: Mr. Scully, How long will the cadets be finish?::Sgt. Scully: Say what going on here [looking at the picnic]::Mrs. Thompson: Keep your dirty paws off that::Carolyn Bainbridge: We're waiting for the cadets Mr Scully don't you think they drill enough::Sgt. Scully: Oh your waiting for the cadets::Carolyn Bainbridge: Yes you see it Mr. Shelton's birthday and this is little surprise::Sgt. Scully: O'Toole you take these two ladies to the major::Mrs. Thompson: [why they try to take them away] You just try and you get a surprise yourself::Carolyn Bainbridge: Keep your hands off me you going to wish you were never born when I get through with you.

Overland with Kit Carson (1939)

Actors: Robert Fiske (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), James Craig (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Eddie Foster (actor),

Plot: Western settlers are being driven off their homesteads and ranches by a combination of Indian raids and attacks by bands of mysterious outlaws. The government sends out famed Indian scout Kit Carson and army officer David Brent to investigate, and Carson discovers that a villain named Pegleg controls an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders, and is using them and the Indians to drive out the settlers so he can establish his own empire. He determines to set a trap to expose the identity of Pegleg while avoiding traps and ambushes that Pegleg is setting for him.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, serial
Genres: Western,
Taglines: MEET THE BRAVEST INDIAN FIGHTER WHO EVER BLAZED A TRAIL FOR OLD GLORY! (original print media ad - all caps) Thrill to Champ Jr. Cowboy BOBBY CLACK! Smashing the Wild West's most desperate bandits in the year's most exciting chapter play!

The Monroe Doctrine (1939)

Actors: Tom Chatterton (actor), Michael Visaroff (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor), Frank Puglia (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), George Reeves (actor), John Harron (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Frank Mayo (actor), Grant Mitchell (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor),

Plot: This two-reel short tells the tale of the effects of the Monroe Document in a historical and historical-fictional manner, and its effects---fact and fictional---in North and South America...and Europe and,how through the years, various U.S. Presidents have upheld it in various ways. The ending has Theodore Roosevelt delivering a speech that probably left the viewing audiences, in various countries, talking about it in various languages.

Keywords: ambassador, anti-fascism, austria, britain, canada, character-name-in-title, colonization, cuba, czar, declaration-of-independence
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, Short, War,

Quotes:

Senor De La Torre: What makes you so sure the United States would resort to war? people don't want it, and in a democracy people rule. So I've been told.

Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly but carry a big stick!

The Little Colonel (1935)

Actors: William Burress (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Vester Pegg (actor), Stephen Chase (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Martin Faust (actor), C.E. Anderson (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Arthur Stuart Hull (actor), John Ince (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Paul McVey (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor), Harry Strang (actor),

Plot: After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.

Keywords: 1870s, 1880s, 19th-century, african-american, american-civil-war, applause, army, arrest, baptism, based-on-novel
Genres: Comedy, Family,
Taglines: Hail to the conquerer of ten million hearts.

Quotes:

Miss Lloyd Sherman: [to a picture of her grandfather] You're a bad man to make my mama cry!

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Will you tell me a pink story?::Becky Porter: If you ain't the beatinest child I ever seen. When you want to hear a blue story, everything in it has got to be blue. And when you want to hear a green story, everything in it has got to be green. [laughs] Now, I could tell you a *black* story 'bout my first husband...

Col. Lloyd: What under the sun's goin' on here? What are you doing?::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Hello, Grandfather! We were just baptizing Henry Clay.::Col. Lloyd: Baptizing Henry Clay?::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, and he must be *awful* bad, because it took two dunks to save him!

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Grandfather, do you know any blue stories?::Col. Lloyd: [surprised] Blue stories? Well, I do... a few.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Tell me one.::Col. Lloyd: I don't know any that I can tell *you.*

Col. Lloyd: Confound you, Walker! Watch what you're doing!::Walker: I'm sorry, sir.::Col. Lloyd: If you'd broken that, I'd have broken your head.::Walker: Yes, sir.::Dr. Scott: Someday your temper is going to split you wide open.::Col. Lloyd: Well, I won't call for you to sew me up!

Col. Lloyd: What are you doing here?::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Wait, Jack, let me tell him! Father, this is the man I'm going to marry. I knew you would never give your consent, so that's why we were going to elope.::Jack Sherman: I wanted to come to you, sir, and ask your permission, but?::Col. Lloyd: Silence! Why did you assume that I would object to an honorable marriage?::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I know how you feel about the South.::Col. Lloyd: I hate all Yankees.::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: That's why we didn't come and tell you.::Col. Lloyd: Then you knew you were doing wrong! How can you marry a man who represents everything that a true Southerner should hate? A man who fought against your father, your brother, and all your kinfolk. For all you know, he may have fired the shot that killed your brother!::Jack Sherman: I was in the war, sir, and though I fought on the other side, the South has always had my admiration and respect. My mother was a Virginian. But might I remind you, sir, that the war has been over for some time.::Col. Lloyd: The war will never be over for me and mine, sir. I want to kill you. I don't know but what I will. Elizabeth, go to your room.::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: No.::Col. Lloyd: Go to your room, I tell you!::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I'm going with Jack!::Col. Lloyd: Elizabeth, when that door closes, it will never open for you again!

Col. Lloyd: Let's get back to this game. These men are yours. Now, I'll be the Confederacy, and you'll be the Union.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Oh, goody, goody, goody! I got the winning side already.::Col. Lloyd: Oh, no, you haven't! I'll show you!::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Maybe you'd like to be the North, and I'll be the South?

Col. Lloyd: Oh, stop chattering, Walker!::Walker: Yes, sir.::Col. Lloyd: I don't want to hear all this gossip.::Walker: No, sir. I was going to tell you about the cottage, sir, but I suspect you're not interested.::Col. Lloyd: The cottage?::Walker: Yes, sir. Someone's moved into it.::Col. Lloyd: Walker! Confound you, why don't you let me know when things are going on around here? Who's moving into the cottage?::Walker: I don't know, sir.::Col. Lloyd: It's been empty a long time now, ever since - well, maybe I'd better call on our new neighbors and see what kind of folks they are.::Walker: Yes, sir. Having some new neighbors won't make it so lonely 'round here.::Col. Lloyd: Who says it's lonely 'round here?::Walker: Not me, no sir!::Col. Lloyd: Anyway, I like it lonely!

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mother, who was that?::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Your grandfather.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why didn't he come in?::Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: He didn't want to.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Did he make you cry?

Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, why doesn't my grandfather want to come in and see my mother?::Becky Porter: Well, he mighty mad at she, and I guess she mad at he.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why?::Becky Porter: Your grandfather get mad when your mama marry your daddy.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: But he's her papa, isn't he?::Becky Porter: Sure 'nough.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: Aren't papas supposed to love their little girls?::Becky Porter: Yes, honey, they should.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: It seems might funny to me.::Becky Porter: It's 'cause all the Lloyds are stubborn. The old colonel is, your mama is, and you is.::Miss Lloyd Sherman: I'm not stubborn! Don't you call me that!::Becky Porter: Don't you stomp your foot at me. That don't change it, that just proves it.