Films for American Literature

1492 – 1750:

• The New World -- John Smith and Pocahontas
• Pocahontas -- Disney?
• The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Puritans
• The Crucible -- Arthur Miller and the Puritans

1750 – 1830:

• 1776 -- The Revolutionary War
• The Patriot -- The Revolutionary War (?)
• Amistad -- Slavery (?)
• Sleepy Hollow -- Washington Irving

1830 – 1865:

• The Last of the Mohicans -- James Fenimore Cooper
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Roots -- Slavery (?)
• Beloved -- Toni Morrison and Slavery (?)
• Glory -- The Civil War (?)

1865 – 1914:

• Huck Finn -- Mark Twain
• Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain

1914 – 1945:

• In Love and War -- Ernest Hemingway
• Pearl Harbor -- World War II

1945 – Present:

• JFK
• Nixon
• 13 Days -- The Cuban Missle Crisis (?)