Depends on Mac's taste in movies. From 8:00 p.m. Friday until 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, Turner Classic Movies is doing its regular Memorial Day war movie festival. They're going to show some of the movies mentioned above.
Some old movies provide great windows into the eras in which they were made. Casablanca could be a great springboard into WWII.
On ancient civilizations, the Taylor-Burton Cleopatra is great spectacle but crap history.
For TV, how about You Are There. I vaguely remember seeing reruns of a few episodes as a kid, and it may be as good as you can get in a half hour. Basically, it's historical recreations of events in history, with a reporter present to interview the principals and acts as Captain Exposition. Fairly U.S. centric, but a lot of episodes cover non-U.S. events (Hitler Invades Poland, The Death of Socrates).
I haven't seen it yet, but The Long Walk to Freedom is about Nelson Mandela (and stars Idris Elba). It's PG-13. [link]
All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic WWI movie, but might be a bit intense. [link]
My parents had recordings (audio only) of the You Are There broadcasts and I remember listening to them and being fascinated. Of course, I enjoyed history ... so Mac may not.
I can ask the history buffs downstairs. We have a whole shelf of WWI movies, let alone the other war films.
My problem employee tried to convince the rest of us today that
Pearl Harbor
was a GREAT movie.
(also, I approve of the thread title)
OK, this is awesome:
[link]
Yeah, that was awesome. I wish.
Jupiter seems to spend most of her movie ascending to the "rescue me" tower.
She rescued herself at one point.
From a petulant Eddie Radmayne while he was wearing a caftan that did more than half of the work of fighting him.
