Key: no marker = free; one $ = zero to five dollars; two $$ = six to twenty dollars; three $$$ = over twenty dollars.  (Note: movies direct to Amazon for ease of use, but may also be found on Netflix or various TV channels.)

Historical Date – Title – Author – date published – website availability – rating

 

$$  1775, John Adams, 2008 HBO series starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, www.amazon.com. Rated TV-14.

$$  1776, 1776, Broadway musical turned movie in 1972, www.amazon.com.

$$  1770s, Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes, 1943 book and 1953 movie of the same name by Disney, www.amazon.com.

1770s, Liberty’s Kids, PBS series about the Revolutionary War, free viewing on www.youtube.com.

1856,  Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, 1883, www.gutenberg.org.

1860s, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Sarah Emma Edmonds, 1865, https://archive.org.

1860s AD, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, 1868, www.literatureproject.com.

1880s,  The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams, 1903, www.gutenberg.org.

1927, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1957 movie starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh, www.amazon.com. Rated PG.

1930s, My Man Godfrey, movie starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, 1936, https://archive.org.  Not rated.

$$  1941, Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970 movie starring Martin Balsam, So Yamamura and others, www.amazon.com.  (Rated G, but parental guidance suggested for war violence and language.)

$$  1970, Apollo 13, 1995 movie starring Tom Hanks and others, www.amazon.com. Rated PG.

$$  1980, Miracle, 2004 movie starring Kurt Russell about the 1980 Olympic hockey team; shows issues surrounding the Cold War; www.amazon.com. Rated PG.