History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past /
Toplin, Robert Brent,1940-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up" -- JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition" -- Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty" -- Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service and the military" -- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort" -- Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test" -- All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember" -- Norma Rae : "a female rocky".
Historical films
Motion pictures and history.