Frank Lloyd, Mutiny on the Bounty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1935

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 8, 1935.
• Running time: 132 minutes.
• Tagline: Mutiny! Maidens! South Sea Love!
• Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin (MGM) won the 1936 Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty poster

Lewis Milestone, Mutiny on the Bounty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 8, 1962.
• Running time: 178 minutes.
• Tagline: The greatest adventure ever lived becomes the greatest adventure ever filmed!

• Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
• Mutiny on the Bounty poster

Ken Burns, Mark Twain, PBS, 2001

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 2001.
• Running time: 212 minutes (2 parts).
• Narrated by Keith David.

• Mark Twain (2001)
• PBS: Mark Twain

Stuart Rosenberg, The Amityville Horror, American International Pictures, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 27, 1979.
• Running time: 117 minutes.
• Tagline: “For God’s Sake, Get Out!”

• The Amityville Horror (1979)

Ken Burns, Thomas Jefferson, PBS, 1997

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 1997.
• Running time: 180 minutes.
• Narrated by Ossie Davis.

• Thomas Jefferson (1997)
• PBS: Thomas Jefferson

Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, PBS, 2009

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: September 27, 2009.
• Running time: 12 hours (6 episodes of 2 hours each).
• Narrated by Peter Coyote.
• Episodes:
  1. “The Scripture of Nature” (1851–1890)
  2. “The Last Refuge” (1890–1915)
  3. “The Empire of Grandeur” (1915–1919)
  4. “Going Home” (1920–1933)
  5. “Great Nature” (1933–1945)
  6. “The Morning of Creation” (1946–1980)

• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009)
• PBS: The National Parks

Ken Burns, The Statue of Liberty, PBS, 1985

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: October 28, 1985.
• Running time: 60 minutes.
• Narrated by historian David McCullough.

• The Statue of Liberty (1985)
• PBS: The Statue of Liberty

Ken Burns, The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God, PBS, 1984

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: 1984.
• Running time: 58 minutes.
• Narrated by David McCullough.

• The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)
• PBS: The Shakers

Ken Burns, Brooklyn Bridge, PBS, 1981

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: November, 1981.
• Running time: 58 minutes.
• Ken Burns’s first film.
• Narrated by David McCullough.
• Chronicles the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.

• Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
• PBS: Brooklyn Bridge

John Sturges, The Great Escape, United Artists, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 4, 1963.
• Running time: 172 minutes.
• Tagline: put a fence in front of these men… and they’ll climb it…

• The Great Escape (1963)

American Eats, History Channel, 2006

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: June 29, 2006 – November 23, 2006 (15 episodes).
• Running time: 50 minutes each.
• Each episode details the particular foods’ origins, key innovators, history, and evolution into modern cuisine. The series is subtitled “The Food That Built America” due to its reverence for food’s place in American history and its impact on culture.
• Episodes Listing:

1. Soda
2. Salty Snacks
3. Hotdogs
4. Canned Foods
5. History on a Bun
6. Ice Cream
7. Cookies
8. Chocolate
9. Condiments
10. Barbecue
11. Beer
12. Cereal: History in a Bowl
13. Pizza
14. Holiday Foods
15. More American Eats

• American Eats (2006)

Michael Wood, The Story of India, BBC, 2007

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: August and September 2007 (UK).
• Running time: Six episodes of ~55 minutes each.
• Episodes:
  1. Beginnings
  2. The Power of Ideas
  3. Spice Routes and Silk Roads
  4. Ages of Gold
  5. The Meeting of Two Oceans
  6. Freedom and Liberation

• The Story of India (2007)
• PBS: The Story of India
• BBC: The Story of India
• The Hindu: An interview with Michael Wood

Herbert Wise, Julius Caesar, BBC, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: February 11, 1979 (UK).
• Running time: 161 minutes.

• Julius Caesar (1979)

Engineering an Empire, The History Channel, 2005-2006

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: September 13, 2005 – January 8, 2006.
• Running time: 44 minutes each.
• Explores the engineering feats that made some of the greatest societies on earth possible.
• Hosted by Peter Weller.
• Episode list:
  1. Rome
  2. Egypt
  3. Greece
  4. Greece: Age of Alexander
  5. The Aztecs
  6. Carthage
  7. The Maya: Death Empire
  8. Russia
  9. Britain: Blood and Steel
  10. The Persians
  11. China
  12. Napoleon: Steel Monster
  13. The Byzantines
  14. Da Vinci’s World

• The History Channel: Engineering an Empire

Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English, ITV, 2002

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• This television series on the history of the English Language was first released in the UK in 2002.
• Running time: 45 – 52 minutes per episode.
• Melvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world.
• Episode Listing:

1. 1. Birth of a Language: The language’s humble beginning; how successive invasions introduced and then threatened to destroy the language.
   2. English Goes Underground: English during the Norman Conquest; how the language survived and fought back; Chaucer.
   3. The Battle for the Language of the Bible: The Reformation; printing; Henry VIII.
   4. This Earth, This Realm, This England: Queen Elizabeth I; foreign trade; scholarship in Latin; Shakespeare.
   5. English in America: The language of America; influences of immigrants, slaves, and modern vernacular.
   6. Speaking Proper: The Age of Reason; British Civil War; self-appointed authorities; science; dictionaries; the Industrial Age.
   7. The Language of Empire: The language spreads and evolves via British interests abroad.
   8. Many Tongues Called English, One World Language: Esperanto is invented with a dream of providing an artificial second-language for all people worldwide; English becomes history’s most successful global language.

• The Adventure of English (2002)
• The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg