Summer Viewing...

With all of the blockbuster films released over the next few months, here are some suggested fillers for your consideration. As always, feel free to comment to our ever-expanding lists.

1. Gods and Generals
2. The Crossing
3. Ken Burns' The Civil War
4. Other Florentine Documentaries: Mark Twain, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, BASEBALL...
5. Band of Brothers
6. John Adams
7. Liberty: The American Revolution
8. Rescue Dawn
9. American Outlaws
10. No Intelligence Allowed

While the last documentary on this list fails to remain objective, I do think it raises valid arguments. The Crossing is a lesser known A&E movie about Washington's Crossing of the Delaware. American Outlaws does not follow history by the letter and is here solely for entertainment purposes. Its simply a fun movie. (This film demonstrates well the truth that truth truly is stranger than fiction...for example, Jesse James' mother did not die when a bomb was planted to kill him-it blew her arm off but when the director tried to portray the incident in American Outlaws, it simply was too unbelievable/silly so the script was changed.) HBO's Band of Brothers is definitely NOT family viewing but it does give what is probably the most honest portrayal of its subject. John Adams is also a worthwhile HBO production and can be viewed by a larger audience. John Adams is adapted from 2002's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the same name by historian David McCullough. Let's hope they undertake 1776!

And now for this week's Picture of the Week...