"Hollywood's American History"  UPJ's 4th Annual FREE History Film Festival Fall 1999 Schedule

"I've had a perfectly  wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it."                   Groucho Marx

YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THE FILM FESTIVAL FEELING THIS WAY!    All Films on Wednesdays, 7 pm, Blackington Hall Room 138, Pitt-Johnstown  Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society--Admission FREE   Hosted by  Dr. Paul Douglas Newman, Assistant Professor of History  Dr. Daniel Santoro, Associate Professor of Sociology   Please click on the Subject titles below for links to hundreds of web-sites pertaining to the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Viet Nam War. Click on movie titles for sites with information about the films. Click on underscored names for relevant sites.   The Great Depression  To remember the 70th anniversary of the 1929 Crash

September 8 Sullivan's Travels     Joel McCrae rides the rails as a Hobo  September 15 A Day at the Races     The Marx Bros. poke fun at the upper crust  September 22 The Wizard of OZ     Centennial of Baum's Classic, + clips from      1925 silent version w/ Oliver Hardy

Civil Rights    To remember the 35th anniversary of "Freedom Summer."

September 29 Amistad     Spielberg's account of the Atlantic Slave Trade  October 6 Ghosts of Mississippi     The assassination of Medgar Evers October 13  Malcolm X     The movement's most controversial figure  October 20 At the River I Stand     Documentary of MLK, Jr.'s life and work

The Viet Nam War    To remember the 35th anniversary of the Tonkin Gulf Incident and Resolution that escalated American "advisement" into combat.  We will view a trilogy of films made by Viet Nam War War veteran Oliver Stone.

October 27 The Green Berets     The Duke stars in this positive view of the war  November 3 Platoon     Stone's contrasting image of the war's meaning  November 10  Heaven and Earth     The War through the eyes of a Viet woman  November 17 Born on the 4th of July     Ron Kovic's story of service and protest

  Each Film Introduced With a Brief Historical Discussion by Profs Newman & Santoro No Registration necessary--you may attend one or all of the films.   FOR MORE INFO CALL 814-269-2987--Newman 814-269-2976--Santoro   Visit the Festival's Homepage at: www.pitt.edu/~pnewman/hah.html Page created and maintained by Paul Douglas Newman