DVDs for Early Modern Times

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  • Sue
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    This may have been discussed before, but I am having trouble finding anything when I search for movies about topics during the Early Modern Times period of history.  I’m hoping a few people here will have recommendations for me.

    We are currently studying Early Modern Times, and dd is 16.  We just finished reading about Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, James I, and others in the book Famous Men of the 16th and 17th Century, so that’s where we’re at in history so far.  I would like to find a few movies to watch occasionally for this time period.  I would love something about those I just mentioned, but I am also particularly interested to see if there are any good movies out there about the early colonies in the U.S. or the Amerian Revolution.

    Although we still love the entertainment and educational value of the animated Peanuts dvd about the Mayflower Voyagers and the first Thanksgiving, I’d like to watch something non-animated and a bit more grown up.  Any suggestions?

    By the way, we don’t have Netflix or cable tv, but we do get a lot of movies from several libraries, one of which is very useful for getting things via interlibrary loan.

    Melanie32
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    I really like A More Perfect Union. While it would probably be hard to find at the library, you could probably find an inexpensive copy online somewhere. Look it up and see what you think.

    If you like, I can loan you my copy through the mail. 🙂

    The Drive Thru history dvds are really good as well. If you have cable, they often play on one of the Christian tv networks. I record them on my DVR.

    Amazing Grace is another good move about the fight to end slavery in Britain. I do think there might be a few mild curse words in this one. It’s been ages since I watched it but it is very well done.

    Someone on this forum recommended a John Adams movie. I can’t remember the name. There’s the version that HBO put out as a miniseries as well. It gets great reviews but has some fairly risqué parts.

    The old Disney version of Johnny Tremaine is good also.

     

     

    Sue
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    Thanks for the great suggestions.  I’m wondering about A More Perfect Union.  If it came out in 2011 and was produced by Brigham Young University, then our county library can get it for me from another library system in our state.  Imagine that….

    Wings2fly
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    Drive Thru History is free online at the TBN tv website.

    Rachel White
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    Can you stream Amazon onto your TV, or would y’all watch on your computer? There’s actually a cord you can get which connects the TV and computer, too, so you can use your TV screen.

    There are movies to rent from Amazon is why I ask.

    Sue
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    I’m not sure about watching Amazon movies on our tv.  The computer is in another room (it’s not a laptop), so it would have to be a pretty long cord.  I think it might be cheaper and easier to just get cable as part of a phone-internet-tv bundle.  But I’ve been putting off cable for so long, I would need to replace the activity of saying no with another hobby, LOL.

    Rachel White
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    Cable doesn’t offer those good, older movies anyway, so I don’t know that Cable/Satellite is an option.

    By getting DVD’s thru the library, watching movies from Amazon you’ll have access to a wider variety of movies to choose from.

    Have you looked into Roku? That’s what we have. The machine is a one-time purchase and then you decide to either get Amazon Prime for a yearly cost or just rent as you go. You can get PBS material for free (just one day later than original airing). You can  decide to get Netflix or not, Streaming only or with the DVD option (so streaming + one DVD at a time for one monthly price).

    News outlets have free streaming material from their sites, too.

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