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Film Series:

Personalties the 20th Century

Six films dealing with Personalities of the Twentieth Century will be presented during the semester. Attendance or proof of viewing (rental receipt) and a one-to-two-page review essay will be worth 20 points per movie. One of the films can be dropped. Students can accumulate up to 100 points. Since one of the six film viewings and reveiews will be dropped, no film late review will be accepted.

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 

Web Sources:

• Secondary Sources
• T. E. Lawrence:  A Biographical Summary
• Who's Who:  T.E. Lawrence
• Primary Sources
• The Husain-McMahon Letters (excerpts)
• Personal Notes on the Sherifial Family

by T.E. Lawrence
• The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
• 22 August, 1920:  A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence
• The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 15 & 16 May, 1916

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STALIN 

Web Sources:

• Secondary Sources:
• The Soviet Union in the 1930's
• Gudrun Persson, "And they all confessed ... " An Account and Analysis of the Soviet Purges.
• Primary Sources:
• Soviet Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges 
• Indictment in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)
• Prosecution Argument in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)
• Verdict in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)
• N.I. Bukharin's Last Plea before the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., 12 March 1938
• Hymn to Stalin
• Trotsky, "Stalinism and Bolshevism" (1937)
• Sources on Soviet Intellectual Policy

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MANDELA AND DE KLERK 

Web Sources:

• Secondary Sources:
• The Retreat From Empire I (From Raymond F. Betts, Europe in Retrospect )
• The Retreat From Empire II (From Raymond F. Betts, Europe in Retrospect )
• Specialized Secondary Sources:
• Background Notes on Selected African Countries
• Primary Sources:
• South Africa's Nuremberg Laws
• Old Shapes in New Rags: Instruments of Apartheid Rule 
• Oliver Tambo, "Racial Problems in Africa" (1961)
• Oliver Tambo, "Apartheid - the Indictment" (1964)
• Oliver Tambo, "Nelson Mandela in 1965"
• Oliver Tambo, "Whites in a Changing South Africa" (1989)

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KUNDUN 

Web Sources:

• Secondary Sources
• The Young Dalai Lama
• The Dalai Lama Escapes into Exile
• The 14th Dali Lama--A Biography
• Primary Sources
• Seventeen-Point Plan for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet (1951)
• ICJ Report on the Question of Tibet and the Rule of Law (excerpt) (1959)
• ICJ Report on Tibet and China (excerpt) (1960)

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The FILM REVIEW AND RATING

Questions for further exploration:

In one to two pages, give your impressions of the film you saw and answer these questions.

1) What are your impressions of the film?

2) How does the film relate to the primary and secondary sources on the topic?

3) What point of view the film represent? (in other words, what are the film-makers trying to say?)

4) What does it contribute to your understanding of the historyof the Second World War?

Rate the film on a scale of 1 to 10.

• 10=Outstanding
• 9=Very good
• 8=good
• 7=satisfactory
• 6=needs improvement
• 5=bad
• 4=very bad
• 3 and below=awful

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Copy of the Movie Review Form in Microsoft Word

Copy of the Movie Review Form in HTML

E-Mail me your reviews at his_ncp@shsu.edu using the following subject titles:

• Lawrence of Arabia--
• use 369Arab-[your name]
• Stalin--
• use 369Stal-[your name]
• Mandela and DeKlerk--
• use 369Mand-[your name]
• Kundun
• use 369Kund-[your name]

Evaluation Criteria for Each Review Essay   1. Coverage (Are all of the general questions addressed and answered in effective manner? Have you presented your own view as well as those of the film or sources?).-----10 POINTS   2. Content (Are both the film and sources used effectively in writing the review essay? Are opinions substantiated with evidence from the film and/or sources? Are all terms, events, people and other items are adequately defined?).-----20 POINTS   3. Organization and Form (Is your answers composed in a clear and logical manner? Are your points made in a logical sequence manner which enhances your general argument? Have you maintained regular margins, font and form?).-----10 POINTS  4. Writing and Mechanics (Have you written your review in proper English , addressing it to a prospective audience of educated lay people? Have you followed the fundamentals of paragraphing, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation? Have you carefully proofread your review for mechanics, organization, continuity, and transition?).-----10 POINTS copyright 2000 Sam Houston State University.  All rights reserved.