Birth of a Nation
The 19th‑century U.S. conflict and Reconstruction era portrayed in D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic.
What is the Civil War?
On the factory assembly line, the Little Tramp is in charge of this part of the assembly process.
What are fastening bolts?
Jim befriends troubled Judy and this lonely teen in Rebel Without a Cause.
Who is John "Plato" Crawford?
The main character believes the recorded conversation may lead to a violent crime, causing him to replay and analyze the same audio repeatedly throughout the film. This reflects a growing fear of what type of activity in American society?
What is government and private surveillance?
This iconic 1980's song by Kenny Loggins plays over the intro to Top Gun which shows many jets taking off an landing from an aircraft carrier.
What is Danger Zone?
Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing Andrew Beckett, a lawyer fired from his firm after colleagues discover he has this disease.
What is AIDS?
Historians criticize the film's sympathetic depiction of this white supremacist organization, which led to its revival.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
After he foils a jailbreak, authorities reward the Little Tramp with a comfortable one of these before eventually pardoning him.
What is a jail cell?
The post-war economic boom and increased technology led to the emergence of this new social group characterized by access to cars and few responsibilities.
What are teenagers?
This 1970s political scandal by President Nixon spying on his opponents caused a fear of surveillance and distrust in the government.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Top Gun was inspired by a magazine article about an elite U.S. Navy fighter weapons school located in this seaside US city.
What is San Diego?
When Philadelphia premiered, the world was entering a decade that saw the collapse of the Soviet Union, the birth of the Internet and tragedies like the Bosnian genocide and Los Angeles riots. Identify the decade.
What are the 1990s?
This man was the President during the Civil War and his assassination was depicted in "Birth of a Nation".
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
An experimental contraption tries to put food in the Little Tramp automatically so he doesn't have to stop working, but it goes haywire on him.
What is the feeding machine?
One scene in the movie involved two characters driving towards a cliff and attempting to jump out at the last second. What is this game called?
What is a "chicken run"?
This term refers to the fear that people are watching you or conspiring against you, which Harry Caul has because of his profession.
What is paranoia?
Tom Cruise plays this cocky naval aviator who flies off the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise with his RIO, Goose.
Who is Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell?
This is the term for when a boss fires someone for an illegal reason such as race, gender, religion, medical status, or sexuality.
What is employment discrimination?
This government decree freed all of the slaves in the rebelling southern states and paved the way for later freeing of all enslaved peoples.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Modern Times portrays unemployment, poverty and hunger during this 1930s economic crisis, the longest downturn in U.S. history.
What is the Great Depression?
The film premiered in 1955, a decade marked by a booming post‑war economy, the dawn of the Cold War and the rise of this movement for racial equality.
What is the civil rights movement?
This war in the 1970s was very controversial and unpopular, further leading to American distrust in the motives and actions of their government leaders.
What is the Vietnam War?
In an early dogfight, Maverick flips his jet upside down and boasts that he 'communicated' with the enemy MiG pilot by doing this rude gesture.
What is giving him the bird (flipping the finger)?
The film calls attention to this U.S. law prohibiting employers from firing people because of an illness, including AIDS.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Civil‑rights activist William Monroe Trotter and the NAACP organized protests against the film in 1915 in this New England city.
What is Boston?
The Great Depression persisted until U.S. factories expanded production for this global conflict, which finally ended the economic downturn.
What is World War II?
The film is considered one of the finest movies about this social problem, capturing the angst and rebellion of 1950s youth.
What is juvenile delinquency?
This main phrase in the movie is repeated over and over again from the recording as Harry Caul attempts to interpret what the conversation is about.
What is "He'd kill us if he got the chance."
Top Gun premiered during a decade marked by conservative politics, Reaganomics and an epidemic that ravaged the gay male community. Name the decade this movie is from.
What is the 1980s?
The courtroom scenes highlight how prejudice against gay Americans combined with fear of disease, showing how multiple forms of discrimination can overlap. This idea is now commonly described using what term?
What is intersectionality?