Historical Movies
This movie was adapted from the play by Charles Dickens.
What is A Christmas Carol?
This holiday honored the Roman agricultural god Saturn, and had many traditions, one of which was the role reversal between slave and master.
What is Saturnalia?
The spontaneous event during the Christmas of the first year of the Great War (WWI).
What was the Christmas Truce?
the US winter of 1880-1881 in which as a period of extreme cold and large snowfalls across the central Great Plains region, and was one of the worst winters in US history.
What was the Hard Winter/Long Winter/Snow Winter?
This practice was originally for the pagan holiday of Yule which involved the burning of part of a tree.
What is a Yule Log?
These 4 presidents have played themselves/acted in a movie.
Who are Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Barack Obama?
This holiday signifies the coming of the Three Magi (the Three Wise Men), the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding feast at Cana.
What is the Feast of the Epiphany?
The Birth of this physicist and mathematician.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
The earliest known account of this winter phenomena was recorded on a clay tablet by a scribe of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in 568/567 BC.
What were the Northern Lights?
The Holiday of Kwanzaa employs black, red and green candles, what is the symbolism of one of these colors?
Black = the people themselves
Red = the struggle of blood shed in the past
Green = the earth or the abundance that the future holds
This movie was a historical drama inspired by the events of the Third Servile War.
What is Spartacus (1960)?
This holiday stems from the Maccabean Jewish forces reconquering the Temple in Jerusalem from the Seleukid Dynasty.
What is Hannukkah?
The night attack led by George Washington which helped to re-invigorate the cause of the American Revolution.
What was the crossing of the Delaware River?
A period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region, that lasted from roughly 1300 - 1850 and played a role in many human related historical events.
What was the Little Ice Age?
Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with helping to create and popularize this Christmas practice.
What are Nativity Scenes?
This is an English movie adapted from a Russian book about love and is set during the end of WWI and the Russian Civil War.
What is Dr. Zhivago?
This holiday is celebrated on January 7th by Eastern Orthodox Christians.
What is Christmas?
The Frankish King who was elevated to Emperor of the Romans by the Pope Leo III
Who was Charlemagne?
The battle between Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod and the Teutonic Order over whether the Republic of Novgorod would be Eastern Orthodox of Roman Catholic.
What was the Battle on the Ice/the Battle of Lake Peipus?
This practice is done to imitate the Enlightenment of Buddha.
What is meditation?
This is a take on Charles Dickens’ famous A Christmas Carol in which Michael Caine is Ebeneezer Scrouge?
What is The Muppet Christmas Carol?
The Zorastrian Holiday that commemorates the death of the prophet Zoraster.
What is Zarathosht Diso?
The social movement ending in the execution of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena
What was the Romanian Revolution?
The first individual to record seeing the Arctic.
Who was Pytheas?
This Jewish practice, on the holiday of Hannukkah which victory over cultural assimilation is an excellent example of cultural assimilation
What is the Spinning of the Dreidel?