Historical Films
Woodrow Wilson possibly said that this 1915 D.W. Griffith film "is like writing history with lightning" after it was the first movie to be screened in the White House.
What is (The) Birth of a Nation?
Suetonius recounted this emperor playing his lyre as the city of Rome burned.
Who is Nero?
This city-state on an island once led by Lee Kuan Yew was expelled from Malaysia in 1965.
What is Singapore?
The nickname of French monarch Louis XIV is added to the title of Romulus and Tarquin the Proud.
What is the Sun King of Rome?
This man's incompetence and failures such as his loss at Bouvines resulted in his disgruntled barons forcing him to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
Who is John? Accept the attached epithets of Lackland and Softsword.
This Orson Welles film, whose main character is based off of William Randolph Hearst, begins with the mysterious word "Rosebud." It is widely considered to be the greatest film of all time.
What is Citizen Kane?
The Book of Daniel records God putting a curse of madness on this Babylonian king for becoming too proud.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar (II)?
This period names both a time when the Korean peninsula was divided into Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla as well as a romanticized period in Chinese history following the Han Dynasty's collapse.
What is the Three Kingdoms Period?
A rabid abolitionist and perpetrator of the massacre at Pottawattamie as well as the raid on Harpers' Ferry is resurrected to argue in a certain landmark Supreme Court case that resulted in the desegregation of public schools.
What is John Brown v. Board of Education?
A prominent Holy Roman Emperor was this man, nicknamed for his red beard, whose exploits included battling the Lombard League in northern Italy and drowning in a river on the way back from the Third Crusade.
Who is Frederick I Barbarossa?
This WW2 film depicts Desmond Doss saving dozens of lives while not compromising his moral code to not use a weapon during the Battle of Okinawa.
What is Hacksaw Ridge?
Some scholars believe that this King of England suffered from the mental illness porphyria during the second part of his reign during the premierships of men like Pitt the Younger.
Who is George III?
This Venetian explorer and visitor to Mongol-controlled China names a bridge where a clash began the First Sino-Japanese War.
Who is Marco Polo?
The Norse discoverer of Greenland and father of Leif becomes the German WW1 flying ace Manfred von Richthofen.
Who is Eric the Red Baron?
This King of Mali went on a hajj to Mecca during which he gave away so much gold that he significantly deflated its value for years to come.
Who is Mansa Musa?
A big-time classic is this 1942 film following the French resistance movement in the namesake Moroccan city.
What is Casablanca?
One of the worst Roman emperors was this child ruler of the Severan dynasty who once held a bizarre wedding ceremony of a rock symbolizing the sun god and a statue of Minerva.
Who is Elagabalus?
The greatest devastation of this city, which was the only one that the Tokugawa shogunate had allowed European traders to enter, was with the dropping of Fat Man in 1945.
What is Nagasaki?
A symbol that the Nazis forced the Jews to wear to identify themselves that later became part of the Israeli flag is affixed to the shirt of the British Prime Minister during WW1 and the subsequent peace negotiations at Versailles.
What is the Star of David Lloyd George?
The man to revive the mantle of Holy Roman Emperor after Charlemagne was this man, who was crowned by Pope John XII for his victory over the Magyars at Lechfeld.
Who is Otto the Great?
The 1995 movie Braveheart starring Mel Gibson as Scottish hero William Wallace committed an error by omitting a bridge from the scene of this famous battle that helped secure Scottish independence from the English.
What is the Battle of Stirling Bridge?
This 19th century King of Bavaria was probably not insane, but was still called the "Mad King" for his spendthrift habit of building extravagant castles.
Who is Ludwig (II)?
The Mandate of Heaven was first claimed by the founder of this Chinese dynasty, which soon collapsed, precipitating the Warring States Period.
What is the Zhou dynasty?
Philip II of Macedon's alliance of Greek city-states named for a city on a certain isthmus turns into the ineffectual international organization following WW1 that failed to contain Hitler and Mussolini and preceded the UN.
What is the Corinthian League of Nations?
This King of Denmark, who introduced Christianity to his land as commemorated by the Jelling Runestones, was the inspiration for the name of a technology that allows for transmission of, say, songs from a smartphone to a car's sound system.
Who is Harald Bluetooth?