Month Nine
CIVIL WAR RESOURCES
MUSIC
PLAYS (Consider doing this as a reader's theater.)
MOVIES
For all ages:
For all ages:
- Davy Crockett (1955) Fess Parker, Disney movie
- The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) Disney movie based on a true story.
Middle School and Older: (do your homework!)
- Gone With the Wind (1939) Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
- The Alamo (1960) John Wayne, Richard Widmark
- The Red Badge of Courage (1953) Audie Murphy
- Shenandoah (1965) Virginia family in Civil War days, James Stewart
- The Horse Soldiers (1959) John Wayne, William Holden
- Friendly Persuasion (1956) Quaker family in 1862 Indiana, Gary Cooper
- Escape from Ft. Bravo (1953) William Holden
- Major Dundee (1965) Charlton Heston, Richard Harris
- Glory (1989) First all-black volunteer company in Civil War, Matthew Broderick (r-rated)
- Gettysburg (1993) Martin Sheen
- Gods and Generals (2003) 'Stonewall' Jackson, Robert Duvall
MEXICO RESOURCES
MUSIC OF MEXICO
- Mexico National Anthem with lyrics.
- Traditional Mexico music
- Mariachi music
- Malageuna performed on a guitar, up close and personal
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass--The Lonely Bull
- Andre Rieu in Mexico--watch the gusto with which they sing their beloved song!
- Cielito Lindo Pavarotti style
- More of the love of Andre Rieu in Mexico: La Paloma y Cielito Lindo
- La Cucaracha with beautiful Mexican dress dancers
- Mexican Hat Dance-- such pretty dresses!
- Traditional Aztec dancers
MOVIES:
All ages:
All ages:
- Zorro (1957-59) Disney TV series. Fighting corrupt tyrants of 1820s Spanish California
Middle School and Older:
- Captain from Castile (1947) Invasion of Mexico by Cortez, Tyrone Power
- Juarez (1939) Benito Juarez' fight for freedom in Civil War era, Bette Davis
- The Mark of Zorro (1940) Tyrone Power
- The Mask of Zorro (1998) Antonio Banderas
SOUTH AMERICA
MOVIES:
Middle School and Older (do your homework!)
Middle School and Older (do your homework!)
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) Pizarro in Peru, Christopher Plummer
- The Mission (1986) 18th Century Spanish Jesuits protect remote South American Indian tribe, Robert de Niro