Which historically accurate movies represent a portion of the American experience?

I'm interested in developing a list of America through film. That is, accurate history. So far I have:

Pre-American Revolution

? Anything about the first colonies?

American Revolution

• Johnny Tremain

• April Morning

• John Adams

Pre Civil War

-12 Years a Slave

-Seriously, anything about War of 1812, Tripoli, the underground railroad?

American Civil War

-Gettysburg

-Gods and Generals

-Lincoln

-parts of Gone With the Wind

Reconstruction ??

The West

A big category but most are fiction

-Wyatt Earp?

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? (based on real people)

Pre-WWI ?

WWI

• Sgt York

Roaring Twenties

• Eight Men Out

• Z: The Beginning of Everything (? accurate, about Zelda Fitzgerald)

• ??

Great Depression

• Grapes of Wrath (fiction but it depicts accurate conditions)

• The Bennie Goodman Story (not really accurate but culturally relevant)

• Bird (Charlie Parker story)?

WWII

• A TON of movies but most are fiction:

• Tora Tora Tora

• Flags of Our Father

• Hacksaw Ridge (?)

• First 24 minutes of Saving Private Ryan

• The Glenn Miller Story (?)

Late 40s - 50s - The Founder (?) - About McDonalds

• 42 (?) - How accurate?

• Hoosiers (fiction but culturally accurate)

• ?? Anything about development of Jazz, Swing, Rock and roll? Is the Buddy Holly Story accurate?

The 60s

• Apollo 13

• Mississippi Burning

• JFK (Fiction - conspiracy theory - but had real footage and caught the zeitgeist)

The 70s

• All the President's Men

• Milk

• Charlie Wilson's War (?)

The 80s

The 90s

The 2000s

The 2010s

• Moneyball (?)

And so on. Can anyone recommend some decent, pretty accurate movies for the list?

EDITS MADE: Great ideas. Keep 'em coming! Music, sports, etc.

Thanks

Submitted September 18, 2017 at 11:47AM by valdemar1516 http://ift.tt/2wqmKm2