Oliver Stone to make movie on Bush.

RebSaint said
Why? Were you privy to the whole lesson, or just assumed that the teacher showed the film as reflecting historical truth?

He/She might have shown the film to point out the historical inaccuracies and America's fascination with conspiracies.

I showed parts of Birth of a Nation to my class, not because I think the film reflects any historical accuracy, but explained that it's a snapshot of dominant attitutudes about race relations in 1915.

True, without the classroom context, there's no telling the full intent. Still, I made sure my daughter compared the movie's dramatic "single bullet theory" courtroom segment to the History Channel's computer simulated dissection of the actual positioning of Gov. Connely and Pres. Kennedy. Big difference.

You showed part of "Birth of a Nation"? Cool...in the context of a collegeate History classroom.

Make sure to point out that the source book was written by a college classmate of Woodrow Wilson. Some apologists have asserted that Wilson's positive comments about the movie were either made up or that Wilson didn't know the content and was merely praising an old classmate. Yeah, right.