Aseahawkfan wrote:Yep. I've seen Glory. Great movie. Mississippi Burning, Roots, Rosewood, A Dry White Season, Cry Freedom, and the like. They made a lot of those educational/historical/biographical movies when we were growing up on slavery and The Holocaust.[/i]
The problem I have with most historical movies is that they almost always have to add a fictitious event, but at least those listed above the fictitious parts didn't distract from the overall story line. I much prefer a well done documentary by a respected producer, like Ken Burns or Allister Cook. But
"Glory" and
"Mississippi Burning" were exceptional.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Always shocking to me people can be so evil and overlook so much evil.
I once lived next door to a WW2 veteran that was a member of Patton's 3rd Army. He was in Germany in 1945 when the Americans started liberating concentration camps and was one of the soldiers that were
'ordered' by General Eisenhower to tour the camp. Ike wanted as many people, the press, et al to see immediately before anyone could accuse them of staging the conditions or else he said that
"someday someone will claim that this never happened." My neighbor said that he had heard rumors about the camps but didn't believe them, at least not to their full extent, until he toured that camp. The citizens in the surrounding villages were even worse, claimed to be unaware of what was going on just a few miles away even though they had all seen plenty of evidence. A human mind can be brainwashed into believing or rationalizing anything.