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In this episode I look at two films about Abraham Lincoln - "Young Mr. Lincoln" from 1939 and "Abrabam Lincoln" from 1930. Historical inaccuracies, myths about Lincoln, and bad makeup are discussed.
IMDB:
Young Mr. Lincoln - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032155/
Abraham Lincoln - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020620/?ref_=nv_sr_3
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals - http://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/1451688091
Intro Music - "Hail to the Chief," United Staets Navy Band - http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/honors.htm
Outro Music - "Abe Lincoln," Jetwelder - https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/958219/abe-lincoln
We have a special guest for this episode -- my girlfriend Jess! We talk about hidden histories, Bill Murray being Bill Murray, and how the World War II generation is slowly fading away.
Notes:
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/
Intro and Outro Music - "What do you do in the Infantry" - https://archive.org/details/BingCrosbyhitSongs-131-140
Smithsonian Monuments Men Site - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-monuments-men-180949569/?no-ist
The Monuments Men Website - http://www.monumentsmen.com/
The Last of the Monuments Men - http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-last-of-the-monuments-men
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Tommy Lee Jones as MacArthur in a film about the prosecution of war criminals in post-war Japan.
There's a love story thrown in too, because why not?
Notes:
IMDB Listing - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103264/?ref_=nv_sr_3
American Shogun by Robert Harvey - http://www.amazon.com/American-Shogun-Tale-Two-Cultures/dp/1585676829
Intro and Outro Music - "Pray for Japan" by frievents orchestra - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/frievents_Orchestra/
Review of a mockumentary in a universe where The Confederacy won the American Civil War.
Notes:
Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, Library of Congress Images Collection - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.05842/
"Dixieland" Performed by New York Military Band, in Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, UC Santa Barbara -
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=Dixie&num=1&start=6&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia