History by Hollywood: the use and abuse of the American past

Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up"

JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition"

Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty"

Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the foreign service and the military"

Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort"

Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test"

All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember"

Norma Rae : "a female rocky".