Bonus Assignments

You can obtain extra credit in History 112! You may do up to, but no more than, two extra credit assignments.
Extra credit assignments are worth a total of 2.5 points each, and will influence your overall grade. You may chose
from the three forms of extra credit listed below.

Extra credit is due in-class on March 5, 2008.



Section One: Movie Reviews
Chose a movie based on the list presented below and type a 1-2 page (single spaced) review of the movie. In your review you should
note the theme(s) of the movie and how the movie relates to the historical issue(s) discussed in our class and presented in our readings.
You must also consider whether ornot the film is an appropriate representation of the historical event that is at its focus. Make sure you clearly
set out what you mean by appropriate or inappropriate representation. Your review must be 1-2 pages, and single spaced. The font should be 12 point
and the writing style should be New Times Roman. Movies may be obtained at the OSU Library, Lord Hall,
local libraries, or at local video stores such as Blockbuster.



Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo (18th Century) France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. This is an
excellent portrayal of aristocratic culture of the period immediately preceding the French Revolution.



Doctor Zhivago (1965)
A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is
devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the
revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.



Europa, Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi
world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and
happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.



Fog of War (2003)
An Acadamey Award winning documentry about Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense. McNamara, one of the
most controversial and influential figures in world politics, leads viewers on an insider’s journey throug
many of the seminal events that shaped the 20th Century.



Ghandi (1982)
Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British
through his philosophy of non-violent protest.



Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
An Academy Awatd winning movie about 1950s America. Taking place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's
America, a chronicleof the real-life conflict between television news man Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph
McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.



Lives of Others (2007)
Academcy Award winning movie about life in East Germany during the Cold War. East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall,
the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist
Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend,
the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the "operation" is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn't anticipate,
however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in the lives of others--in love,
literature, free thinking and speech--makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way
of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun.



Marie Antoinette (2006)
When betrothed to King Louis XVI, the naïve and beautiful, Austrian-born Marie Antoinette enters the opulent French court,
which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Without guidance, adrift in a dangerous world, the young girl rebels against
the isolated atmosphere of Versailles and becomes France's most misunderstood monarch. Stripped of her riches and finery,
imprisoned, and ultimately beheaded by her own subjects, the Queen of France became a toxic symbol for the wanton
extravagance of the 18th century monarchy that incited to the French Revolution.



Moving the Mountain (1994)
A dramatic movie about young university students who demonsrate in the spring of 1989 for more democracy in China.
The movie is a documentary told from the point of view of the students who led the protest movement.



Munich (2005)
Currently in theaters, Munich is a movie which is a movie based on the events during the 1972
Olympics in which Israeli athletes were murdered.



Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler, who harbored Polish Jews during WWII by using them as
workers in his factory. Schindler saved 1,100 Jews from certain death.



Why We Fight (2006)
Using as his starting point Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration that a responsible government "must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," Jarecki charges that in the current political climate,
the government's ambitions -- stated or otherwise -- in going to war are often starkly different from the best interests of its citizens. Why
do we lack the sense of wartime purpose that previous generations proudly upheld? How large a role do political and corporate agendas play in influencing
a U.S. call to arms? These questions and more are addressed in a powerful film that transcends polemical scapegoating, forcing us to confront
a new brand of imperialism that cannot easily be justified or ignored.





Section Two: In-Class Presentation:
Chose a topic of interest to you from our History 112 course and create a 10 minute presentation
on your subject - which you will present to the class. Your presentation subject must be approved by the instructor and must relate to the
historicalmaterial covered in class. Presentations must occur by the end of week four.