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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Double Indemnity, 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a summary, photos, movie clips and cast information about the 1944 classic film, Double Indemnity.
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IMDb

Internet Movie Database: The Uninvited, 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet Movie Database provides a summary of the 1944 film, The Uninvited. Also includes credits, cast list, and more.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Wuthering Heights (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource provides an in-depth summary, poster and production information about the 1939 Hollywood classic film, Wuthering Heights.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Ninotchka

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the film, Ninotchka. Made in 1939.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a review of the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the teacher at Brookfield boys school.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Dark Victory (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the film Dark Victory.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Casablanca, 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a summary, cast information, move posters and more about the 1942 classic, Casablanca.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: The Maltese Falcon

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a summary of the film, The Maltese Falcon.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Foreign Correspondent, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource reviews an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Foreign Correspondent.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Since You Went Away, 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides the plot summary, cast information, and movie poster for the 1944 film, Since You Went Away.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an in-depth summary, poster, and cast list for the 1942 Orson Welles film, The Magnificent Ambersons.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Kings Row, 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the film, Kings Row.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Stagecoach (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the film, Stagecoach.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Destry Rides Again (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides summary, movie posters, and film facts about the 1939 classic, Destry Rides Again.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: How Green Was My Valley

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an overview of a John Ford masterpiece. Text summary, poster, links, and cast information are included. Made in 1941.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Mildred Pierce, 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes detailed summary and production information on this adventure movie, Mildred Pierce.
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PBS

Pbs: Good War & Those Who Refused to Fight It

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to the documentary on those pacifists during WW II who refused to fight in the war and the movements that supported them.
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Eva Peron in the 1940s

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about Eva Peron's death, and the circumstances surrounding it. Also includes video clips of Eva at a few public events.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Louis Jordan

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Louis Jordan, an American saxophonist-singer prominent in the 1940s and '50s who was a seminal figure in the development of both rhythm and blues and rock and roll. The bouncing, rhythmic...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Department of Archives and History: Hank Williams: A Look Back

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source materials about Hank Williams includes newspaper articles from the 1940s and 50s, magazine covers, and photographs.
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Other

Montana State University: Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's."
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Bouwmans of the Northwest: Television at the Sheckler's

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides short descriptions of various television shows in the 1940's and 1950's.
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Other

Cjaa: Memories: Uchida

For Students 6th - 8th
Yoshiko Uchida briefly talks of the world in the 1940s, Pearl Harbor, and the end of "days of innocence."
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: The Orioles

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features the Orioles, an American vocal group of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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