Can you help me understand this History question?

• A brief summation of the movie (no longer than one paragraph in length, approximately 150 words)
• How historically accurate was the plot (did these events actually take place as presented in the movie)?
• How historically accurate were the characters (were they based on real people, or were they composites of multiple individuals)?
• How do the events found in the movie reinforce or disregard themes found in the textbook and the in-class primary source documents (point to specific examples to support your argument)?
• How was the historical information presented (was it simply a backdrop for the story that the director wanted to tell, or was it essential)?

Movie Selections

The Alamo (2004)

American Experience: The Abolitionists (2013)

Amistad (1997)

Twelve Years a Slave (2013)

Harriet (2019)

American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War (2001)

The Birth of a Nation (2016, the new one, not the terrible racist one from a hundred years ago)

Gettysburg (1993)

Glory (1989)

Gods and Generals (2003)

Lincoln (2012)

North and South, Book I (1985)

North and South, Book II (1986)

The book: Give Me Liberty! An American History, 5th Edition (Volume 1), by Eric Foner (ISBN 978-0393-60342-2)

Note: Need to have three outside sources.