Why are they watching movies in history?
Most History teachers don't teach history anymore, they teach "Current Events" or they teach the liberal version of history that concludes every section with "And that is why America is wrong."
You mention books. That's funny. Most kids can't read today, at least not at the level that kids even 20 years ago could.
The reason you show movies is to show kids that history is real. It isn't some boring story in a boring book that they don't want to read.
It's real. It's real guns, real blood, real death and real consequences.
Good teachers today use whatever it takes to bring these mind numbed zombie survivors from modern elementary schools into real contact with the subjects they are teaching.
If that includes watching a movie at the start of a section, that's what they will do. Look at the movies, and you can see U.S. history in them:
The Patriot - U.S. Revolution
Glory - U.S. Civil War
Uprising and Private Ryan - WWII
We Were Soldiers - Vietnam
I can easily see how these movies could be used to introduce a section to kids and make them want to learn more about what they saw.
LOL...
Kids need to read about history, in history book that are as accurate as possible. Not watch history via some movie produced and written by some screen writer that lives in Reseda or North Hollywood.
Good Lord!
So let them watch movies...Oh yeah! That will help them learn to read...Sheesh.
That's why all of our utility bills, voting literature, phone books, and all government garbage is printed in Spanish.
Ya see, this really helps them learn English..
Speaking of movies...I have that Charlton Heston in the ape movie feeling again...
It's a mad house!