Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

This film showed the competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.. Americans lived in fear that the Joseph Stalin would try to spread communism across the world. The U.S. felt it had the advantage after they dropped the atomic bomb because they were the first country to have a atomic bomb. This glory did not last long, soon the Russians made even more powerful bombs called hydrogen bombs (H-bomb). The Americans then made H-bombs of their own. The Russians then made the first satalite to go into space, this start the competition of the astronauts. We put a monkey into space and they put a human. We were determined to get ahead of the Russians. We put a group of astronauts into space who became American heroes, which is what "The Rights Stuff" is about. We eventually got ahead of the game by being the first to put a man on the moon.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

"Schindler's List illustrated how horrible the Holocaust really was. Jews were treated inhumanely and killed by the millions. They moved all Jews poor and rich into ghettos. Jews were forced to live in small crowded buildings. One of the more powerful scenes for me was when the children were separated from their parents just to be killed because they wanted to kill the next generation of Jews. Many Jews hoped to be put in labor camps because it was the best chance they had at living. Auschwitiz was the one place where Jews felt that they would live. Schindler did not let many of his workers get killed. The pictures of the killing of Jews for no reason at all will never leave my mind. Schindler knew that there was no justice to the killing of the Jews, he tried to save as many Jews as he could.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

"Night and Fog" showed just how inhumane the jews were treated. Im sure many people were surprised to find out how serious the holocaust really was. This is one of the worst cases of genocide of all time and it was done in such orginized manor, as if the nazis truly felt they were making a better world. "Schindler's List" was a more hollywood version of the holocaust and some of the events were not true, but for the most part it showed a good historical demonstration on the everyday hardships the jews had to face. "Night and Fog" showed more effectively just how harsh the jews were treated but "Shindler's List" showed how much they had to go through for mant years. Both of these films give a deep understanding to what it was like to be jewish back then and made me feel that such things should of never happened and should never happen again.