History in film 
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SOURCE: Columbia News
8/13/2022
A Columbia Prof. Fact-Checked the New Vietnam-Era Film "The Greatest Beer Run Ever"
Although it tells the story of American protagonists, Prof. Lien-Hang Nguyen worked with the producers to ensure accuracy and avoid stereotyping in the depiction of Vietnamese characters in the film; she susggests that there are many more Vietnamese stories to tell.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
9/14/2020
Why ‘Glory’ Still Resonates More Than Three Decades Later
by Kevin M. Levin
The film based on the story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry is streaming on Netflix. Kevin Levin suggests that despite the narrative license taken, the film puts the story of Black freedom fighters and the question of emancipation at the center of the story of the Civil War.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/12/2020
In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.
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