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blueberrypancakesworld · 10 months

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Strawberry field

warning : fluff, tiny comfort, kiss, implied secret relationship, cheating, having feelings for eachother

Samuel Lafferty x fem reader

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The warm summers in Utah were long, tough and warm above all. Besides the normal things to cool off like ice cream, a fan, swimming or just escaping into the shade. There were also the sun worshippers and beach goers who just looked forward to the sun and the tan - a good day at the beach. Or a day in the cool house with the family playing board games.

Whatever you did, there was always something to spend. Or you went to an ice cream parlour and bought an gelato, to the lake for a swim or just to walk around it. Or just jumping into your own cool pool, there really was a lot to do - at first glance everyone seemed to be having fun.

But then there was Y/n, the young saleswoman/cashier at the large field of strawberries at the edge of the town, which adjoined the whole field and stood there. Under the small shelter that looked like a big red strawberry and showed a sign with prices and opening hours.

Although she almost died from the heat and her vision showed once too many strawberries, she was still quite stable. Even though the movement to the baskets she handed to the shoppers was now automatic. Just like the collecting and weighing before she hid the visitors from the consumers with a ,,I hope you like them".

As well as removing a spider from small children or helping them up and shouting at them when they stepped on the strawberries. ,,Only two more hours" she muttered as she looked at her watch and sighed for the hundredth time as the sun seemed to torment her even more.

But her colleagues had also finished their shift an hour ago and she was left behind. ,,Only for a tenner more" she grumbled and inwardly slapped herself on the forehead that she had let herself be persuaded to do the extra shift. It was just too hot and too much and definitely too many kids.

Laying back down at the wooden counter and drinking her soda, which was already warm, she almost choked when she saw Samuel Lafferty coming towards her with his daughters in tow. Thank you dear sun for bringing him here she prayed to the celestial body as she felt her senses seem to go out of control.

Concentrating on him and completely blocking out the screaming children. She hadn't really gotten over him since she had to look after his children. It might have been a little more than a crush, but this one was unexpected, wasn't it?

Smiling at him, she straightened up slightly from her tired posture and leaned forward slightly. ,,Good day Samuel, how are you?" she asked and already had three baskets in her hand which were taken from her by his children who did not listen to their father and just ran off.

,,Little beasts as you can see we are doing too well" he mumbled with a chuckle and looked after his children before turning to her and taking out his wallet. ,,And yet we love them," she replied and saw his smirk as his bright blue eyes caught hers before she took his money and gave him a basket as well. Just as she was about to take her hand back, he suddenly held it more firmly.

It was not painful, but rather friendly, engaging. Caring. ,,How about I pay you a ten more and then you come and pick strawberries you have to get back before you get here so one round?" he asked and gave her a smile even though there was a hint of excitement in his eyes as if he was just waiting for a suitable answer.

,,I don't know," she mumbled and looked around the shelter as if her boss was standing there watching her. ,,Come on, it'll be fun," she heard his voice before a defeated smile spread across her face and she came out of the shelter before standing next to him and the two of them walked behind the children.

She felt her gaze land on him again and again his hair, which he had tied into a braid, had lost a few strands that played around his face. Not here, she admonished herself as she suppressed the urge to brush the strand of hair from his face and began to pick a few strawberries with him.

Choosing the most beautiful among the remaining ones left behind, she put them one by one into the small basket. She heard him murmur a song she had already heard him sing. Together with his family in the church, she had only gone because of him.

But every damn minute had been worth it. To have received the body from him, to put the plate on her tongue, not breaking eye contact, and to drink the wine from the chalice he held out to her. A pleasant shiver of memories came over her as she thought back to the many services.

Looking at Samuel he saw him looking at a relatively large, well-formed strawberry, his fingers lightly rolling it back and forth before he murmured, ,,You look good," before gently placing the strawberry in his basket and Y/n seriously considered for a moment whether it was still about the strawberry or something else entirely.

Agreeing with him, the two continued to collect strawberries before they heard the happy laughter of the children running back to their father who greeted them happily. ,,Well then, let's go back," he announced, carrying all the baskets with him, even if a little crookedly, but still with a proud smile.

The first few metres, on the other hand, went well. Well, except that the cry of one of his children jolted him out of concentration so that he didn't see the root on the ground in front of him and took a lunge.

Before some of the inherited berries scattered on the ground. After realising that his children were fine, he sighed and knelt down to put the strawberries back into the basket. Y/n didn't waste a second before she knelt down and helped put the strawberries away, earning a ,,Thank you my dear" from Samuel.

In a typical cliche, they both grabbed a strawberry at the same time and neither really knew who to let go. ,,Thanks again for doing all this," he said suddenly, handing the heirloom to her even though a fonger remained on her hand for a moment longer than was necessary.

Watching him rise and help her up, she replied, ,,Sure, I'd be happy to do it for you and the others". Before the two of them looked at each other one more time before they went back towards the beginning and with it the shelter.

Adding her own basket to the ones already there, she stood behind the trusses and began to pack the earth berries. Completely absorbed, she watched Sammuel look at another strawberry and then ate it.

How do I become a strawberry? she asked herself before she turned back to packing, shaking her head slightly. ,,Say, sweetheart, how would you like to babysit again like you did back then?" he asked, leaning slightly on the wood and leaning forward, the smell of wood and leather coming clearly to her.

And once again she felt the connection flash. ,,Of course, when should I come?" she agreed, already feeling the anticipation of not only taking care of his enchanting children again, but also of being with him indirectly.

Slight surprise showed on her face as he came closer and closer. ,,Tonight would be best and well...I would like to reward you with a dinner in a restaurant" he spoke more calmly but not full of shame.

On the contrary, he seemed more than sure of himself. No direct payment but a meal alone with him she thought and the smirk on her lips seemed to please him more and more.

She felt his fingers go to a strand of her hair and twirl it slightly before he slid his fingers down her arm to her hands. ,,I'll take that as a yes...see you later my dear" he mumbled.

In a moment when they both seemed alone he kissed her hand gently before taking the strawberries and giving her one last loving look before walking back to the car with his children. ,,A date how scandalous" she muttered as she realised that the normally devout Samuel Lafferty was anything but. No, he was a sinner in his lust eaten inerem. And she was his sin that wanted him all the more.

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@707otto , @roryculkinsbf thought you too might like it

#under the banner of heaven samuel lafferty #under the banner of heaven #samuel lafferty #samuel lafferty x reader #rory culkin #fluff #strawberry #field #tiny comfort #kiss #on the hand #hand holding #implied secret relationship #cheating #having feelings #mutual feelings

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What's being missed despite this being 3 hours long:

the books are inartful trash, hastily written by an inexperienced writer for commercial purposes, not literary and tacky... this is marginally better than seriously analysing romance in an M&M's commercial

the books were sucking the magic out of prior vampires and whitening and suburbanising them... to witness Twilight hitting the Barnes and Nobles is to witness the world dying and going bland and turning into Wonderbread before your eyes

the books massively fail the bell hooks test -- books would have only stood a chance of not predictably repeating white capitalist supremacist patriarchy if Team Jacob would have won.

i don't think it's fair -- in the very brief examination of class issues -- to lump Twilight in with Titanic because it's not like somebody ln Titanic deliberately chooses a rich lover over a poor even if they have to die to join the immortal Mormon church. the whole point of Titanic is to fight back against -- fight back hard -- what the sort of people who write things like Twilight are doing to romance. I don't think she liked Avatar either? She's seriously got to get over her aversion to working hard on class issues. If you're screwed up enough by your fondness for wealth culture that you're making obvious errors like this, that says some work is needed. i understand my criticism probably just will exacerbate the problem though... I think it's fair to see Contrapoints as sitting closer to the castle that the Sheriff of Nottingham lives in than to being comfortable rollicking around in Sherwood Forest thinking of how to rob the rich because enough's enough... but i'd rather speak my mind even at the risk of exacerbating the problem in America just because really, that Gini Coefficient is getting obscene cuz influencers just don't seriously want to go there and risk losing that coin themselves. people feel like they worked for it, so so can you... even if their 'work' was basically like -- not working a real job and instead the donations of all the peasantry placing their hopes in them (Taylor Swift also makes her wealth this way and yes i get that there's plenty of sweat involved in getting onstage and saying OOOH LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME OOOH BARE LONG LEGGY LEGGY SHAKING OOOH but it's still not really as hard as showing up to a depressing real job)

i don't think she knows what she's talking at all on class -- about that romances can't have a poor person marrying a rich person, you'd almost swear she's never read any books by anybody and is just quickly in her head rationalising and extrapolating a Big Throught (a wrong one) in making up a bunch of b.s. that lets Twilight off the hook. like, maybe when your head is stuck in Twilight for too much of your life, you neglect all the books you should be reading about before you theorise. i mean especially if she's mentioning at least one Bronte sister to back her case... what about Agnes Grey which obviously backs the opposite point of view?

6. why, as usual does she not want to talk about what's probably the most disgusting and interesting thing about what's wrong with Twilight, this would have been the perfect time for her to dip a toe in (I get that reading all these academics has not prepared her for it, but come on, use some common sense here on what's really going on):

7. there's a gratuitous swipe at socialist in this video that i don't appreciate. either come out as a capitalist or come out as a socialist instead of equivocating and portraying yourself as a force of balanced reason. if you're truly a force of reason, you can explain in unequivocal terms what sort of economic system we're supposed to be aiming for here.

guess that's all that comes to mind... i don't think i learned anything about sexuality from these 3 hours.

my reaction actually is mostly that i'm really sick of white people and white people with money -- which isn't the intended effect of the video at all, but that's what i'm honestly feeling.

kudos for mentioning Pamela, though. I still haven't read it and it's supposed to be just magnificent. all of Europe used to cry over that stuff. Every male literary critic I'm aware of seems to love Pamela.

I haven't read Shamela, but I did not care for Henry Fielding who Bloom loves. There's another writer similar to Fielding that i didn't like at all either... forgetting who, but I remember really packing on the pounds as i read that one on the bathroom flloor in Milwauker.

also haven't heard Anne Carson mentioned in quite a while, everybdoy who likes recently literary things likes her, right. Autobiography of Red is a good reason to move to Canada and forget America exists, in my opinion. I prob should have done that 10 years ago already.

honestly i passed out during a good chunk of this video around the 70 minute mark so maybe indigenous people did get 2 seconds of a mention in that bit but i doubt it. i felt like it was a predictable video and she should take some time off, exit the ivory tower for 6 months and date a poor person. i think she could benefit from hopping on the first Greyhound to Mexico and spending some serious time down there. i'm not a hard taskmasker tho, walking around all over Mexico would be a stretch for her. i mean just start hanging out in some lower middle class neighorhood in america and going to parties or shows and loving everyone you encounter and talking to them and listening. i'm not asking for anything truly difficult for her here like hanging out with lower class people or going to a poor country. that sounds really bitchy of me but I'm just at the point 150 minutes in where i'm hearing WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WHA Charlie Brown's teacher moments, and it's not because she's too adult or over my head... it's just like, a bunch of bullshit here

BECAUSE FANS OF TWILIGHT DIDNT VIEW HER OR BELLA HER AS A

ok imagine a 70 year old woman caring i'm a 70 year old woman at heart it would be hard for a 50 year old woman to care, too these are teenagers Twilight is a young adult book I am not a young adult reader Quite frankly -- and I'm not into playing hardball, tho i could -- I'm not enough of a pedophile to be into Twilight. they are underage. they are high school meat. I would have to be what my small town called 'a chickenhawk' to technically find anything romantic about it. They are what is called Jailbait and i'm expected to care? this isn't like Agnes Grey or Wuthering Heights which were written before The Teenager was invented (kids, teenagers weren't invented til like 1944 they were invented when Hitler was killed mmkay look it up) anyhow there's quite a different jailbat OOOH BELLA IS 17 17 BABY... FLAIR to Meyer's writings about baseball-playing teenagers than there would be before the teenager was invented, mmmkay, no wonder i passed out.

I mean remember, the first two lines of this song were considered a risque way to light up a lame song with an edgier lyric in its time, and even THAT was over a half century ago now, and so what we get is both jailbait and a snooze, in the way you know, every small town male-enabling heteromind gets its thrills and that's Twilight:

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All this gets mixed in with talk about holes -- k, we're talking about high schoolers here and we're how old? That said i'm not playing hardball -- I think it's suburban, bourgeois and opportunistic to just scream PEDOPHILIA over everything every opportunity you can. My point is I just don't think she's standing on the legs of serious commentary here and might want to think about her self-indulgence on the matter distracts from the more real, grittier, more difficult and more urgent-to-the-working class social issues at hand.

If I had infinite time, and if everything about Twilight weren't currently putting me to sleep even faster than the tomato soup in the cafeteria in the Salt Lake Temple started to do, I'd write a more literary, imaginative version of Twilight in 2 months and in my version, Edward or whatever would be utterly destroyed. I think that's what Twilight fans and Contrapoint fans should be working on.

the bar is low, it's Stephanie Meyer.

if you can't outwrite Stephanie Meyer, who can you outwrite?

The only bit of this video that perked me up at all -- and it's probably sort of equivocation that is par for the course with capitalism, since Twilight obviously captivates her -- is when she calls Twilight fucking conservative and heterosexual.

i mean this was probably set off by me falling asleep but one of my friends just mentioned this. it's not really a diss, we like funny lullabys.

when this is what's showing up on your screen how can you not get drowsy. i can't belive i'ts only 6:21pm on a Saturday cuz watching this Contrapoints video makes me feel like it's gotta be 2:20am and i'm up way too late and should be in bed.

i guess she prob realises how mentally ill her twilight fixation prob is and this is prob part of her self-indulgent life story she's painting so she can look back on that time she did a 3 hr video on twilight

which is sort of like a somewhat higher notches on the socioeconomic scale pyramid version of the sort of thing i'd do

i mean at least it's original right that's not sarcasm

twilight as a subject matter was not original tho. we need some life in this pasturized nonculture

#contrapoints #twilight #stephanie meyer #pamela #samuel richardson #shamela #henry fielding #Youtube #natalie wynn #the beatles

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below-average-fangirl · 5 months

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Samuel West as Elliot Vincent in the drama, Crimson Field. [X]

#samuel west #Crimson field

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celluloidbroomcloset · 5 months

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WILL Our Flag Means Death re-ignite my long-lost love of 18th Century poetry and the utterly batshit nature of the 18th century novel? Only time will tell.

#ofmd #our flag means death #eighteenth century novels are great because there are literally no rules and everyone is off their heads #plus all the authors know and possibly hate each other #samuel richardson and henry fielding had a long-term literary feud #don't even start on alexander pope and lady montagu

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thepastisalreadywritten · 1 year

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The Strange Historical Origins of the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme

By Carl Seaver | 24 January 2023

Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty.

This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows:

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

All the King’s horses

And all the King’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

So far, the story is quite simple. However, there is a much wider story to how this nursery rhyme came into existence and developed over five or six hundred years.

This is the story of the strange historical origins of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.

The Modern Origins of Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty has been around for centuries, but the modern, standardized version of the rhyme is largely derived from the version published by an English publisher and organist Samuel Arnold in 1797. This ran:

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Four-score Men and Four-score more,

Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.”

Slight evolutions occurred after that throughout the nineteenth century until the twentieth-century version was arrived at.

Was Richard III the inspiration for Humpty Dumpty?

The Humpty Dumpty rhyme can be traced back to at least the late fifteenth century and is an allusion to King Richard III.

Richard III briefly reigned as King of England between 1483 and 1485 after his brother, King Edward IV, passed away.

Edward was to be succeeded by his son and namesake, Edward V, but as the young Edward was a minor in 1483, Richard was chosen to serve as regent until he reached adulthood.

Richard can hardly be said to have honored his brother’s faith in him and quickly placed young Edward and his younger brother Richard in the Tower of London, from where they never reappeared.

The assumption is Richard had his two young nephews killed, and thereafter, he usurped the throne.

He did not go unchallenged in this, and Henry Tudor, a Welsh upstart, overthrew him in 1485 by defeating Richard in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

All of this is relevant to Humpty Dumpty because Richard suffered from scoliosis and was a hunchback.

Additionally, his horse was allegedly called ‘Wall.’

So, in later years, when figures such as the great playwright William Shakespeare wrote about Richard, they emphasized his humped back.

By modern standards of ethics, it hardly seems acceptable to refer to somebody with a physical disability as ‘Humpty Dumpty,’ but this seems to have been a reference to Richard’s humped back.

When the rhyme refers to him falling off of a ‘wall,’ this would seem to be a reference to his horse, which Richard is recorded as falling off of at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

The King’s soldiers and men are a reference to his forces at the battle being unable to win the day against Henry Tudor’s army.

Other Possible Origins of Humpty Dumpty

Richard III’s story is the most plausible origin of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme, but several others exist.

Some suggest that Humpty Dumpty is a derivative of a Swedish or Germanic fairy tale character, many of which were immortalized by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century.

There is also a plausible link to seventeenth and eighteenth-century slang terms.

For instance, Humpty Dumpty was a drink consumed in Stuart-era Britain composed of a mix of brandy and ale.

This, combined with other pejorative terms which were used at the time to refer to people of shorter stature, would suggest that at least in the eighteenth century before Arnold publicized the largely modernized version of the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty was a bawdy, insulting comedic figure of some sort which term was widely applied to people when inebriated.

Humpty Dumpty and the English Civil War

One final interpretation is that Humpty Dumpty was the name of a large piece of ordnance, or a canon, which was mounted on the walls of the town of Colchester in the mid-seventeenth century.

During the 1640s, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland were enveloped by a series of conflicts collectively known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms or the English Civil War in England.

Colchester was besieged during the civil war between King Charles I and the English Parliament in 1648.

Humpty Dumpty was the name of a huge canon atop the town’s walls.

The Royalists, the King’s supporters, held the town while the Parliamentarians besieged it.

The wall, which Humpty Dumpty was perched on top of, was shattered by parliamentary ordnance fire, and Humpty Dumpty fell off this great wall.

The King’s Men, in this interpretation, were the Royalists, who could not remount the canon, and eventually, after an eleven-week siege of Colchester, were forced to surrender to the Parliamentary forces.

Again, the theory that the Humpty Dumpty rhyme originates in the siege of Colchester in 1648 is speculative.

What seems clear from all of this is that there is no one origin story for the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.

Rather, it was a rhyme inherited from the early modern world from medieval times.

Each successive generation reimagined it to suit the circumstances of their age, whether that was Richard III falling from his horse in 1485, a canon falling from the walls of Colchester in 1648, or somebody who had drank too much brandy and ale falling over in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.

Each generation brought its interpretation to the rhyme we all know today.

#Humpty Dumpty #Samuel Arnold #King Richard III #Battle of Bosworth Field #Henry Tudor #King Edward IV #Edward V #Brothers Grimm #Hans Christian Andersen #Wars of the Three Kingdoms #English Civil War

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geekcavepodcast · 2 months

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The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin Trailer

Dick Turpin is the most famous and dangerous highway robber of the 18th century. Dick is "made the reluctant leader of a band of outlaws — and tasked with outwitting corrupt lawman and self-appointed thief-taker Jonathan Wilde." (Apple TV)

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin stars Noel Fielding (Dick Turpin), Hugh Bonneville (Jonathan Wilde), Ellie White, Marc Wootton, Duayne Boachie, Tamsin Greig, Asim Chaudhry, Dolly Wells, Joe Wilkinson, Mark Heap, Geoff McGivern, Michael Fielding, Samuel Leakey, Kiri Flaherty, Greg Davies, Diane Morgan, Connor Swindells, Jessica Hynes, Guz Khan, and Paul Kaye.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin hits Apple TV+ on March 1, 2024.

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knightsofrayx · 1 year

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Some more artwork for @daisychainsandbowties wn x sw AU

here's a quick sketch of baby!lilith and shortly into her training as Adriel's apprentice. I decided to mesh a de-sexualized (come on people she's like, 14 at the moment) version of both Lilith's season 2 outfit and then Ventress's early clone wars outfit.

here we've got Ava and a little spider.

(also while drawing this I was hit with a "what if Shannon was not a bug person", and then spent about ten minutes giggling over Ava popping up with spiders crawling all over her and Shannon using all her Jedi fortitude to not break down screaming)

and finally this one

Bea: Do you know their stories?

Lilith: I know their deaths.

I was watching that episode of "Kenobi" and was immediately invaded by geonosian brain worms to make this.

#wn star wars au #warrior nun #save warrior nun #sister lilith #sister beatrice #ava silva #spooooders #shannon masters #let shannon say fuck (at least in her head)#and I can't believe it took me this long to notice this #but... “shannon masters”#“master shannon masters”#“master masters”#Ava and Mary most definitely had a field day with that #don't worry casper the next set will have more blood in it #much more blood #samuel kim's “Darth Maul & Savage Opress Theme” is such a LilithxBea fight song aesthetic #whether it's the two of them hunting Jedi/Rebels #or them fighting each other #my art #fic: luminous beings #also just thinking about Lilith in this universe #how she never really fits in #she was an outsider amongst the nightsisters #already separate from the rest of them just by the virtue of existing #and even among the inquisitorious #all the other inquisitors were former jedi #they grew up in the temple #they were all part of the same order #but lilith?

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helmstone · 3 months

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The Completely made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin trailer

Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer for upcoming historical comedy The Completely Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin. The show stars Noel Fielding as the legendary British highwayman and premieres globally on Friday, March 1, 2024, with the first two episodes, followed by a new episode every Friday until March 29. In The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Dick Turpin (Fielding) sets out…

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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Clouds (No. 878)

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now-watching · 2 years

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Recommendations 56-60:

56. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992), dir. Michael Mann

“THE FIRST AMERICAN HERO.

As the British and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and Native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by Hawkeye, an orphaned settler adopted by the last of the Mohicans.”

Availability: Available for rental via YouTube, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

57. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016), dir. Raoul Peck

“Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.”

Availability: Available on Amazon with a Prime subscription and for rental via YouTube, GooglePlay, VUDU, AppleTV, and Amazon. Also available on Hoopla and possibly Kanopy with (free) accounts.

58. TOMBSTONE (1993), dir. George Cosmatos

“JUSTICE IS COMING.

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.”

Availability: Available on Amazon with a Prime membership and can be rented via YouTube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

59. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992), dir. Penny Marshall

“TO ACHIEVE THE INCREDIBLE, YOU HAVE TO ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE.

As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell co-star as two of the sisters’ teammates.”

Availability: Available on Amazon with a Prime membership and can be rented via YouTube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

60. FIELD OF DREAMS (1989), dir. Phil Alden Robinson

“IF YOU BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE INCREDIBLE CAN COME TRUE.

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s directions don’t stop – even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.”

Availability: Available on PeacockTV with a subscription and available for rental on YouTube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

[The American Experience Film Recs]

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