
What to Watch | History in Movies, Part III
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Dances With Wolves - A Film Review
Dances with wolves shows the account of a character named John Dunbar, an accidental hero in the Civil War. It's not until we see him embrace the frontier and learn communication with a Lakota tribe that you get a deep sense of his challenges. Elizabeth the Golden Age is also riddled with anti-Catholic imagery. Fools are dark and foreboding while the Protestant Queen's chapel is light and breezy.
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