Important films of Progressive Era era
(Digital History ID 3721)
- Turn of the Century
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- Ragtime (1981)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
- Immigration
- America, America (1963)
- Hester Street (1975)
- Mexico and Mexican Americans
- Ballad of Gregorio Cortes (1982)
- Viva Villa (1934)
- Viva Zapata (1952)
- Biopics
- Funny Girl (1968)- about Fanny Brice
- Gentleman Jim (1942)- about boxer James J. Corbett,
- Great White Hope (1970) - about boxer Jack Johnson
- Great Ziegfeld (1936)- about Florenz Ziegfeld
- Hungry Hearts (1922)- about Jewish immigrants
- Jim Thorpe, All American (1951)
- Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
- Knute Rockne: All-American
- Lillian Russell (1940)
- Magnificent Yankee (1950)- about Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Miracle Worker (1979)- about Helen Keller
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
- Wilson (1944): Woodrow Wilson
- Wind and the Lion (1975)- about Teddy Roosevelt
- The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)- about Orville and Wilbur Wright
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - about George M. Cohan
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