I recall teachers using snippets of movies that were accurate to a specific event and occasionally showing some movies that showed a semi accurate overview of events. They showed a scene from the patriot in one of my classes. WW1 was just kinda glossed over and just touched upon with bullet points. Europeans fought each-other, trenches, poison gas, american gets involved, and 14 points. A lot of event were taught like that, kinda disjointed so a day or two can be spent on a bullet-point before we hurried along to the next regardless of how important that particular part was with few exceptions.. Could be because my school had 7 periods (It was a very large school, so they had two lunch periods, some people had period 4 but not period 6, and vice versa) that each lasted an hour when a lot of other schools here have drifted towards a 4 period day with hour and a half long classes. So maybe it was because of the less time in each class. Not sure though, but yes, they did use scenes from movies as part of a lesson, usually because they were feeling lazy or had something to say about what was shown.
I recall teachers using snippets of movies that were accurate to a specific event and occasionally showing some movies that showed a semi accurate overview of events. They showed a scene from the patriot in one of my classes. WW1 was just kinda glossed over and just touched upon with bullet points. Europeans fought each-other, trenches, poison gas, american gets involved, and 14 points. A lot of event were taught like that, kinda disjointed so a day or two can be spent on a bullet-point before we hurried along to the next regardless of how important that particular part was with few exceptions.. Could be because my school had 7 periods (It was a very large school, so they had two lunch periods, some people had period 4 but not period 6, and vice versa) that each lasted an hour when a lot of other schools here have drifted towards a 4 period day with hour and a half long classes. So maybe it was because of the less time in each class. Not sure though, but yes, they did use scenes from movies as part of a lesson, usually because they were feeling lazy or had something to say about what was shown.