War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Welcome to another and the final in the series, special episode of Key Battles of World War 1 on film. I'm your host, James Early. This is another and again the last in our series of

episodes in which Sean McIver and I will discuss several of the best movies about World War I.

In today's episode, we've got a real gem for you. We're going to discuss the classic, epic,

award-winning, genre defining, and fill in many other positive adjectives

1962 film lawrence of arabia oh it's going to be great i'm really looking forward to

this and i hope you guys will enjoy it too i think you will my guest sean as you know by now

if you've listened to several of these episodes hopefully hopefully, he's a co-host of the excellent

podcast, Come and Take It about Texas history, culture, food, music, and everything, Texas. Check that out for

sure. And Sean, as you know by now, is also a major movie buff. I'm excited to have him with me

as always. This is one of Sean's all-time favorite movies, and rightly so.

It's a pleasure.

Let's go ahead.

How you doing, Sean?

I should ask you.

I'm good.

We are recording this on January 1st, 2021.

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