Beyond the Big Screen - Steve Guerra

March 18, 2022 - 5 min

March 17, 2022 - 38 min

Title: One Man’s Hero is Another Man’s TraitorDescription: Today, Steve and Jacob Herr try to find something to like about the 1999 film, One Man’s Hero. This film tries to tell the story of the San Patricio Battalion. Does it succeed or is it a nightmare of history in film?Learn More About our Guest:Jacob Herr, actor and historianhttps://www.trendyhistory.org/listing/erin-go-bragh-batallon-de-sa?product=2You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By http://www.cinemotions.net/data/films/0315/39/1/affiche-One-Man-s-Hero-1999-1.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22125033Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Jacob Herr. Links to learn more about Jacob and his history themed merchandise can be found at trendinghistory.com or in the Show Notes. In this episode, we talk about the 1999 film One Man’s Hero based on the history of the San Patricio Battalion in the Mexican American War. In the last episode, Jacob led us through the real history and background of this fascinating story. Listening to that episode only makes this one even better!You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] I'd like to welcome back. Jacob heard to beyond the big screen, Jacob has been on to talk about Billy, the kid and film and in history and in the last episode. So I highly suggest you go back and listen to the last episode. He gave us a ton of background and context on the San Patricio battalion from the Mexican-American war.Today, we are going to talk about the 1990. Film one man's hero, a film that dramatizes the events of the San Patricio battalion during the, the Mexican American war. And like I said, I highly encouraged people to go back and listen to our episode on the history of the St. Patrice CEO's. Catholic deserters from the U S army to the Mexican army duri

Erin Go Bragh and the San Patricio Battalion

March 14, 2022 - 54 min

Title: Erin Go Bragh and the San Patricio BattalionDescription: Today, Steve is joined by frequent guest Jacob Herr to talk about the history, background and context of a group of mostly Irish, but also other nationality Catholics who deserted the United States Army the Army of Mexico right before and during the Mexican American War. This unit, called the San Patricio Battalion fought bravely during many of the pivotal battles of the war. Learn their fate after this controversial conflict. Enjoy this incredible story on St. Patrick’s Day or any other day of the year!Learn More About our Guest:Jacob Herr, actor and historianhttps://vocal.media/authors/jacob-herrYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By http://www.cinemotions.net/data/films/0315/39/1/affiche-One-Man-s-Hero-1999-1.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22125033Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Jacob Herr. Links to learn more about Jacob and his blog can be found at https://vocal.media/authors/jacob-herr or in the Show Notes. In this episode, the real history, context and background on story of the San Patricio Battalion in the Mexican American War. Keep your podcatchers updated for our next episode, where Jacob and I see if Hollywood appreciated or hated history in the 1999 film, One Man’s Hero.You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] I would like to welcome Jacob Herbeck to the show. Jacob took us through the really fascinating look at both the real Billy the kid and Billy, the kid has portrayed in popular media. Jacob is going to do it again today with a really intriguing yet not widely known piece of American history. The Mexican-American war is a complicated conflict to discuss there's many moving parts in diplomacy, military, and culture.<br

Coming Soon -St Patrick San Patricios Heroes and Traitors

March 11, 2022 - 5 min

Gung Ho and the Story of Marine Raiders

March 10, 2022 - 65 min

Title: Gung Ho and the Story of Marine RaidersDescription: Today Steve talks again with Professor James Early, certified American History Fanatic and host of The Key Battles of American History Podcast about the 1943 World War 2 film Gung Ho! This film in a way fairly accurately portrays the events of the Marine Raider Battalion led by Major Evans Carlson. James has a close connection to this movie, so you will want to find out!Learn More About our Guest:James Early host of The Key Battles of American History PodcastKeybattlesofamericanhistory.comYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By The poster art can or could be obtained from Universal Studios., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28900379Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Professor James Early of the Key Battles of American History Podcast and fellow member of the Parthenon Podcast Network. Links to learn more about James can be found at key battles of American history dot com or in the Show Notes. You can also search up James’ group American History Fanatics on Facebook.You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] Today we are going to talk about the 1943 masterpiece. Some might say world war II, film gung ho with the movie is very loosely based off of the Carlson Raiders Marine Raiders of the ILN of Macon. And we're joined today by professor James early of the key battles of world war II. I am just fumbling all over myself today.We are joined today by professor James early of the key battles of American history podcast. To discuss this, I guess you might say incredible movie, James. Thanks for coming on while we're probably on your show too. So thanks for collaborating on this great movie. Going, whoa, gung ho gung ho, I guess let's just start off because I'm sure most people are familiar with you, but why don't you introduce yourself?Sure. I am, uh, a part-time or [00:01:00] adjunct professor of us history at San Jacinto college, which is in Pasadena, Texas. That's just south and east of Houston. And I've been teaching for oh gosh, six or seven years now. And I'm just a huge history fanatic. I've been a history level all my life. I started a Facebook group back in 2016 called American history fanatics, and it's grown to about 5,500 people and we have some really good discussions there and posts about all kinds of things related to us history or American hist

Warren G Harding: A President for the Jazz Age

March 7, 2022 - 51 min

Title: Warren G Harding: A President for the Jazz AgeDescription: Today we are joined by multiple time guest, author Ryan S. Walters to talk about the short, but important presidency of Warren G. Harding. Harding often doesn’t do well in presidential rankings, but Ryan is working to give us a new perspective on a president who was much more impactful than he is given credit for. Ryan lays out the case for Warren G. Harding in his new book: The Jazz Age PresidentLearn More About our Guest:Ryan S. WaltersRyanswalters.nethttps://www.regnery.com/9781621578840/the-jazz-age-president/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Ryan S Walters, author of The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding . Links to learn more about Ryan and his book can be found at at ryanswalters.net or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] I'd like to welcome Ryan S. Walters back to beyond the big screen. Ryan is an independent historian and frequent guest of the show. Welcome back. And it's great to have you on again. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. I guess I'm a third go around. I think.Oh, it's my pleasure. And Brian is the author of several books, including disaster at NASA book on Apollo one. He is also the author of two books on Grover Cleveland. And you can listen to the episodes on both of these books or all three of these books and go back and, um, buy the books as well. And all of that.Found in the show notes, but today we are going to talk about the 29th president of the United States. Warren G Harding. And Ryan has written a book on Warren G Harding on the jazz age. President Harding was president from March of 1921 to August of 1923. And this is a really [00:01:00] interesting time in American history and political history.Now to set the stage, we talked about Grover Cleveland in one of your previous appearances on the podcast. And Cleveland's presidency was during an age of great change. Cleveland was a Democrat a

Coming Soon -Gung Ho for Warren Harding

March 4, 2022 - 5 min

A Taste of the Future of Law Enforcement: RoboCop

March 3, 2022 - 49 min

Title: A Taste of the Future of Law Enforcement: RoboCopDescription: Is RoboCop as relevant today as it was when it was released in 1987? In today’s episode, Steve and Chris examine the movie RoboCop and the sequel RoboCop 2. We talk about science fiction, dystopian fiction and more!You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By http://www.impawards.com/1987/robocop.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18685790Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to our frequent guest, Chris. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. You can get books, early released and ad free episodes and even becoming a part of the team! Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] Welcome back to beyond the big screen. We're joined again by Chris. Um, and you'll know Chris from pro meet the S but today we're going to delve in, in a really similar way to another 80 scifi movie Robocop and not just Robocop one Robocop two. We're going to look at w what did this movie, what were some of the big ideas and concepts that this movie was trying to.Dig into and talk about. So it's really much more than an action movie. It's it's really is trying to in an 80 scifi kind of way, tap into some really interesting and complicated social and technological issues. So, Chris, how are you doing? Doing quite well? I, myself, um, yeah, roll Robocop is, uh, it's just a, it's a movie I grew up with all the time.It's uh, Pretty much anytime I get sick, it's the first thing I throw on is Robocop because I get I'll order a pizza or something and just watch [00:01:00] Robocop until I get better in the morning. It's just, I've watched it so many times. I just think it's, it's brilliant. But the basic premise of Robocop, I guess I should lay this out for the audiences.So Detroit is falling apart basically. And this is for both movies, Robocop and Robocop, uh, to Detroit is falling apart. Uh, the criminals essentially are running the streets, um, and the cops are being, uh, killed. Right. They seem to, uh

The Rise of Imperial Japan

March 1, 2022 - 18 min

Dredd – He is the Law

February 28, 2022 - 63 min

Title: Dredd – He is the Law Description: Today Steve is joined by frequent guest Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast to talk about the 2012 incredible sci-fi action drama Dredd. We discuss what can be learned social movements and law enforcement in our times through this amazing film.Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider PodcastReconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By May be found at the following website: IMP Awards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36617316Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Erik of the Reconsider Podcast. Links to learn more about Erik and Reconsider can be found at reconsidermedia.org or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] I am very excited to welcome back Eric fog of the reconsider podcast to talk about the 2012 cult classic dread. Eric, how are you doing well? I'm better now because I'm talking about one of my favorite movies of all time. Uh, just, uh, people are in for a rare treat today. Th I, you know, I mean, look, last, last thing we put out was on pre-media.So you got to hear that you got to hear Eric and Steve rant about how crappy a movie it was. And we're just going to totally flip it on its head and talk about how like masterfully this bad boy is put together. So this movie at stars, Karl urban, Olivia Thoreau, B Lena Hadley. And domino Gleason, who was, he was magnificent and it, but what we'll get to that, let's slow down.Um, it's based on the comic book, judge dread, and there's no connection to the 1995 Stallone movie, judge Dredd. I personally liked judge dread, but it's a very different movie and they're not sequels or prequels in any way. Uh, now as always, we [00:01:00] feature plenty of spoilers. That's what we're calling with.That's what we're here for. You can listen to this episode and learn a lot about the movie, having never watched it. And you'll definitely want to watch this movie and listen to this episode several times, I guarantee it.