Historical Animation

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Which animated film is based on the life of Joan of Arc?

  1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  2. Anastasia

  3. Mulan

  4. The Prince of Egypt


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 34th Disney animated feature film is loosely based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel of the same name.

Which animated film tells the story of the American Revolution?

  1. The Lion King

  2. Pocahontas

  3. The Road to El Dorado

  4. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 33rd Disney animated feature film is loosely based on the life of Pocahontas, a Native American woman who saved the life of English colonist John Smith.

Which animated film is set during the French Revolution?

  1. The Aristocats

  2. Beauty and the Beast

  3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  4. Anastasia


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical drama film produced by Fox Animation Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is loosely based on the life of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.

Which animated film tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic?

  1. Titanic

  2. The Poseidon Adventure

  3. The Towering Inferno

  4. Earthquake


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized elements, it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.

Which animated film is set during the World War II?

  1. The Lion King

  2. Mulan

  3. The Road to El Dorado

  4. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical war film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 36th Disney animated feature film is loosely based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, a female warrior who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Imperial Chinese Army.

Which animated film tells the story of the Vietnam War?

  1. Apocalypse Now

  2. Platoon

  3. Full Metal Jacket

  4. The Deer Hunter


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, but is set during the Vietnam War.

Which animated film is set during the Cold War?

  1. The Iron Giant

  2. The Incredibles

  3. Ratatouille

  4. WALL-E


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film directed by Brad Bird and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The film is loosely based on Ted Hughes's 1968 novel The Iron Man.

Which animated film tells the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall?

  1. The Wall

  2. Goodbye, Lenin!

  3. The Lives of Others

  4. Run Lola Run


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Wall is a 1990 British drama film directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof, Roger Waters, and Jeremy Irons. The film is based on the 1979 rock opera of the same name by Pink Floyd.

Which animated film is set during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?

  1. The Last Emperor

  2. Farewell My Concubine

  3. Raise the Red Lantern

  4. Ju Dou


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Last Emperor is a 1987 epic biographical drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring John Lone, Joan Chen, and Peter O'Toole. The film is based on the life of Puyi, the last emperor of China.

Which animated film tells the story of the Rwandan genocide?

  1. Hotel Rwanda

  2. Sometimes in April

  3. Shake Hands with the Devil

  4. The Ghosts of Rwanda


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American historical drama film directed by Terry George and starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, and Joaquin Phoenix. The film is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan hotel manager who saved the lives of over a thousand Tutsi refugees during the Rwandan genocide.

Which animated film is set during the September 11 attacks?

  1. United 93

  2. World Trade Center

  3. The Pentagon Papers

  4. Zero Dark Thirty


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

United 93 is a 2006 American drama film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring David Alan Basche, Lynn Collins, and Christian Clemenson. The film is based on the events of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001.

Which animated film tells the story of the Iraq War?

  1. The Hurt Locker

  2. Zero Dark Thirty

  3. American Sniper

  4. The Post


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty. The film is based on the experiences of journalist Mark Boal, who embedded with a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq.

Which animated film is set during the Syrian Civil War?

  1. For Sama

  2. The Cave

  3. Last Men in Aleppo

  4. Of Fathers and Sons


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

For Sama is a 2019 Syrian documentary film directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. The film follows al-Kateab, a young woman who lives in Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

Which animated film tells the story of the Rohingya refugee crisis?

  1. The White Helmets

  2. Last Men in Aleppo

  3. Of Fathers and Sons

  4. Exodus


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Exodus is a 2020 Canadian documentary film directed by Penny Lane. The film follows the journey of a group of Rohingya refugees who flee Myanmar to Bangladesh.

Which animated film is set during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  1. Contagion

  2. Outbreak

  3. The Andromeda Strain

  4. 28 Days Later


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Contagion is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Marion Cotillard. The film follows the spread of a deadly virus that causes a global pandemic.

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