US History: Pre-1800s

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Week Era Year President English class tie-in Film Other readings
1 Roots (first half) Apocalypto, Elizabeth, Roots (film) (discs 1 & 2) Hakim: book 1, The First Americans; Yo! Millard Fillmore;
2 Native Americans and the European Colonists: Columbian Exchange, (Amerigo Vespucci) Pre-1500s Hiawatha Leif Ericson   Christopher Columbus Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyages One and Two
3 Native Americans and the European Colonists: (Virginia Dare) 1500s   Hernando de Soto   Walter Raleigh   Jacques Cartier Pocahontas (1995 film) Zinn: chapter 1, "Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress"
4 The Thirteen Colonies 1600   Powhatan   Pocahontas   John Smith The Scarlet Letter Hakim: book 2, Making Thirteen Colonies
5 The Thirteen Colonies 1650   William Bradford   Anne Bradstreet   Anne Hutchinson Squanto: A Warrior's Tale Hakim: book 2, Making Thirteen Colonies
6 The Thirteen Colonies Early 1700s   Jonathan Edwards (theologian)   Ben Franklin Jemmy Cato The Scarlet Letter (film) Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyages Three and Four
7 The Thirteen Colonies 1760   Samuel Adams   Thomas Paine   Chief Pontiac Roots (second half) Last of the Mohicans Zinn: chapter 2, "Drawing the Color Line" and chapter 3, "Persons of Mean and Vile Condition"
8 The American Revolution: (Betsy Ross) 1770   Patrick Henry   George Washington   Benedict Arnold The Patriot (film) Hakim: book 3, From Colonies to Country; My Brother Sam is Dead
9 The American Revolution 1780   George Washington   Eli Whitney   Phillis Wheatley   Daniel Boone Drums Along the Mohawk Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyages Five and Six; The Declaration of Independence, & the U.S. Constitution
10 The American Revolution 1790   John Adams   Abigail Adams   John Jay   Olaudah Equiano John Adams Zinn: chapter 4, "Tyranny is Tyranny" and chapter 5, "A Kind of Revolution"

US History: 1800s

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Week Era Year President President Book Film Other readings
11 Shaping the Republic 1800   Thomas Jefferson   Sacagawea   Meriwether Lewis   Sequoyah Huck Finn John Adams Hakim: book 4, The New Nation
12 Shaping the Republic 1810   James Madison   Alexander Hamilton   Tecumseh   Davy Crockett John Adams Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyage Seven
13 Shaping the Republic 1820   James Monroe   John Quincy Adams   John Marshall   Sojourner Truth   Joseph Smith John Adams Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyage Eight
14 Slavery & the Mexican-American War 1830   Andrew Jackson   Edgar Allan Poe   William Lloyd Garrison   Nat Turner North and South Hakim: book 5, Liberty for All?
15 Slavery & the Mexican-American War 1840   Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore   Lucretia Mott   Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Dorothea Dix One Man's Hero Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyage Nine and Ten
16 Slavery & the Mexican-American War 1850   Franklin Pierce   James Buchanan   Harriet Tubman   Harriet Beecher Stowe   Samuel Morse Killer Angels Ride with the Devil Zinn: chapter 8, "We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God"
17 The Civil War & Reconstruction 1860   Abraham Lincoln   Andrew Johnson   Robert E. Lee   Frederick Douglass   Clara Barton Glory Hakim: book 6, War, Terrible War; Killer Angels
18 The Civil War & Reconstruction 1870   Ulysses S. Grant   Rutherford B. Hayes   Emily Dickinson  Mark Twain   Walt Whitman Lonesome Dove Mitchener's Chesapeake: Voyage Eleven
19 The Civil War & Reconstruction: Alexander Graham Bell (Canadian) 1880  James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur   Grover Cleveland   Thomas Edison   Calamity Jane Dances with Wolves Zinn: chapter 9, "Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom" and chapter 10, "The Other Civil War"

US History: 1900-1950

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Week Era Year President Book Film Other readings
20 Westward Expansion & Native Americans: (Liliuokalani) 1890  Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley   Geronimo   Sitting Bull   Samuel Gompers Watch for Me on the Mountain How the West Was Won Hakim: book 7, Reconstructing America
21 Westward Expansion & Native Americans 1900   Theodore Roosevelt   Susan B. Anthony   Jane Addams   Ida B. Wells Story of an Hour Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Zinn: chapter 6, "The Intimately Oppressed"
22 Westward Expansion & Native Americans 1905   Theodore Roosevelt   W. E. B. Du Bois   Booker T, Washington   Alice Paul The Searchers Zinn: chapter 7, "As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs"
23 Industrialization, WWI, and Women's Suffrage: (Jim Thorpe) 1910   William Howard Taft   Henry Ford   Wright Brothers   George Washington Carver The Jungle The Great White Hope (film) Hakim: book 8, "An Age of Extremes"
24 Industrialization, WWI, and Women's Suffrage 1915   Woodrow Wilson   Babe Ruth   John D. Rockefeller   Ida Tarbell Legends of the Fall Zinn: chapter 11, "Robber Barons and Rebels," and chapter 12, "The Empire and the People"
25 Industrialization, WWI, and Women's Suffrage: The Miracle Worker 1920   Warren G. Harding   Margaret Sanger Langston Hughes   Helen Keller Iron Jawed Angels Zinn: chapter 13, "The Socialist Challenge"
26 Great Depression 1925   Calvin Coolidge   Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart   Georgia O'Keefe Grapes of Wrath Miller's Crossing (film) Hakim: book 9, "War, Peace, and All that Jazz"
27 Great Depression 1930   Herbert Hoover   Albert Einstein Philo Farnsworth   Walt Disney Mitchner's Chesapeake: Voyage Twelve
28 Great Depression 1935   Franklin D. Roosevelt Jesse Owens   Louis Armstrong   Dorothea Lange Grapes of Wrath Zinn: chapter 15, "Self-Help in Hard Times"
29 WWII & Suburbanization 1940   Franklin D. Roosevelt   Frank Lloyd Wright   Marian Anderson   J. Robert Oppenheimer Their Eyes Were Watching God Tora, Tora, Tora! Zinn: chapter 16, "A People's War?"
30 WWII & Suburbanization 1945   Harry S. Truman   Jackie Robinson   Elvis Presley   Tennessee Williams Saving Private Ryan
31 WWII & Suburbanization 1950   Harry S. Truman   Earl Warren   Marilyn Monroe   James D. Watson Truman The Bridges at Toko-Ri

US History: 1950-2000

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Week Era Year President Book Film Other readings
32 Civil Rights Movement & Space Race 1955   Dwight D. Eisenhower   Jonas Salk   Rosa Parks   César Chávez A Rumor of War The Right Stuff (film) or Forrest Gump (film) Hakim: book 10, "All the People."
33 Civil Rights Movement & Space Race 1960   John F. Kennedy   Rachel Carson   Alan Shepard   Thurgood Marshall Thirteen Days (film) Mitchner's Chesapeake: "Voyage Thirteen."
34 Civil Rights Movement & Space Race 1965   Lyndon B. Johnson   MLK   Malcolm X   Neil Armstrong Malcolm X (film) Zinn: chapter 17, "'Or Does It Explode?'"
35 Vietnam and the Cold War 1970   Richard Nixon   Gerald Ford 80px Jimi Hendrix   Betty Friedan   Gloria Steinem Platoon (film) Zinn: chapter 18, "The Impossible Victory: Vietnam"
36 Vietnam and the Cold War 1975   Jimmy Carter   Muhammad Ali   Harvey Milk   Billie Jean King Milk (film) Zinn: chapter 19, "Surprises"
37 Vietnam and the Cold War 1980   Ronald Reagan   Carl Sagan Sandra Day O'Connor   Sally Ride Tortilla Curtain And the Band Played On (film) or Do the Right Thing Zinn: chapter 20, "The Seventies: Under Control?"
38 Computer Revolution: (Sam Walton) 1985   Ronald Reagan   Oprah   Michael Jackson   Madonna (entertainer) Boyz N the Hood Zinn: chapter 21, "Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus"
39 Computer Revolution 1990   George H. W. Bush   Bill Gates   Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)   Mia Hamm An Inconvenient Truth or American Beauty (film) Zinn: chapter 22, "The Unreported Resistance"
40 Computer Revolution 1995   Bill Clinton   Michael Jordan   Madeleine Albright   Jeff Bezos Crash (2005 film) or American History X (film) Zinn: chapter 24, "The Clinton Presidency"

US History: 2000s

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Week Era Year President Book Film Other readings
41 Terrorism, oil, & U.S. military hegemony 2000   George W. Bush   Jennifer Lopez   Tiger Woods   Serena Williams World Trade Center (film) (first half); United 93 (film) (second half) Zinn: chapter 25, "The 2000 Election and the War On Terrorism"
42 Terrorism, oil, & U.S. military hegemony 2005   George W. Bush   Colin Powell   Condi Rice   Alex Rodriguez W. (film)
43 Terrorism, oil, & U.S. military hegemony 2010   Barack Obama   Sonia Sotomayor   Stephenie Meyer   Nancy Pelosi Syriana

Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations

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Year Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Media
2000s BC Sargon of Akkad Menes, Khufu Ancient Minoans (Clan of the Cave Bear)
1000s BC Hammurabi, Babylonian Empire Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tut, Ramesses II Ancient Minoans Akhenaten (Mahfouz)
800BC Homer Magna Graecia, Founding of Rome Troy
600BC Ashurbanipal, Assyrian Empire; Nebuchadnezzar II, Neo-Babylonian Empire Ashurbanipal of Assyria Aeschylus, Aesop, Pythagoras, Sappho Founding of the Roman Republic; Cincinnatus
400BC Achaemenid Empire: Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Xerxes Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Aristophanes, Democritus, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Sophocles, Thucydides Roman Republic 300
200BC Darius III of the Achaemenid Empire Alexander the Great Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Archimedes, Euclid Punic Wars, rapid growth of the Roman Republic
0 Mithridates I of Parthia, Parthian Empire Cleopatra Julius Caesar & Augustus Julius Caesar & Augustus: Roman Republic turns into Roman Empire; Cicero, Virgil, Ovid; Christ I, Cladius (Graves); Ben-Hur; Rome (HBO)
200AD Ardashir I, Sassanid Empire Diocletian Diocletian Diocletian: height of the Roman Empire Gladiator
400AD Bahram V, Sassanid Empire Constantine I Constantine I Constantine I & the Spread of Christianity; the Fall of the Roman Empire
600AD Mohammad & the Spread of Islam Spread of Christianity The Message (Akkad)

Western Civilization: the Last Thousand Years

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Year Era & Media Spain England France Germany Italy Russia
500: "Why/How is most of the Western world Christian?" Fall of the Roman Empire, Spread of Christianity: Hun (Burgess); St. Patrick, the Irish Legend; A Child's History of England (Churchill)   Reccared I   Saint Patrick   Clovis I Attila the Hun   Odoacer
750 Viking Age: The Vikings File:Tariq ibn Ziyad.JPG Tariq ibn Ziyad   Alfred the Great   Charlemagne   Charlemagne   Charlemagne   Rurik
1000 High Middle Ages: El Cid; The War Lord Abd-ar-Rahman II   William the Conqueror   Peter Abelard   Hildegard of Bingen   Pope Urban II   Vladimir I
1100s Crusades: Kingdom of Heaven; Ivanhoe (Scott); The Lion in Winter   El Cid   Richard the Lionhearted   Philip II of France   Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor   Giotto di Bondone   Yaroslav I the Wise
1200s Late Middle Ages, Mongol invasions: Pillars of the Earth; Braveheart; Here be Dragons   Alfonso VIII   William Wallace   Eleanor of Aquitaine   Albertus Magnus   Marco Polo File:Monkh statue.JPG Möngke Khan
1300s Black Plague: World Without End; A Knight's Tale; Katherine (novel) Alfonso XI   Geoffrey Chaucer Philip IV of France   Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor   Dante Alighieri   Alexander Nevsky
1400s: "Why/How did Europe come to make settlements in the Americas?" Discovery of the Americas: 1492; The Other Boleyn Girl; The Messenger; The Passion of Joan of Arc; Magellan; The Sunne in Splendour   Isabella I of Castile   Henry VIII   Joan of Arc   Johannes Gutenberg   Christopher Columbus   Dmitry Donskoy
1500: "Why is Christianity split into Catholics and Protestants?" Protestant Reformation: Elizabeth; Luther   Hernán Cortés   Elizabeth I   Catherine de' Medici   Martin Luther   Leonardo da Vinci   Ivan III
1550: "Why is the international language English (instead of Spanish)?" Protestant Reformation: Agony & the Ecstasy; Dangerous Beauty   Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor   Shakespeare   Louis XIV   Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor   Michelangelo   Ivan the Terrible
1600: "Why are most Western countries democratic?" Age of Enlightenment: Cromwell; The Last Valley   Diego Velázquez   Oliver Cromwell   Cardinal Richelieu   Johannes Kepler   Galileo Galilei   Michael Romanov
1650: "Why has rationality replaced religion in Western philosophy?" Age of Enlightenment: Don Quixote; Captain Blood; The Girl with a Peal Earring; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor   Miguel de Cervantes   Blackbeard   René Descartes   Bach   Artemisia Gentileschi   Peter the Great
1700: "How did Europe come to colonize the rest of the world?" Industrial Revolution: Barry Lyndon; Tale of Two Cities; Amadeus; Scarlett Empress; Catherine the Great; Four Seasons   Lope de Vega   Isaac Newton   Maximilien Robespierre   Mozart   Antonio Vivaldi   Catherine the Great
1750: "Why are most Western countries capitalist?" Industrial Revolution: Goya's Ghosts; Madness of King George; Marie Antoinette; Immortal Beloved; Cassanova; Symphony No.9; (Yemelyan Pugachev)   Francisco Goya   Adam Smith   Marie Antoinette   Beethoven   Giacomo Casanova   Yekaterina Dashkova
1800: "Why is the international language English (instead of French)?" European Imperialism: Sorcerer's Apprentice; The Barber of Seville   Rosalía de Castro   Isambard Kingdom Brunel   Napoleon   Johann von Goethe   Gioachino Rossini   Leo Tolstoy
1850: "How do we know about evolution?" European Imperialism: Nutcracker; War & Peace; How Green Was My Valley; Great Train Robbery; Waterloo; (Mikhail Glinka), (Karl Briullov)   Charles Darwin   Alexandre Dumas   Karl Marx   Giuseppe Garibaldi   Alexander Pushkin
1875: "Why haven't there been more plagues lately?" European Imperialism: (Peter Tchaikovsky)   Benito Pérez Galdós   Queen Victoria   Louis Pasteur   Otto von Bismark   Camillo di Cavour   Anna Pavlova

Western Civilization: the Last Hundred Years

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Year Era Spain England France Germany Italy Russia
1910s: "What was the Cold War about?" WWI: Paths to Glory (Kubrick); All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque); Wind that Shakes the Barley; Michael Collins; Doctor Zhivago; Reds; Nicholas and Alexandra   Antoni Gaudí Michael Collins (Irish leader)   Claude Monet   Sigmund Freud   Maria Montessori Vladimir Lenin
1920s: "When did women get political rights?" Women's suffrage movement: 1812 Overture, (Natalia Goncharova)   Pablo Picasso   Emmeline Pankhurst   Marie Curie   Albert Einstein Anna Maria Mozzoni   Igor Stravinsky
1930s Fascism & Communism   Santiago Ramón y Cajal   Alexander Fleming   Marcel Proust Anne Frank   Guglielmo Marconi  Sergey Korolyov
1940s WWII: Battle of Britain (film); Winds of War; Schindler's List (film); Maus; Downfall (film); Mussolini: The Untold Story (film); Stalin (film); Stalingrad (film)   Francisco Franco   Churchill   Charles de Gaulle   Adolf Hitler   Mussolini   Stalin
1950s Cold War Sara Montiel Alan Turing   Albert Camus   Konrad Adenauer   Sophia Loren   Nikita Khrushchev
1960s Decolonization   Salvador Dalí Francis Crick Édith Piaf   Willy Brandt   Aldo Moro   Yuri Gagarin
1970s Adolfo Suarez   John Lennon   Charles Aznavour   Wernher von Braun   Federico Fellini   Alla Pugacheva
1980s End of the Cold War   Juan Carlos I   Margaret Thatcher   François Mitterrand   Helmut Kohl   Giorgio Armani   Gorbachev
1990s Growth of the EU   Penélope Cruz   Princess Diana   Zinedine Zidane   Steffi Graf Roberto Baggio   Boris Yeltsin
2000s   Rafael Nadal   J. K. Rowling   Jacques Chirac   Angela Merkel   Luciano Pavarotti   Vladimir Putin
2010s   Rafael Nadal   Lakshmi Mittal   Bernard Arnault   Angela Merkel   Luciano Pavarotti   Vladimir Putin

World History: Ancient Civilizations

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Year Ancient China Ancient India Ancient Mesopotamia & Ancient Iran Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome
2000s BC Sargon of Akkad Menes, Khufu
1000s BC King Wu of Zhou, Zhou Dynasty Indus Valley Civilization; Vedic civilization Hammurabi of Babylonia; Zoroaster Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tut, Ramesses II
800BC Zhou Dynasty Magna Graecia, Founding of Rome
600BC Laozi, Zhou Dynasty Magadha Empire Ashurbanipal, Assyrian Empire; Nebuchadnezzar II, Neo-Babylonian Empire Ashurbanipal of Assyria Founding of the Roman Republic
400BC Confucius, Zhou Dynasty Buddha; Magadha Empire Achaemenid Empire: Cyrus the Great, Darius I, & Xerxes Cincinnatus, Roman Republic
200BC Mencius Ashoka the Great, Maurya Empire Alexander the Great vs Darius III of the Achaemenid Empire Alexander the Great Punic Wars, rapid growth of the Roman Republic
0 Emperor Wu of Han, Han Dynasty Maurya Empire Mithridates I of Parthia, Parthian Empire Cleopatra Caesar & Augustus: Roman Republic turns into Roman Empire
200AD Cai Lun, Han Dynasty Satavahana dynasty Ardashir I, Sassanid Empire Trajan & Diocletian Trajan & Diocletian, Roman Empire
400AD Zu Chongzhi Chandragupta II, Gupta Empire Bahram V, Sassanid Empire Constantine Constantine; Fall of the Roman Empire
600AD Wu Zetian Aryabhata, Gupta Empire Khosrau I, Sassanid Empire Justinian


World History: the Last Thousand Years

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Year China India Iran Turkey Egypt Nigeria South Africa Mexico Brazil
500   Wu Zetian   Aryabhata Mohammad Mohammad, (Umar), (Ali) Mohammad (Ghana Empire) Maya civilization
1000   Emperor Renzong Raja Raja Chola I   Abu Nawas Byzantine Empire   Harun al-Rashid (Ghana Empire) Maya civilization
1100s   Zhu Xi Rajendra Chola I Omar Khayyam Byzantine Empire Saladin
1200s   Ghenghis Khan   Ghenghis Khan Rumi Byzantine Empire Baibars Ife Kingdom
1300s   Zheng He   Amir Khusrow Rashid-al-Din Hamadani   Osman I Mamluk Sultanate (Mali Empire)   Acamapichtli
1400s   Yongle Emperor   Timur   Timur   Mehmed II Mamluk Sultanate (Songhai Empire)   Ahuitzotl   Pedro Álvares Cabral
1500s: Aztec   Wanli Emperor   Akbar the Great   Ismail I   Selim I   Selim I (Songhai Empire)   Moctezuma II   José de Anchieta
1600s: Caribean   Kangxi Emperor   Nur Jahan   Abbas I of Persia   Suleiman the Magnificent   Suleiman the Magnificent Oyo Empire   Jan van Riebeeck   Hernán Cortés Zumbi
1700s   Qianlong Emperor   Robert Clive   Nader Shah Patrona Halil   Napoleon Usman dan Fodio   Shaka   Miguel Hidalgo   Tiradentes
1800s: (Simón Bolívar)   Empress Dowager Cixi   Lakshmibai   Naser al-Din Shah   Abdulhamid II   Mehmet Ali   Jaja of Opobo   Cecil Rhodes   Benito Juárez   Pedro II of Brazil

World History: the Last Hundred Years

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Year Indonesia Japan China India Iran Turkey Egypt Nigeria Mexico Brazil
1910s   Empress Dowager Cixi Bhagat Singh   Mohammad Ali Shah   Abdul Hamid II   Saad Zaghlul   Frederick Lugard   Emiliano Zapata   Machado de Assis
1920s: Attaturk & the End of the Ottoman Empire   Sun Yat-sen Ambedkar Reza Shah Mustafa Kemal   Hoda Shaarawi   Herbert Macaulay   Louis Botha   Pancho Villa Alberto Santos-Dumont
1930s: Chinese civil war, Indian independence movement   Lu Xun   Gandhi Sabiha Gökçen Hassan al-Banna (Yoruba people)   Jan Smuts   Diego Rivera   Getúlio Vargas
1940s: WWII, Chinese revolution, Indian independence   Chiang Kai-shek   Jawaharlal Nehru Mohammad Reza Pahlavi   İsmet İnönü   Naguib Mahfouz (Igbo people) Hendrik Verwoerd Frida Kahlo   Heitor Villa-Lobos
1950s: The Cold War, Partition of India Mao Naushad Mohammad Mosaddeq Adnan Menderes   Nasser   Chinua Achebe Steve Biko Octavio Paz   João Gilberto
1960s   Jiang Qing   Indira Gandhi   Googoosh Leyla Gencer   Umm Kulthum Nnamdi Azikiwe Christiaan Barnard   Carlos Fuentes   Candido Portinari
1970s   Deng Xiaoping Lata Mangeshkar Hayedeh   Bülent Ecevit   Anwar Sadat Fela Kuti   Desmond Tutu   Carlos Santana   Roberto Carlos (singer)
1980s: Iran's Islamic Revolution; Whale Rider; A Thousand Spendid Suns; Beast of War; Afghan Breakdown; 9th Company; Yacoubian Building; Cry Freedom; Invictus; Innocent Voices; Salvador; Under Fire   Andy Lau   Indira Gandhi Khomeini Kenan Evren   Adel Emam   Wole Soyinka Brenda Fassie   Santo   Pele
1990s: Kite Runner; Paradise Now; We Wish to Inform You; Hotel Rwanda; Maria Full of Grace; Y Tu Mama Tambien Jiang Zemin Shahrukh Khan File:Ali Khamenei,.jpg Khamenei   Tarkan File:Amrbw.jpg Amr Diab Hakeem Olajuwon Nelson Mandela   Carlos Slim   Paulo Coelho
2000s: Monsoon Wedding; English, August; Slumdog Millionaire; House of Saddam; Syriana; Blood Diamond; City of God; Sin Nombre Hu Jintao   Sachin Tendulkar   Shirin Ebadi   Recep Tayyip Erdoğan   Hosni Mubarak   Olusegun Obasanjo Brenda Fassie   Enrique Iglesias Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
2010s: Lata Mangeshkar, Eike Batista, Mukesh Ambani   Zhang Yimou   A. R. Rahman   Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mohamed ElBaradei Goodluck Jonathan Jacob Zuma Felipe Calderón   Dilma Rousseff