Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame includes a built-in ‘time machine’ that you can use to see, hear, and experience the past! The time machine is a fun "to do" list containing recommendations for 461 books, 600 movies, 217 songs, and 155 places to visit. It will take a lifetime to experience everything this book has to offer!

Everything on the list is content-rated to help parents and teachers make appropriate choices for young adult readers.

Here are some samples from the list in the book:
Time Travel
  1. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
  2. The Time Machine (1960)
  3. Somewhere in Time (1980)
  4. Back to the Future (1983)
  5. The Grand Tour (1992)
  6. ...plus 40 more!

Space Exploration

  1. War of the Worlds (1953)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  3. The Right Stuff (1983)
  4. Apollo 13 (1995)
  5. October Sky (1999)
  6. ...plus 41 more!
Immigration
  1. I Remember Mama (1948)
  2. America, America (1963)
  3. Hester Street (1975)
  4. Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
  5. Avalon (1990)
  6. ...plus 28 more!
World War I
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  2. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
  3. The Dawn Patrol (1938)
  4. Sergeant York (1941)
  5. Paths of Glory (1957)
  6. ...plus 31 more!
The Great Depression
  1. Of Mice and Men (1939)
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  3. The Homecoming (1971)
  4. Paper Moon (1973)
  5. King of the Hill (1993)
  6. ...plus 31 more!
Being American
  1. America (1924)
  2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  3. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  4. Johnny Tremain (1957)
  5. America's Heart & Soul (2004)
  6. ...plus 14 more!
Invention
  1. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
  2. Edison, The Man (1940)
  3. Tucker, The Man and His Dream (1988)
  4. Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
  5. They Made America (2004)
  6. ...plus 24 more!
World War II: Europe
  1. The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
  2. To Hell and Back (1955)
  3. The Longest Day (1962)
  4. The Big Red One (1980)
  5. Band of Brothers (2002)
  6. ...plus 52 more!
World War II: The Holocaust
  1. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  2. The Sorrow and the Pity (1970)
  3. Shoah (1985)
  4. Schindler's List (1993)
  5. The Last Days (1999)
  6. ...plus 32 more!
World War II: Pacific
  1. Wake Island (1942)
  2. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
  3. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  4. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. ...plus 41 more!
World War II: Homefront
  1. Women in Defense (1941)
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  3. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
  4. Home Front U.S.A. (1998)
  5. Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (2002)
  6. ...plus 15 more!
Athletes and Sports
  1. Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
  2. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  3. Brian's Song (1971)
  4. Remember the Titans (2000)
  5. Miracle (2004)
  6. ...plus 34 more!
Medicine
  1. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
  2. Threshold (1981)
  3. 1918 (1984)
  4. Awakenings (1990)
  5. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
  6. ...plus 27 more!
War on Terror
  1. Raid on Entebbe (1977)
  2. On Wings of Eagles (1986)
  3. Sword of Gideon (1986)
  4. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
  5. 9/11 (2002)
  6. ...plus 35 more!
Character
  1. High Noon (1952)
  2. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
  3. Lilies of the Field (1963)
  4. Stand and Deliver (1987)
  5. The Straight Story (1999)
  6. ...plus 42 more!
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Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame:
The History Book with a Message for Today's Young Americans