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[title] image Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
It’s not often that a cinematic production is as intriguing on-screen as off, but the acclaimed period film Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) by director Marcel Carné is that rare breed. The film attempts to
[title] image Moneyball (2011)
Although its subject is one of the more interesting moments in recent sports history, Moneyball (2011) offers surprisingly little of that history. 
[title] image A Separation (2011)
A Separation is an Iranian drama directed by Asghar Farhadi. As is indicated by the title, the film focuses on the separation of Nader and Simin, an affluent couple residing in Tehran.
[title] image Footnote (2011)
Is family solidarity more important than academic fame? Is empiricism a better guide to historical truth than theory? Is intellectual self-esteem generated internally, or externally, by communal acknowledgment?
[title] image Camila (1984)
Romeo and Juliet may be the most well known tale of star-crossed lovers, but ask any Argentine and they will know the story of Camila O’Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez just as well.
[title] image J. Edgar (2011)
Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood presents a biopic of one of the most powerful and controversial figures of twentieth-century America in the film J. Edgar.
[title] image Two documentaries on Guatemala's violent civil war
Discovering Dominga (2003), directed by Patricia Flynn
[title] image Amigo (2011)
As an historian of American empire at the turn of the last century, I am constantly surprised by the number of people who have never heard that the United States annexed the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1899.  When I tell people about my research, they often have no idea this nation was in fact a formal empire from 1899 until 1946, when the Philippines achieved independence.
[title] image Sankofa (1993)
 In this 1993 film by Ethiopian-born filmmaker Haile Gerima, a modern-day,  fashion model is transported to the past to experience the traumas of American chattel slavery.
[title] image Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)
   This film tells the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 Virginia slave revolt.
[title] image The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
In 1938, Warner Brothers released a movie destined to become a classic.  The Adventures of Robin Hood starred Errol Flynn, the greatest action hero of his generation, in top swashbuckling form.
[title] image World War II Films from the Normandy Scholar Program
The films shown in connection with the Normandy Scholar Program, 2011.
[title] image Life and Nothing But (1989)
French historians love this film.  It’s hard to convey the horrors of what was long called The Great War
[title] image The Help
Historical films and books always distort the historical record for dramatic purposes. Sometimes that doesn't matter and sometimes it does. The Help, a best-selling book and now a film playing nationwide, elicited this statement from the Association of Black Women Historians.