Historical Film Analysis

Select a film about a person, event, issue, or idea relevantto the timespan of this course:

1. Research your subject using primary and secondary sources.
2. Write an essay that analyzes and evaluates how the portrayal of your subject in that film compares to the historical record of your subject.
3. Conclude your analysis with an assessment of the films educational valueeven if it is not historically accurate. Be sure to address whether the film challenges your thinkingi.e., whether it provokes you to think in a new way, or helps you to understand something more thoroughly than you did before.

Recommended films for review are: 55 Days at Peking (1953), ARoyal Affair (2012), Amadeus (1984), AmazingGrace (2006), Another Country (1984), Belle (2013), BreakerMorant (1980), Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006), CardinalRichelieu (1935), Chasing the Deer (1994), Creation (2009), Cromwell (1970), Daens (1992), Girlwith a Pearl Earring (2003), Goyas Ghosts (2006), LadyCaroline Lamb (1972), Marie Antoinette (2006), MichaelCollins (1996), Modern Times (1936), Mountainsof the Moon (1990), One Nation, One King (2018), Pathsof Glory (1957), Peter the Great (1986), Quills (2000), RobRoy (1995), Schindlers List (1993), TheDeluge (1974), The Duellists (1977), TheKings Choice (2016), The Libertine (2004), TheMadness of King George (1994), The Mission (1986), TheNew World (2005), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006), ThereBe Dragons (2011), To Kill a King (2003), Waterloo (1970), WitchfinderGeneral (1968), Zulu (1964).

Essay is to be two (2) to three (3) pages in length,typed in size 12 Times New Roman fonts, and double-spaced.