motion pictures and history

Profiles the film "High Noon," which waswritten and produ ced at the height of the Hollywood blacklist.

The author, the granddaughter of Abraham Zapruder, reflects on her unique family story behind the Zapruder film, which captured the Kennedy assassination, and whose footage has had a lasting impact on the world.

Presents reproducible worksheets and activities designed to help teachers improve their students' critical thinking skills using a wide range of film and video resources.

Explores how films have been made and used as a way to record and remember history, evaluating the many ways filmmakers, promoters, viewers, and scholars understand films as history.

Studies the way in which the makers of commercial movies have dealt with history, focusing on eight films about real people and real situations from America's past, including "Mississippi Burning," "JFK," "Bonnie and Clyde," and "Norma Rae.".

A collection of essays that explore how Hollywood films have been used to highlight key events, themes, and policies that have influenced American culture.