Moving Histories
Join film professors Kim Nelson, Robert Burgoyne, and John Trafton as they explore the films that connect us with the past.
Edited by Nick Hector, BFE CCE
Music by Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license
Moving Histories
Latest Episodes
Pressure (with special guest director Anthony Maras)
This week on Moving Histories, we sit down with director Anthony Maras to discuss his powerful new historical drama Pressure. Together, we explore how cinema can make history feel lived rather than merely observed, and why env...
The Secret Agent
In our latest episode, we unpack the Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Wagner Moura.
Death By Lightning
History usually remembers the rock stars—Lincoln, Washington, the giants—but Death by Lightning shifts the camera toward the hustlers, dreamers, and delusional outsiders who actually move the machinery of history. In this episode, we e...