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
American Primeval
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John Trafton, Kim Nelson, and Robert Burgoyne
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Season 2
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Episode 9
In our latest episode, we dive into the Netflix series American Primeval, directed by Peter Berg and starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch. In light of recent assaults on educational institutions and the attempts to erase competing histories of America’s past, this episode and Berg’s series grapples with a complex and haunted past and present-day debates over national identity through a retelling of the 1857 Utah War.