Filmography of World History

Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history Filmography of World History: A Select Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and analysis of over 300 historical films. A companion to Grant Tracey''s Filmography of American History this critical reference book selects movies that represent aspects of world history from the middle ages through the twentieth century. These films adopt as their subject a wide range of historical events people and societies of Africa Asia-Pacific Europe and Canada and Latin America. Films are arranged alphabetically with cross referencing by geographic area time period and five themes: History as Biography; Crossing Cultures; Civil International and Sectarian Conflict; Society: Modernization and Tradition; and Redefining Historical Narrative. Each film entry includes production data current U.S. home videodistributors geographical and time setting plot description and references to critical literature. Over half of the entries provide extended analysis of the historical interpretation the film brings to the screen. Filmography of World History argues for the potential of feature films to teach us about the past and its reconstruction in academe and popular culture.The book offers an historian''s perspective on films as varied as Ararat Black Rain Lin Zexu Saladin Winstanley Judgment at Nuremberg Distant Thunder The Official Story Cabeza de Vaca Newsfront Lumumba Daresalam and The Great White Man of Lambarn.