Helping pupils to view historical film critically
Primary History article
By Jane Card, published 9th May 2013
Pointing the view: Helping pupils to view historical film critically
Introduction: The teaching potential of film
Films about historical events seem like the nearest thing we can give our pupils to a time machine. In commercial film, the physical appearance of the past has often been carefully researched, thus a snippet from Gladiator, for example, can give pupils some idea of how the Roman army fought.
Film with varying degrees of historical content affords...
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