HIST 4303: Film and History

Specific films or genres or directors of interest this term. (Some might be easy to find, some difficult.)

• Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993): WT has this streaming from Swank through October 2023.
• Sunshine (Istvan Szabo, 2000)
• Col. Redl (Istvan Szabo, 1985) 
• The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar, 1965)
• The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 
• German expressionism
• Film noir
  • Double Indemnity: WT has this streaming from Swank through October 2023.
  • Blade Runner: WT has this streaming from Swank through January 2024.
• Czech New Wave
• Biopic 
• Historical film: WWI
• Historical film: Holocaust
• Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
• Istvan Szabo (Hungary)
• Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia)
• Wes Anderson 
• Agnieszka Holland
• Simon Curtis