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Chan is Missing (1982)
The Public Historian: Quilombola Seeds
Screening Vietnam: First Blood and Jaws
Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos
Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)
Historical Perspectives on Isao Takahata’s Grave of Fireflies
Colón 2000: Tour Guides, Cruiseships, and Tourists in Panama
Historical Perspectives on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013)
Has Texas Seen its Last Liberal?
I am Tourism/Yo Soy Turismo
“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”
I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)
42 (2013)
The Sapphires (2012)
Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind “Les Misérables” (2012)
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)
Elevate (2012)
What’s Missing from ‘Argo’ (2012)
A Historian Views Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012)
The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”
For Greater Glory (2012)
Film Review – Baseball by the Numbers: Moneyball (2011)
Film Review – A Separation (2011)
Footnote (2011)
Camila (1984)
J. Edgar (2011)
Two documentaries on Guatemala’s violent civil war
Film Review – Amigo (2011)
Sankofa (1993)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
The Help
Day of Wrath (1943)
Hollywood’s Brazil: Rio (2011)
Death and Decadence: Vatel (2000)
Everyday Crimes: The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Small Towns and Big Dreams
Thurgood (2011)
Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)
I am Twenty (1961, released 1964)
Cynical Realism: Miller’s Crossing by Joel and Ethan Coen (1990)
The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba
