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Moving Histories

Moving Histories

By: John Trafton Kim Nelson and Robert Burgoyne
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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

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Episodes
  • Death By Lightning

    Death By Lightning
    Mar 11 2026

    History usually remembers the rock stars—Lincoln, Washington, the giants—but Death by Lightning shifts the camera toward the hustlers, dreamers, and delusional outsiders who actually move the machinery of history. In this episode, we explore how the series turns the assassination of James Garfield into a strange and revealing thought experiment about fame, failure, and the fragile human ecosystem behind American history.
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    55 mins
  • The Testament of Ann Lee

    The Testament of Ann Lee
    Feb 18 2026

    History doesn’t sit still in The Testament of Ann Lee—it moves, sings, and repeats itself through bodies in motion. This week, we explore how belief becomes choreography and how cinema turns the past into a living performance.

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    56 mins
  • Nouvelle Vague

    Nouvelle Vague
    Jan 14 2026

    Listen as we explore Richard Linklater's latest film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's radical masterpiece Breathless.

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    1 hr
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