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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
  • Pressure (with special guest director Anthony Maras)

    Pressure (with special guest director Anthony Maras)
    May 27 2026

    This week on Moving Histories, we sit down with director Anthony Maras to discuss his powerful new historical drama Pressure. Together, we explore how cinema can make history feel lived rather than merely observed, and why environment, atmosphere, and sensory experience matter just as much as events themselves when telling stories about the past.
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    54 mins
  • The Secret Agent

    The Secret Agent
    Apr 8 2026

    In our latest episode, we unpack the Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Wagner Moura.

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    58 mins
  • 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
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