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Moving Histories

Moving Histories

By: John Trafton Kim Nelson and Robert Burgoyne
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Summary

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
  • You Can See Everything
    Nov 11 2026

    Can a documentary reveal the truth about someone who has made a career out of deception? This week on Moving Histories, John, Kim, and Robert explore Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything, a provocative documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that blurs the boundaries between observation, performance, and manipulation. From the psychology of corporate fraud to the aesthetics of surveillance and reenactment, we ask whether seeing everything really means understanding anything—and what happens when the filmmaker becomes part of the story.

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    57 mins
  • Tenzing
    Oct 28 2026

    This week on Moving Histories, we're heading to the top of the world with Jennifer Peedom's Tenzing, a historical drama about Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's historic 1953 ascent of Mount Everest.

    We discuss the politics of exploration, Sherpa identity, and the role of the sublime in historical cinema. We also revisit Peedom's documentary Sherpa (2015) to explore how documentary and narrative filmmaking offer different ways of experiencing and understanding history.

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    58 mins
  • Tony
    Aug 31 2026

    What happens when a historical film tries to explain Anthony Bourdain before he became Anthony Bourdain? This week on Moving Histories, John , Robert Burgoyne, and Kim discuss Matt Johnson’s Tony and how the film to explores history, memory, place, and, of course, food. We also ask a more fundamental question: does Tony actually illuminate the person Bourdain became, or does knowing that person make the film seem more meaningful than it really is? Suffice it to say, the three of us have some thoughts.

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    53 mins
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