Year 11 Humanities - History: History through Film

Oppenheimer, Schindler's List, The Impossible, Lincoln, Hidden Figures, The Kings Speech, Thatcher, Midway, Mississippi Burning, Uproar. All films based (if not somewhat loosely) on actual historic events, but how much creative license do the film makers take? From who's perspective is the film told and does that change the way the story is told?  What can we read into the adaptations of these "historical" films?

In this course students will look at history through the lens of films and then use the historical skills we will develop to find out how wrong the movies really got it... or how much truth is actually in these films. Students will be given the opportunity to find films about historic events that interest them and then will develop a historic knowledge of the events that the film is based on. We will investigate and analyse the accuracy of the film and understand the causes, consequences and perspectives of the event and look at how they translate into the film. 

Historians are like detectives. We arrive on the scene after the event has taken place and have to look for evidence. Skills developed in History include research, processing and analysing information from a range of sources including photos, documents, video, cartoons and communicating information through arguing your case using the evidence you have collated. 

There maybe an opportunity to sit ONE internal assessment. 

This is a half year course and counts as one option course selection.