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Moonlight: Crash Course Film Criticism
Moonlight is a hard-edged yet beautifully made story about a black American dealing with his sexuality in a sometimes unforgiving and violent world. Its director, Barry Jenkins, uses every trick in the filmmaking book to put us in the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Colin Campbell - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Ira Harvaky
COLIN CAMPBELL is a writer and director for theater and film. The short film he wrote and directed with his beautiful and talented wife, Seraglio, was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Chapman University...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alex Kotlowitz - Teachers Make a Difference - Studs Terkel
For forty years, Alex Kotlowitz has been telling stories from the heart of America, deeply intimate tales of struggle and perseverance. He is the author of four books, including his most recent, An American Summer: Love...
The Cynical Historian
12 Years a Slave | Based on a True Story
The venerable movie, 12 Years a Slave, is based off of the 1853 memoir of the same name. Despite that, this movie still gets so much incorrect. Here's another Based on a True Story where Hollywood just cannot grasp its own material....
Curated Video
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Celebration
An evening of readings and discussion celebrating the life and work of Booker prize-winning novelist short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, filmed at the British Library on 3 July 2018....
The Cynical Historian
Pearl Harbor | Based on a True Story
Why do people hate Pearl Harbor (2001) so much more than anything else? Why are other movies this bad historically beloved classics to some people, whereas this movie is so easily relegated to the dustbin. If anything, I’d say it’s more...
The Cynical Historian
Patton | Based on a True Story
It’s finally time to review Patton! I have a lot to say about it, as you can tell by the time stamp. Way back when I started the Based on a True Story series, the second episode was a bit about what I considered to be the best ones - and...
The Cynical Historian
Silence (2016) | Based on a True Story
Silence has the makings of a good movie, but it bombed at the box office, and for a good reason. The plot is fascinating, and the history behind it is even more so. But the movie ended up being a boring mess. I think there is a gem...
The Cynical Historian
Charlie Wilson's War | Based on a True Story
The movie Charlie Wilson’s War gets its own title incorrect. It is about something that was not so much Wilson’s War, so much as Reagan’s War, but the movie simply wants to deny that altogether....
The Cynical Historian
Into the Wild | Based on a True Story
The Cynical Historian
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Based on a True Story
Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this episode. Gotoref='https://skl.sh/thecynicalhistorian4' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Goto to get a 2-month free trial George Roy Hill and William Goldman, the director and writer, were more...
The Cynical Historian
Bridge of Spies | Based on a True Story
Last year’s Bridge of Spies would have been so much better if it were historically accurate. If you saw this and thought it was boring, that’s the real reason why. The problem is, it could have been better if it were more historically...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Colin Campbell - Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose
COLIN CAMPBELL is a writer and director for theater and film. The short film he wrote and directed with his beautiful and talented wife, Seraglio, was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell teaches screenwriting at Chapman University...
Curated Video
Developing reading preferences in Year 5 through text recommendations
Pupil outcome: I can make recommendations to other readers. Key learning points: - Texts can be recommended in a variety of ways, including online via Book Award websites or blogs. - Reflecting on likes, dislikes, puzzles and connections...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel Schacter - The Seven Sins of Memory
Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974 and received his PhD from the University of Toronto...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Jansen - Lessons from South Africa
Jonathan Jansen is Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, the MS degree from Cornell University, and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elijah Anderson - Code of the Street
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elijah Anderson - The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Orlando Patterson - Jamaica The Confounding Island
Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Teachers Make a Difference - Helene Iverson
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yong Zhao - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon
Yong Zhao currently serves as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Damon Centola - Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
Damon Centola is a Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group.
He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change....
He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change....