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Moving Histories

Moving Histories

Written 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
  • Tony

    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
  • The Odyssey

    The Odyssey
    Jul 30 2026

    Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings one of history's oldest stories to the screen, but what does it reveal about myth, memory, and historical storytelling? Joined by renowned classicist Monica Cyrino, we explore Nolan's adaptation, revisit the ideas from our Oppenheimer episode about Nolan as a historian, and discuss why Homer continues to shape cinema nearly three thousand years later.
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    58 mins
  • 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
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