Moving Histories

About Moving Histories

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 (https://archive.org/details/NineInchNailsGhostsI-ivMulti-trackStems), Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license

Publisher

John Trafton, Kim Nelson, and Robert Burgoyne

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Dec 2023

Latest episode

31 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Tony

   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 ...

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   The Odyssey

   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.

3. 

   27 May 2026

   Pressure (with special guest director Anthony Maras)

   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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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

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Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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