Can History Be Learned By Watching Hollywood

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Can History Be Learned by Watching Hollywood Films? Hollywood films can be a great way to learn about the past, but how accurate are they? Can you actually find facts from the topic of the film? I believe that you can learn parts of history through watching Hollywood films and my reasons for believing that are: People are generally more engaged with motion pictures of topics then long text about the subject, some movies have great depictions of events that actually take place within our history, most of the movies you can depict what actually happened rather than the falsification they put within the film.

Within history classes around the world there are some that use films for historical events rather than reading text. Educators believe
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There are also those that nearly show you what happened on the battlefield, those are generally better for learning history. Movies can bring the most vivid images that almost make you feel like you were there. Having a real depiction of events are more helpful than trying to imagine what was happening at the given time. Some history films are about government rather than battle and you can really tell how the situation was through great interpretation. Films that don’t falsify our history are the best kinds of movies, because if they are untruthful your facts could be fiction. Based on films that teachers use to teach history there is less fiction and more of fact but you still have to watch out for what the producers could have thrown in the movie. Having a better depiction of the actual events creates more of a film that intrigues because of its true attributes, rather than the false ones. Actors are also a great key within the films truth, if great actors know what they are doing then the film should be as true as it can be but if actors don’t know about the events themselves how are they expected to portray what happened if they don’t know what happened. We found that when information portrayed by actors in the film was consistent with information in the text, watching the film clips increased correct recall by about 50 …show more content…
But that doesn’t mean that you can’t figure out what’s fact or fiction within your favorite history film. Using your memory and probably a computer you can figure out whether a scene or plot within a film has it reigning true or if it is just a whole lot of talk. Well that’s when you do some of your own researching even watching the film a second time through from a different perspective could even change how you perceived the events. You could see the movie as if you were on the “enemies” side or on the side that you weren’t on before. Imagine how they are perceiving this film for accuracy on what’s true or not because their events could be so much different than yours or how you learned what happened. Having your memory also have what you were originally taught could be wrong whether you’ve learned it from a film or Wikipedia. Wherever your history facts came from make sure that you aren’t the one that is wrong within your ideas. According to Jeromy Stoddard (William and Mary School of Education), His desire is to help teachers develop ways to use films to teach and to help children to interpret films and media-understanding that it has been dramatized. This is one of many ways that film’s falsification can and is identified within movies throughout history classroom across the