Historians At The Movies
Historians At The Movies features historians from around the world talking about your favorite movies and the history behind them. This isn't rivet-counting; this is fun. Eventually, we'll steal the Declaration of Independence.
Podcasting since 2022 • 132 episodes
Historians At The Movies
Latest Episodes
Episode 110: From the Vault: Die Hard Is More Than A Christmas Movie with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed and Dr. Craig Bruce Smith
This week we venture back to one of our earliest podcast episodes to talk about Die Hard with Annette Gordon-Reed and Craig Bruce Smith. We know Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but is it the quintessential 80s film? Find out when you listen in.&...
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Episode 109: How A Charlie Brown Christmas Almost Didn’t Happen with Dr. Blake Scott Ball
A Charlie Brown Christmas is undoubtedly in the pantheon of holiday tv shows. This week pop culture historian Blake Scott Ball drops in to talk about how that almost didn’t happen, as well as the politics of Peanuts in the 20th century.
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Episode 108: James Bond Is A Monk: The Name of the Rose with David Perry, Matthew Gabriele, and John Wyatt Greenlee
First the first time ever, HATM has a guest host! This week John Wyatt Greenlee steps on the other side of the mic to talk with David Perry and Matthew Gabriele about Sean Connery, Medieval detectives, and their new book, Oathbreakers: The ...
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Episode 107: Reality Bites, the Rise of Reality TV, and the 90s. Whatever. With Emily Nussbaum
This week Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum joins to talk about the 90s, Generation X, and the rise of reality television during our discussion of Reality Bites.About our guest:Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer for The New Yorker,...
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Episode 107
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Episode 106: We Watched Gladiator II So You Don’t Have To with Dr. Sarah Bond and Dr. Bret Devereaux
HOO BOY this week Roman historians Dr. Sarah Bond and Dr. Bret Deveraux drop in to talk about Ridley Scott's ode to his first film, uh, ancient Rome, Gladiator II. We talk about the legacy of the first film, our impressions of the new ...
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