Let’s go to the movies!

Do we watch films in history classes?
Yes - films in history teaching can be fantastic resources. 

No - they are often fiction and of no real learning value in the classroom, except as relief lessons or on Friday afternoons!

Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between these. 

Do students need to see the entire film? Would it be more useful as a secondary source and more engaging to watch a number of short films or extracts from films?

How do teachers analyse film in an engaging way with students without it becoming a cloze exercise using blackline masters?

The following website contains some great ideas for using film as evidence and to provide different perspectives on what is being studies.

http://www.filmeducation.org/resources/secondary/  

and this one:

http://humanitiesastwiltshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/history-video-and-film-clips-online.html

and this one is all Australian films and excerpts from film:

http://aso.gov.au/education