Introduction: Personal, Professional, and (a Little) Theoretical -- 1. History in images / History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film -- 2. The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age -- 3. Reds as History -- 4. The Good Fight: History, Memory, Documentary -- 5. JFK: Historical Fact / Historical Film -- 6. Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History -- 7. Sans Soleil: The Documentary as (Visionary) Truth -- 8. Re-visioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past -- 9. Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History -- 10. What You Think about When You Think about Writing a Book on History and Film.