Many of our classes feature an important film component. Generally speaking, we look to films not as an open window upon the past, but as the reflection of historical memory. What follows is a sampling of some of the films we show in some of our classes. For more information about films goto IMDB.com.

History 101 - Latin American Popular Culture (Berger)
Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business
Holiday in Mexico
Like Water for Chocolate
Buena Vista Social Club
Black Orpheus
Danzon

History 101 - U.S. and Latin America (Berger)
The Three Caballeros
Saludos Amigos
Bananas
Viva Zapata!
Four Days in September
Traffic

History 101 - The Frontier (Roche)
High Noon
The Searchers
Fort Apache
Silverado
Blazing Saddles

History 101 - The Sixties (Roche)
Berkeley in the 1960s
Forest Gump
Malcolm X
Hair

History, 101 - Crime and Punishment in European History (Shaya)
From Hell
The Judge and the Assassin
M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)
Judgement at Nuremberg

History 101, Terror, Anarchy, and Political Violence in 19th and 20th c. Europe (Shaya)
Marianne and Julianne
Love and Anarchy

Shaya, History 109, Western Civilization Since 1600
The Tempest
Ridicule
Madame Bovary
The Blue Angel
Dr. Strangelove

History 208, Europe 1890-1945 (Shaya)
Night and Fog
Paths of Glory
Liberty for Us!
Andalusian Dog
Triumph of the Will

History 215 - Colonial Latin America (Berger)
Popol Vuh
The Mission
Quilombo
Cabeza de Vaca

History 216 - Modern Latin America (Berger)
Camila
Men with Guns
Amores Perros
Fidel
Before Night Falls
The Official Story

History 223 - Modern France (Shaya)
Germinal
Grand Illusion
The Sorrow and the Pity
My American Uncle
Chocolat
Hate

History 239 - US since 1945 (Roche)
Dazed and Confused
Atomic Café
Gimme Shelter
Berkeley in the 1960s