History
Looking for an exciting way to bring history to life for your students? You can do just that, with our school screenings of a range of films relevant to the KS3 curriculum and GCSE/A Level exam specifications. Films are available to book for private hires weekday mornings (subject to availability with a start time of 10:00 or 10:30).
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We are able to book many other films that are not listed here. If you have a film you would like to watch, please get in touch via the request form to arrange a screening for your class.
Paths of Glory (PG)
Director: Stanley Kubrick. USA. 1957. 87 mins.
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Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. A fiery Kirk Douglas stars as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. This haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity for dehumanisation is assembled with its legendary director’s customary precision, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its gripping courtroom climax to its ravaging final scene.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History, Film and Media
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Darkest Hour (12A)
Director: Joe Wright. UK. 2017. 125 mins.
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a sceptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Dunkirk (12A)
Director: Christopher Nolan. UK. 2017. 107 mins.
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From the perspectives of land, air, and sea, Christopher Nolan’s visionary film gives you the visceral experience of a key moment in British history. In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.
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Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History, Film and Media
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Alone In Berlin (12A)
Director: Vincent Perez. UK. 2016. 103 mins.
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Berlin 1940. The city is paralyzed by fear. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class couple living in a shabby apartment block trying, like everyone else, to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when their only child is killed fighting at the front, their loss drives them to an extraordinary act of resistance. They start to drop anonymous postcards all over the city attacking Hitler and his regime. If caught, it means certain execution.​ Adapted from the best selling novel of the same name by Hans Fallada.
Suitability: KS3, KS4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Geography
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
Hidden Figures (PG)
Director: Theodore Melfi. USA. 2017. 126 mins.
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Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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Suitability: KS 2- KS4 | Subjects: History, Citizenship, Maths, Science and Engineering
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
I Am Not Your Negro (12A)
Director: Raoul Peck. USA. 2016. 92 mins.
Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and a flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History, English
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
Selma (12A)
Director: Ava DuVernay. USA. 2014. 125 mins.
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Ava DuVernay's critically acclaimed film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
Viceroy's House (12A)
Director: Gurinder Chadha. UK. 2017. 106 mins.
Viceroy’s House, starring Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Gillian Anderson (X-Files) and released nationwide on March 3rd tells the remarkable true story of the final months of British rule in India. Upstairs the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and the political elite – Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi - battle out the best decision for an independent India, while downstairs 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants face an uncertain future at the end of an empire.
Suitability: KS3, KS4 | Subjects: History, Geography
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Peterloo (12A)
Director: Ava DuVernay. USA. 2014. 125 mins.
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Ava DuVernay's critically acclaimed film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
Mary Queen of Scots (12A)
Director: Ava DuVernay. USA. 2014. 125 mins.
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Ava DuVernay's critically acclaimed film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
The Breadwinner (12A)
Director: Ava DuVernay. USA. 2014. 125 mins.
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Ava DuVernay's critically acclaimed film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Selma tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
5 Broken Cameras (15)
Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi. Palestine/Israel. 2012. 94mins.
When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, Emad, a Palestinian farmer, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and Emad begins to record his village's resistance to the encroachment of Israeli settlements. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family, and one camera after another is shot at or smashed. Each of the 5 cameras tells part of his story.
Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).
Suffragette (12A)
Director: Sarah Gavron. UK. 2015. 106mins.
The inspiring history of Britain’s early feminist movement is powerfully recreated in Suffragette.
Carey Mulligan stars as Maud, a young factory worker who discovers the cause in the early 1900s, eventually becoming radicalised by a fierce world of hunger strikes, guerrilla tactics and brutal government reprisals. Suffragette is not just entertaining, but also vibrant with cultural relevance.
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Suitability: KS4, and AS/A2 | Subjects: History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff ( 1:10 ratio).