CCA IV: History on Film

March 2 - March 6, 2025

Individual lives and events in history have always been a favorite subject of filmmakers. This fourth and final CCA of the 2024-2025 academic year will consider four history-based films and what they have to teach us.

Attendance of the CCA seminars is by invitation only. To view a livestream of the lectures, go to livestream.hillsdale.edu.

Schedule

March 2

3:30 p.m.

Showing of Reagan
(dir. Sean McNamara; 2024, 135 minutes)

March 2

8:00 p.m.

“The Ronald Reagan I Knew”

Kenneth L. Khachigian
Author, Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon

March 3

4:00 p.m.

Showing of October Sky
(dir. Joe Johnston; 1999, 108 minutes)

March 3

8:00 p.m.

“NASA and the Movies”

Homer Hickam
Author, Rocket Boys

March 4

3:00 p.m.

Showing of A Bridge Too Far
(dir. Richard Attenborough; 1977, 175 minutes)

March 4

8:00 p.m.

“World War II on Film”

Victor Davis Hanson
Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College

March 5

3:30 p.m.

Showing of Chariots of Fire
(dir. Hugh Hudson; 1981, 125 minutes)

March 5

8:00 p.m.

“Character in the Olympics Then and Now”

Titus Techera American
Cinema Foundation

March 6

4:00 p.m.

Faculty Roundtable

Thomas I. Treloar, Chairman
Darryl G. Hart
Daniel O'Toole
Michael Tripepi

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