First book of its kind, A CRITICAL HISTORY OF HISTORY ON FILM, traces attempts  to put historical topics on screen in the United States and Great Britain, from the silent film era to the modern electronic age.  Developments are explained in terms of changes in social, cultural, economic and technological factprs.     The author also discusses the products of the eras in terms of their ethical implications and concludes that because visual presentations of historical topics are now the principal mode of understanding for much of the electorate, film makers have a moral obligations to support the needs of the citizenry of democratic societies for meaningful information by not  knowingly distort the principal objective of historical analysis; to tell the story of what really happened.  

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