Friday, September 19 2025, 6 - 8pm Balcony Theatre (Room 400), Fine Arts Building How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film. This month, the History Film Series is screening A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl. 104 min. Rated PG. Fantasy romantic drama. Starring David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring. Free and open to the university community. Refreshments will be available. Introduction and Q&A with Professor Chris Sieving, Associate Professor of Theatre and Film Studies. Presented by the UGA Department of History, UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies, the History Graduate Student Association, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Please contact Chris Choe (hcc03223@uga.edu) with any questions. Christopher Sieving Department of Theatre and Film Chris Sieving Profile
