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✍️ "The Order" (2024) is the is the Featured Film Blog of the month for November, for its theme of Extremism, Manhunts & Media Responsibility...
✍️ "The Order" (2024) is the is the Featured Film Blog of the month for November, for its theme of Extremism, Manhunts & Media Responsibility...
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🎥 Robert Redford didn’t just star in great films — he made space for great filmmakers.

✍🏻 Our new post revisits ten defining works that capture his artistry, activism, and the creation of Sundance.

🎞️ Read the full tribute → MoviesToHistory.com

#RobertRedford

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Charles Robert Redford Jr., the Oscar-winning actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, passed away September 16, 2025 at the age of 89. A pioneering force in American cinema for mor...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🎬 Robert Redford’s legacy runs deeper than “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men.”

He built Sundance to give new storytellers a voice — and changed film forever.

🎥 Read our full In Memoriam and filmography tribute: moviestohistory.com/a-visionary-...

#RobertRedford
A Visionary for the Independence of Film…
Charles Robert Redford Jr., the Oscar-winning actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, passed away September 16, 2025 at the age of 89. A pioneering force in American cinema for mor...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🇺🇸 Faith. Fear. False Flags.

🗓️ This month we’re dissecting “The Order” (2024) — where Jude Law’s “priest” isn’t what he seems — and “Manhunt: Deadly Games,” the true story of the falsely accused Atlanta bombing hero.

✍🏻 New deep dives every week at MoviesToHistory.com.
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
🇺🇸 “FEAR. FAITH. FALSE FLAGS.”

🗓️ November dives into two stories where terror met truth:

🎥 The Order (2024)
📺 Manhunt: Deadly Games (2020)

✍🏻 New analyses every Mon/Wed/Fri →
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#MoviesToHistory #ReelVsReal #FilmAnalysis #TrueCrimeHistory
November 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🙏 Faith. Power. Doubt. Redemption.

🎬 This October, “Under the Banner of Heaven” leads my Top Ten Religious Series — a look at how TV dares to question belief, expose corruption, and search for grace.

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October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
🎬 Andrew Garfield’s performance in “Under the Banner of Heaven” walks that razor-thin line. In his Good Morning America interview, he revealed how he prepared to play a Mormon detective whose spiritual certainty unravels amid a brutal investigation.

🔗 moviestohistory.com/under-the-ba...
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When Andrew Garfield appeared on Good Morning America in April 2022, it wasn’t just another press stop — it was a thoughtful exploration of what it means to play faith on the edge of fracture. Promoti...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
🌍 Cinema has no borders — only stories that travel.

🎬 From "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to "City of God," from "Roma" to "Anatomy of a Fall," these ten films prove that truth and art speak every language.

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To commemorate the Featured Film Blog of the month for October, I'm Still Here, I have gathered My Top Ten International Movies! If you're looking for the best international film to watch, you came to...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🇧🇷 From Memory to Movie

🎬 In this behind-the-scenes interview from sonyclassics, the stars of Brazil’s Oscar-winning “I’m Still Here” (2024) — Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello — open up about portraying the real-life Paiva family and confronting the haunting legacy of Brazil’s military dictatorship
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
🎞️ “Research Like a Historian” — a new Reel from @movies_to_history.

🔍 Learn how historians separate artistic storytelling from archival truth.

📜 Because understanding what’s fictionalized is part of understanding what’s real.

#ReelVsReal #FilmHistory #CriticalViewing
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🇺🇸🇧🇷 What links an Utah courtroom in 1984 to a Brazilian dictatorship in 1968?

📜 Both show what happens when belief hardens into law.

✍🏻 New on MoviesToHistory.com

🧾 Source Notes: Brazil’s Dictatorship & The Lafferty Case -

🔗 moviestohistory.com/source-notes...
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🎬 From “When They See Us” to “Dahmer” — true crime cinema walks a moral tightrope.

🎞️ When real pain becomes plot, ethics become everything.

❓Where’s the line between empathy and exploitation?

🎬 @MoviesToHistory | #TrueCrimeEthics #FilmVsFact

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October 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🎬 When filmmakers dramatize real tragedy, they don’t just retell history — they redefine it.

📰 Ethics on Trial — a deep dive into the moral tightrope of true crime cinema.

From “When They See Us” to “Dahmer”, who told the truth, and who crossed the line?

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True crime has never been more popular — or more polarizing. From streaming docuseries to Oscar contenders, the genre dominates contemporary storytelling. But the explosion of dramatizations based on ...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
📖 Jon Krakauer’s “Under the Banner of Heaven” traced a double murder to the fault lines of American faith.

📺 FX’s 2022 miniseries takes that story to television — and reignites debate.

✍🏻 My latest MoviesToHistory.com review explores how the adaptation handles belief, violence, and truth.
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
🕊️ “Under the Banner of Heaven” blurred the line between faith and fanaticism — but how much of what you saw actually happened?
October 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🇧🇷 “I’m Still Here” (Ainda Estou Aqui) is a love letter to memory and resistance.

🎬Walter Salles adapts Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir into a story that refuses to forget.

✍🏻 Full review now live at MoviesToHistory.com

#MoviesToHistory #ImStillHere #ReelVsReal

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October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🎬 Every cinematic choice is a moral one.

📺 ”Under the Banner of Heaven” reshapes our empathy through 3 key techniques —

👁 POV
⏳ Chronology compression
🗞 Archival texture

👀 See how faith and fear blur:

👉 🔗 moviestohistory.com/television-r...

#MoviesToHistory #FilmVsFact #UnderTheBannerOfHeavenFX
October 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
📺 What’s real in “Under the Banner of Heaven” — and what’s dramatized?

✍🏻 New on MoviesToHistory.com: a deep-dive into the Lafferty case, LDS history, and the show’s composite characters.

#TrueCrimeSeries #ReelVsReal #UnderTheBannerOfHeaven

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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🙏 “Faith under pressure reveals power’s true face.”

🎬 “I’m Still Here” (2024) and “Under the Banner of Heaven” (2022) show how belief can both sustain and corrupt — from Brazil’s dictatorship to Utah’s revelation murders.

Full essay ↓

🎞️ MoviesToHistory.com

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Through contrasting depictions of belief under duress, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (2024) and Dustin Lance Black’s Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) interrogate the fragile boundary between faith a...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🙏 1984: Two brothers claim God told them to kill.
📺 2022: FX turns their story into Under the Banner of Heaven.

✍🏻 Our new critique examines what really happened in Utah v. Lafferty — and how faith, fanaticism, and violence collide on screen.
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
🙏 The Violence of Faith..

📺 "Under the Banner of Heaven" is an American true-crime drama miniseries created by Dustin Lance Black, adapted from Jon Krakauer’s 2003 investigative book of the same name.

✍ "Under the Banner of Heaven" is the "Featured Television Blog" of the month for October.
October 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🇧🇷 “They took her husband. She made the world remember.”

🎞️ Walter Salles’s “I’m Still Here” (2024) retells Eunice Paiva’s fight for truth under Brazil’s dictatorship — a story of courage and memory.

🎬 The woman Brazil couldn’t silence.

📖 Read more → MoviesToHistory.com

#ImStillHere #EunicePaiva
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
🎞️ Truth Under Dictatorships

When silence becomes law, truth becomes rebellion.

In “I’m Still Here” (2024), Walter Salles brings to life the story of Eunice Paiva — a mother, lawyer, and activist who refused to disappear into Brazil’s “Years of Lead.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“She lost her husband. She found her voice.”

“I’m Still Here” (2024, dir. Walter Salles) retells Eunice Paiva’s real fight for truth during Brazil’s dictatorship — a story of law, loss, and moral courage.

🎬 Full breakdown → moviestohistory.com/critiques/fi...
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Memory, Resistance, and the Ghosts of Brazil’s Dictatorship...

Few films in recent memory have so powerfully confronted the silence of history as "I’m Still Here" (Ainda Estou Aqui), the 2024 political biographical drama directed by Walter Salles.
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM