ABSTRACT
Selecting a movie to show your class involves a number of considerations. For example, Michael Ferrarese of the New Teachers Network originally planned to show segments from the French documentary, Night and Fog (1955), to his global history classes as part of a lesson on personal responsibility and the European Holocaust. The narration of the film is in French and the screen is dark and unadorned. As a result, a number of students in his first class found it difficult to follow what was happening on “screen.” For his other classes, Michael decided to substitute a small segment from the Hollywood produced movie Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In the scene he showed his classes, an actor, playing the prosecutor at the trial, provides an English narration of some of the same documentary footage. In addition, there are maps that show exactly where the concentration camps are located. Michael found that these lessons were much more successful.
