Screening the past : history since the cinema / Captain Bligh as mythic cliché / Re-screening the past : subversion narratives and the politics of history / Smart Jews : from the Caine mutiny to Schindler's list and beyond / A stab in the back on a Sunday morning : the melodramatic imagination and Pearl Harbor / Losing the peace : some British films of postwar adjustment / The scent of distant blood : Hammer films and history / Film Nazis : the great escape / Marcel Ophüls' November days : the forming and performing of documentary history / Braveheart and the Scottish aesthetic dementia / Borders and boundaries : history and television in a postmodern world / Television and our understanding of history : a distant conversation / Letatlin and Ern Malley : history refracted through Impossibility and hoax / Projected lives : a meditation on biography and cinematic space / Enchanted experience