The construction of a Didactic of History: some ideas about the utilization of movie on teaching

Since the first decades of the 20th century, educators advocate the utilization of cinema as an important didactic resource in the History teaching, some pointing out the idea of faithful reproduction of the past. Cinema creates possibilities to build the school historical knowledge, once the movie, seen in classroom, mobilizes mental operations that makes the student to elaborate the historical conscience, that is a way of human conscience immediately related with the practical human life, and that is, at least, the hugest objective of History teaching.

Education; teaching History; cinema