This website is the public arm of the parent project which is purposed to explore whether the visual media, particularly forms of cinema, can be inculcated into the pedagogy of History. Can they be used to enhance one's understanding of a particular theme or event. The primary objective of the project is to find such movies and understand how they portray the incident or event, with how much accuracy and how this can be used to explain the event itself in a teaching setting.
The website is inteded to show our results.
We are considering changing the name to History Through Cinema, as that feels a bit more accurate
- Organizing movies based on their theme and allowing the display of it so
- Showing how a cinema is relevant to a theme
- Organizing movies based on the country it portrays and allowing the navigation of it through a map
- Special Modules that have a focused approach to a particular theme, or curriculam subject. A selection of 5-8 movies which give a holistic story to a particular topic.
- Other resources that can aid the pedagogical cause, such as google earth modules that give nice maps which are great visual tools in understanding events and movements.
- Pyhton's Django Framework
- Dependencies can be found within requirements.txt
Install all dependencies from requirements.txt (You can create a virtualenv)
pip install -r requirements.txt
Make Migrations:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
Run Server:
python manage.py runserver
It will run locally on port 8000
While the project has more members, the website responsibility(building and deploying), so far, has been solely mine.