Philip Taylor's Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War , covering both fiction propaganda and propaganda documentaries, is one example. According to the Movies , with critiques of 62 historical movies from Jurassic Park and The Ten Commandments through Gone with the Wind and Gallipoli to Gandhi , JFK and Nixon , shows how history is represented and misrepresented in the cinema. Past Imperfect is an excellent example of history AS film, how the past is represented on film. It reviews each film in historical-literary terms, noting how each one derives from and also contributes to popular perceptions of history. But there are also wide open opportunities for the study of history ON film in Africa, and the history of cinema IN Africa.
Film can provide evidence of the past.
The video section of Radio Botswana, in anticipation of a national television service, has attempted to stockpile some of these films and film-clips. There is also a useful film and video archive attached to the South African National Archives, in Church Street East, Pretoria. The history of the cinema in Africa is a field of studies in itself, especially the history of film production and distribution for African consumption. Articles by Andrew D. Roberts and others in History in Africa and in the Journal of African History have begun to develop this field. As early as about 1920 a colonial governor of Nyasaland was calling for censorship of films in Africa, as they undermined white moral supremacy.