Through Ann Curthoys and John Docker’s ‘Is History Fiction?’ and Noah Berlatsky’s ‘How 12 Years A Slave Gets History Right: By Getting It Wrong’ we can see that the potential of film to present a true version of the past. Looking back to reflection 1 we can see that discussion has suggested that a historical film tells, or makes a clear attempt to tell, a true/ accurate story of the past. Ann Curthoys and John Docker state in their introduction of ‘Is History Fiction?’, ‘No one – including us – would do history, would pursue historical research, unless she and he thought they could arrive, however provisionally, at some kind of truth about the past.’ This quote leads to the idea that history has a sense of doubleness meaning, that two sides