This week on Moving Histories, we're heading to the top of the world with Jennifer Peedom's Tenzing, a historical drama about Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's historic 1953 ascent of Mount Everest.

We discuss the politics of exploration, Sherpa identity, and the role of the sublime in historical cinema. We also revisit Peedom's documentary Sherpa (2015) to explore how documentary and narrative filmmaking offer different ways of experiencing and understanding history.

What happens when a historical film tries to explain Anthony Bourdain before he became Anthony Bourdain? This week on Moving Histories, John , Robert Burgoyne, and Kim discuss Matt Johnson’s Tony and how the film to explores history, memory, place, and, of course, food. We also ask a more fundamental question: does Tony actually illuminate the person Bourdain became, or does knowing that person make the film seem more meaningful than it really is? Suffice it to say, the three of us have some thoughts.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings one of history's oldest stories to the screen, but what does it reveal about myth, memory, and historical storytelling? Joined by renowned classicist Monica Cyrino, we explore Nolan's adaptation, revisit the ideas from our Oppenheimer episode about Nolan as a historian, and discuss why Homer continues to shape cinema nearly three thousand years later.