BA Film Studies and History
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and History and Film Studies, exploring cinema and historical periods from ancient times to the late 20th century. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course units cover classical and contemporary films alongside national and global histories.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in History
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What students say
Based on about 38 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 91%
- Learning opportunities: 86%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 90%
- Learning resources: 84%
- Student voice: 83%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 5%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 13%
- Teaching Professionals: 12%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 52%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 290 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 27%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 6%
- East of England: 2%
- London: 42%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- The Art of Film
- Introduction to Early Film Histories
- History in Practice
- Introduction to World Cinema
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Constructing Archaic Greek History
- From Republic to Empire: Introduction to Roman History, Society & Culture 218-31BC
- Cities and Citizens
- Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- Decoding Inequality: Reimagining Digital Culture
- Modern China: from the Opium Wars to the Olympic Games
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- Imperial Nation: Empire and the Making of Modern Britain, 1783-1902
- An Introduction to the Medieval World
- Forging a New World: Europe c.1450-1750
- States, Nations and Empires. Europe, c.1750-1914
- ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: Black and South Asian British Histories
- Histories of Information
- Bodies in History: An introduction to the History of Medicine
- Japanese History and Civilisation
- Empire and Culture in East Asia
- The History and Sociopolitics of Palestine/Israel (1882-1967)
- History and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- The Making of Modern Russia: 1552-1917
- Humanities in Public: The Politics and Value(s) of Knowledge
- Screen, Culture and Society
- From Jamestown to James Brown: African-American History and Culture
- The American Civil War
- The Conquering Hero: The Life, Times and Legacy of Alexander The Great
- The Roman Empire 31BC - AD313 Rome's Golden Age
- Politics and Society in Classical Greece
- Roman Women in 22 Objects
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Black on Screen
- God at the Movies
- Introduction to Documentary Film Practice
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Media, Performance, & Digital Culture in Contemporary France
- Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
- Spectres of Fascism: Literature, Film and Visual Arts in Germany and Austria since 1945
- Making of the Modern Mind: European Intellectual History in a Global Context
- Winds of Change: Politics, Society and Culture in Britain, 1899 -1990
- Independent Research Project
- Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
- The Cultural History of Modern War
- Colonial Encounters: Race, Violence, and the Making of the Modern World
- Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of History
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- A Transnational History of Europe in the Short Twentieth Century, c.1917-1991
- Revolutionary Cities: The Urban World of the Middle Ages
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
- In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film.
- Animals in History: An Introduction to human-animal relationships and why they matter
- Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
- Themes in the Histories of Arab and Jewish Nationalisms
- Religion, Culture and Gender
- 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
- The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermaths: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
- Between East and West: Culture, Empire and Nation in Russia
- Visual Culture in Modern Spain: Film, Painting and Photography
- Slavery and the Old South
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester One)
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester Two)
- Docufiction Filmmaking
- Queer Bodies and the Cinema
- Screening the Holocaust
- Social Lives of Cinema
- Extended Dissertation
- Falstaff and Gandalf go to the Movies: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Screen
- Global Television Industries
- Contemporary Documentary Film Making
- Screen Acting & Stardom
- 'A Nation In The Making': India, 1800-1947
- Empire, Gender and British Heroes, c.1885 - 1985
- History Dissertation
- Wealth and Welfare: Reconceptualising British Economy and Society between 1832 and 1942
- China and the West: the Age of Empire and Beyond
- Heroes and Holy Men: The Irish Sea World in the Viking Age, c. 780-1100
- The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory
- The Comparative and Transnational History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
- Defining the Deviant: Crime and British Society, 1888-2000
- The Aftermath of War in France, Britain and Germany: Violence and Reconstruction after WW1 and WW2
- Ceaseless Revolution: France, 1781-1871
- The Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1975
- Material Encounters in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800
- 'Brains and Numbers': Intellectual Life in Victorian Britain
- Pirates: The Sea, The Empire and The Other
- Becoming Christian in The Early Middle Ages
- The Normans and the Kingdom of Sicily in the Mediterranean World (1000-1200)
- Spatial History: Mapping the Past
- From New Left to New Times: Socialist Ideas in Post-War Britain
- Black Britain: Power, Neighbourhoods and the Everyday, 1948-1990
- Africa and Development: A Political History of the Social Sciences
- Cultural Entanglements: Life and Death in Colonial America
- The Anglo-American Connection & National Identity in the long C19: Race, Reform & National Identity
- Contesting Hitler's Empire:Resistance,Collaboration,and Mass Violence in Occupied Europe (1939–1945)
- Vanished: Histories of Extinction from the Mammoth to Extinction Rebellion
- Global China in the Second World War
- Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America’s Twentieth Century
- Islam in China
- People and Power in the Digital Age
- Fossils: Global Histories of Natural Heritage, Science and Empire
- The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today
- From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: a History of Forensic Science and Medicine
- Climate Change & Society
- Madness and Society
- Tools and Techniques for Enterprise
- Tools & Techniques for Enterprise
- Enterprise Feasibility
- Culture, Media and Politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia
- The Supernatural in Latin American Literature and Film
- History of the Spanish Atlantic World: Empire, Trade, War
- Migration, Identity and Environment in Portuguese and Spanish Film
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Film Studies and History at University of Manchester earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £26,000 after 3 years, £33,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,500 and £42,500. The £33,000 median after five years is £5,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Film Studies and History at University of Manchester do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Film Studies and History at University of Manchester?
91% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Film Studies and History at University of Manchester?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 152 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Film Studies and History at University of Manchester?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.