Can history be told objectively on film? “My point here is that all makers of filmed history, when they come to the point when they must decide which image to choose, where to cut a sequence, or what to lay down on the music track, are not so much in search of objectivity, as they are engaged in the act of cobbling an evocatively credible yarn. The license they take is the same as the poet’s in the act of choosing or inventing or reworking a trope or a rhyme scheme — that is to say, “poetic license.” – Culturefront 06/00