Few mediums are better suited than film to engage students with history while making its constructive nature vividly experiential. At the same time, film analysis in the classroom is a complex and demanding endeavor. This booklet offers accessible and classroom-tested teaching templates for 17 historical and documentary films, illustrating various aspects of film analysis. The templates require little film didactic expertise. They provide teachers with fundamental analysis mechanisms that can be easily applied to other film examples. In most cases, the film example can be conducted within a single lesson, and time-intensive methods have been deliberately avoided.