Guidelines for the movie review assignment

What is the film's genre? (drama, documentary, etc.)
What is the film's audience? (TV viewers, general film audience, students)
What is the film's main historical point? (what sense of history is it trying to convey "metaphorically," as per Rosenstone's article)
What evidence does this film use? (relevant to both documentary and feature films)
In what ways is this film successful?
It what ways does this film fail as history?