Historical Film is the first feature-length film by One-Room Schoolhouse Films.  Based on their 2016 short, it was directed/co-written by Will Bryan and produced/co-written by Katharine Stein.

Historical Film takes place in the world of Civil War reenactors.  The story follows Caleb Shatar (Zana Gankyag) who, in order to save his student visa, must impress an eccentric professor (Gregg Turkington) whose pet project—a zero-budget film about the death of John Wilkes Booth—needs a volunteer.

Over the course of a weekend, he recreates the manhunt with Joss (Joseph Carlson), a passionate reenactor who believes in harsh truths and the power of redemption, and Caleb begins to have hope for his own situation. But when his professor joins the shuffle, passions clash and Caleb must pick a side.  While one man wants to erase mistakes by rewriting the past, another wants to heal the future, and all three are united in their mutual quest to find meaning in the present. And with the clock ticking, Caleb must confront his own demons before he’s expelled—and possibly banished—from the country he calls home.