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This is backstory. I'm Peter Onof. This year, many of the movies nominated for the Top Oscar Prize are once again drawn from history, like this front runner, which already snagged a handful of Golden Globes.

And the Golden Globes goes to the Revenant.

The survival story of Hugh Glass might earn Leonardo DiCaprio his elusive Oscar.

But today's audiences are hardly the first to be captivated by this historical figure.

In the 1970s, I would call him a hippie.

Today on backstory, history in Hollywood, from living through bridge of spies to the history of psychology and inside out, will even dabble in the business ourselves by creating your suggestions for history movie trailers.

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History at the 2016 Oscars.

Today on backstory.

Major funding for backstory is provided by the ShiaCon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.

From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

This is backstory with the American History Guys.

Welcome to backstory. I'm Ed Ayers.

I'm Brian Ballow.

And I'm Peter Onov.

We're going to start today with a story you might find familiar if you've gone to the movies recently.

In the summer of 1823, a fur trapper named Hugh Glass was mulled by a mother grizzly bear in South Dakota.

Hey, Peter, you know, I didn't have heard this somewhere. This sounds a lot like the plot to the Revenant.

Well, yeah, that's true. And the film does bill itself as inspired by this true story.

But, Brian, this is a spoiler-free zone.

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