The history of the use of cinema in education is long and film has been used in many contexts over the last one hundred years.  In my search for information, I uncovered many artifacts discussing this topic that were written between 1919 and 2019.  Here, I have provided an annotated spreadsheet of five sources in which I felt particularly relevant to my search for historic uses of film in education:

The use of cinema in education annotated spreadsheet

Image: http://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/1-4-127E/class-watching-chemistry-movie-1963/