The History of Sound (2025)

#3582 worldwide · charting in 2 countries

Movie · 128 min · M · drm, hst, msc, rma

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In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

  • 6.9 IMDb
  • 6.8 TMDB
  • 68% Rotten Tomatoes
  • 71 JustWatch

Where to watch The History of Sound

Available on 7 platforms across 2 countries.

Chart positions today

Currently charting in 2 countries, best placed at #290 in Australia.

Available languages

Audio: English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, NB, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Chart history

The History of Sound has spent 0 days in a top 3, 0 days in a top 10 and 9 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #11.

Cast

Paul Mescal, Josh O'Connor, Molly Price, Alison Bartlett, Michael Schantz, Chris Cooper, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson, Peter Mark Kendall, Emma Canning, Gary Raymond, Alessandro Bedetti, Michael D. Xavier, Emily Bergl, Aidan Redmond, Aedin Moloney, Leo Cocovinis, Tom Nelis

Crew

Oliver Hermanus (director), Lisa Ciuffetti (producer), Andrew Kortschak (producer), Andrea Roa (producer), Ben Shattuck (screenplay), Sara Murphy (producer), Thérèsa Ryan (producer), Zhang Xin (producer)