Visual images and filmic discourse not only offer abundant cultural materials but are productive in quantity. If applied to the General Education courses in college, they can motivate students to learn, create an educational atmosphere, innovate material and teaching method, improve quality of teaching, and achieve self-learning. Historical Monthly, a well-known historical periodical that lays stress on history education, usually has essays focusing on such subjects. Lu retrieved and analyzed those essays concerning how visual images and filmic discourse can aid history teaching, and found that problem-based teaching, interactive teaching and self-learning are effective ways to teaching English with visual images and filmic discourse. That is, the teacher should use visual images and filmic discourses to create a historical context according to the course objectives and student characteristics. A teaching mode is thus created to allow students to think broadly and explore new knowledge.