The History of Sound

About The History of Sound

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.

The History of Sound is a 2025 music romance film directed by Oliver Hermanus. Released in September 2025, it runs 128 minutes.

Paul Mescal takes the lead as Lionel Worthing, Josh O'Connor as David White, Chris Cooper as Older Lionel, and Molly Price as Lionel's Mother. Written by Ben Shattuck. Production companies include Closer Media, End Cue, and Fat City.

Members will find male homosexuality, based on short story, world war i, and 1920s in it. In the United States it streams on Hulu, MUBI, and MUBI Amazon Channel.

Only Good Things, On the Sea, and Keep Coming Back make useful companions to The History of Sound, all filed under 1980s, festival chéries chéris, and gay romance. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 166 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.