James Swanson’s story begins in Evanston, Illinois, in 1926, during the Great Depression. Growing up as the son of a minister who moved the family across Montana, Oregon, and Iowa, James learned ...
This war film is more epic than the critics made it out to be upon its release, and is finding a new audience on streaming.
From Das Boot to Schindler's List, these war movies are the most perfectly realized and executed in cinema history.
David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...
As so-called separatists in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine began to govern the two major cities and work toward a ...
Before Russell Crowe starred in Nuremberg, Judgment at Nuremberg handled the important trial in an even more compelling way.
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity ...
Decades before his grandson became a movie star, Tony Lupien was traded to the Hollywood Stars. But he just wanted to play ...
The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in Latin America opens an aggressive new chapter in US history and reignites the War on Drugs.
What makes the World War II genre of filmmaking so rich, and also so difficulty, is that they must walk a thin line between sobriety and glorification, dread and hopefulness, life and death. The best ...
China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a "war footing," with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s ...