Category: Film

How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?
By Categories: Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read:   How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?: In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion by Martin Kremer on the Mosaic website on March 1 2018.

A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Albion (R07) to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike. Visible on deck are De Havilland Sea Venoms of 809 Naval Air Squadron, and Hawker Sea Hawks from 800 and 802 NAS.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Movies Monday: Ida
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read: ‘It You Could Lick My Heart it Would Poison You’ Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice? By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on April 30, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Culture Desk: “Ida”: A Film Masterpiece By David Denby on the New Yorker on May 27, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Ida Reviewed by Godfrey Cheshire on the Roger Ebert Website on May 2, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  An Innocent Awakened: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on May 1, 2014. Continue reading Movies Monday: Ida

The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
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Click Here to Read:   The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps: George Stevens, John Ford, and Samuel Fuller, best known for their work in Hollywood, all documented the Allied liberation at the end of the war by Dan Schindel1 on the HyperAllergic.com website on February 22, 2018.

Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #45075 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons