What are the 10 greatest movies ever about the Civil War?
THE PLACE where the greatest early movie stars built their final homes is returning to life
Bela Lugosi began by playing Laertes and Romeo, only to become forever trapped in very different roles
All across America there are restaurants that serve up the spirit and conviviality of eras long past
A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, nonstop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end
For a century and a half Germans have been deeply ambivalent about the United States, and their contradictory feelings say much about their future in Europe and the world
Desperate improvisations in the face of imminent disaster saw us through the early years of the fight. They also gave us the war’s greatest movie.
In 1932 the Communist International paid to send a cast of American blacks to Moscow to make a movie about American racial injustice. The scheme backfired.
"Gosh, it would be fun to play a President of the United States," said Lt. Reagan.
No less a fan than President Wilson said “The Birth of a Nation” was “like writing history with Lightning.” Movies have taught everybody else history too.
It was a great life being a contract writer for a major studio during the high noon of the American movie industry—but it could also be a nightmare. A survivor recalls the pleasures and ardors of working at 20th Century-Fox forty years ago.
With the Depression pushing the studio toward bankruptcy, Warner Brothers had to resort to crime—and crime paid so well that the company was able to recruit the toughest guys that ever shot up a sound stage.
It was a suburb of orange blossoms and gardens, of gracious homes and quiet, dignified lives—until a regrettable class of people moved in.
The Dean of American Movie Men at Seventy-Five
Ragtime and Reds
The curious career of the Hays Office
Superstar of the Silents
In his old age, William Randolph Hearst did a stately pleasure dome decree, and yet the secret river, youth, escaped him