There's books from authors that would become household names — F. Scott Fitzgerald and A.A Milne among them — and books that ...

In 1941, as Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, desperation pushed the Red Army to shatter gender barriers. Enter the ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

The 1914 Christmas Truce wasn’t universal, and it didn’t last, but it’s become one of war’s most retold on-screen moments: ...

The exceptional historical film has had such a profound impact on western visual culture that many may not realise how deeply ...

During the silent era, thousands of movie-theatre organs raised their quirky, quavery voices, with the Mighty Wurlitzer being ...

Over a century of cinema, some movie genres have particularly stood out depending on the decade, from film noir in the '40s ...

While Erich von Stroheim's complete vision for his Gloria Swanson collaboration Queen Kelly was never realized, as the second half of production was scrapped due to a massively ballooning budget, one ...

The arguments are legion for seeing motion pictures in a movie theater rather than on a home screen or (perish the thought) cellphone. It’s all the more true for silent films. And that case was ...

It’s been a moment since the world’s first real motion picture debuted, the 1895 black-and-white documentary “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon.” But in some minds silent films are as ...