Save One Life, Save the World?

An extraordinary feel-good movie, One Life, about how one "ordinary" British man, Nicholas Winton, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, saved 669 Jewish children in Czechoslovakia from the Holocaust in 1939, is now streaming in the U.S. It does, unintentionally, raise uncomfortable questions as to what humanitarians can do to save the lives of the children of …

Movie About The Discovery of English King Richard III, Buried In A Car Park

King Richard III (1452-1485) was king of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked …

3 Movies Illuminate Women’s Movement

My Substack e-newsletter offers trailers for three movies about women's rights and solicits reader suggestions for important resources on women's history. Click.

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ Includes Time Travel, Ancient Greek Mathematician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g Trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." "Set in 1969, the film follows Jones and his estranged goddaughter, Helena, who are trying to locate a powerful artifact before Jürgen Voller, a Nazi-turned-NASA scientist who plans to use it to alter the outcome of World War II...Plot: (The movie begins) In 1944, Nazis capture Indiana Jones and Oxford archeologist Basil Shaw as they …

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir Biopic Focuses on 1973 Yom Kipper War

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (1898-1971) was Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974.  She was modern Israel's first and only female head of government, the first and only female head of government in the modern Middle East, and the fourth elected female head of government or state in the modern world.[5] She has been described as …

Abraham Lincoln’s Momentous Meeting with Gen. Grant in Petersburg, VA, April 3, 1865

Historic Petersburg Foundation: The Lincoln-Grant Meeting. "Momentous events in American history occurred in late March and early April 1865 in and around Petersburg, Virginia...details...Early on the morning of April 3, Grant invited President Abraham Lincoln to meet with him in Petersburg that day. Lincoln was on a visit to the front and that morning was …

‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Is ‘A Supersize Masterpiece,’ Critic Declares

A three-hour biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the theoretical physicist who fathered the atomic bomb, is a masterpiece, writes critic Ann Hornaday for The Washington Post. The movie "evolves from a historical and biographical deep dive to a meditation on moral injury and, in its final hour, to a thoroughly gripping psycho-political thriller," she writes. …

History Professor Reacts to Napoleon Movie Trailer

Reel History: "Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated Napoleon biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix has the potential to become the next “Gladiator.” But how will the movie align with the historical record?" Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1nczaspy4 "History professor Jared Frederick offers some insights on the direction the film may take." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEFinMiSco

Best Movies of the 1940s

Movies With Matt attempts to rank the top 10 movies of each decade beginning with the 1940s. For that decade, he picked Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator": "Bicycle Thieves"; "Double Indemnity"; "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"; "Brief Encounter"; "The Third Man"; "Notorious"; "It's a Wonderful Life"; "Casablanca"; "Citizen Kane"; and "Honorable Mentions." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q29ScSwCeq4&t=344s

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of 1 of The Best Movies of All Time

In 1943, "Casablanca" won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It is widely considered a classic, one of the best movies of all time. Plot: A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Wikipedia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv0Eo5-LHhk