Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the "exe...

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art ag...

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream o...
On August 15, 1974, an attempt was made on the life of Korean president Park Chung-hee — one of the ...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Sydney, the early 1950's... a city in the grip of a deadly crime wave. In just over a year more than...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.