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Still from Saving Private Ryan, depicting soldiers in a landing craft.

How Saving Private Ryan's Best Picture Loss Changed the Oscars Forever

More than just an upset, "Saving Private Ryan" losing the Best Picture Oscar to "Shakespeare in Love" changed how Academy Awards are won.
by David Crow via Den Of Geek on April 13, 2021
Alfred Hitchcock directing

The Haunted Imagination of Alfred Hitchcock

How the master of suspense got his sadistic streak.
by John Banville via The New Republic on April 1, 2021

James E. Hinton’s Unseen Films Reframe the Black Power Movement

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.
via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020

In the Time of Monsters

Watchmen is a sophisticated inquiry into the ethical implications of its own form—the flash and bang, the prurience and violence of comic books.
by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2020
Two U.S. Marines, and dog, kneeling in front of grave marked with Christian cross.

Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.
by Greg Wilsbacher via The Conversation on February 13, 2020
Soldiers inspecting damaged helmets in a scene from John Huston's 1945 film "The Battle of San Pietro."

The War Documentary That Never Was

John Huston's 1945 movie The Battle of San Pietro presents itself as a war documentary, but contains staged scenes. What should we make of it?
by Kristin Hunt via JSTOR Daily on December 5, 2019
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

‘The Vietnam War’: Past All Reason

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on September 19, 2017

Ken Burns's American Canon

Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.
by Ian Parker via The New Yorker on September 4, 2017

Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.
by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on August 30, 2017
Scene from Birth of a Nation.

“A Public Menace”

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.
by Dorian Lynskey via Slate on March 31, 2015
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, far left, interviewing Black filmmakers Mario Van Peebles, Neema Barnette, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, and Warrington Hudlin (left to right).
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Soul of Black Identity: New Jack Cinema

A conversation with some of the hottest filmmakers on the scene: They're young, they're Black, but they're making green.
by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on August 16, 1991

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

This film is a rare record of San Francisco's downtown area before its destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
by Miles Brothers via Library of Congress on April 14, 1906

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