The Secret to Successful Medieval Movies
When putting the Middle Ages on screen, drama is no substitute for the historical sources.
Film & TV
An Uneasy Propaganda Alliance
The doomed film collaboration between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan resulted in two very different features serving the same fascist agenda: The Daughter of the Samurai and The New Earth.
Catching Nessie on Film
The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘Genocide’, the Holocaust episode of The World at War, was pioneering when it first aired. Does it stand the test of time?
The Lost Movies of Golden Age Hollywood
Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.
American Moppets
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
Hot Gossip
Recalling Hollywood’s best anecdotes and old grudges.
Premiere of a Christmas Classic
It’s a Wonderful Life had its first screening on 20 December 1946.
The Birth of the Sword and Sandals Epic
The period epics of Hollywood’s golden age were born of the popularity of swords and sandals on the Victorian stage.
‘Can’t Tek No More’
Franco Rosso’s film Babylon presented the lives of Black Londoners in a way few had done before.