History Today

India's Divided Loyalties?

Peter Heehs looks at the Indian army who threw in their lot against the Raj and with the Japanese in the Second World War.

Wings

Michael Paris looks at pioneering 1920s film about war in the air over the Western Front, the passions it aroused and the genre it created.

On The Waterfront

Brian Neve discusses what the film that made Marlon Brando a fifties icon has to tell us about American society and politics in the McCarthy era.