Almost a century after the Second World War took millions of lives and forever changed the geopolitical face of the planet, cinema still tries to capture the emotion and devastation from the era so that none are forgotten. Writers and directors have taken script and camera to recreate battlefields and bring historical leaders to modern … Read more
It’s been a bad week for aquatic cinema, between the middling DC farewell Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and the George Clooney-directed period drama The Boys in the Boat. The two have little in common in terms of subject matter and style, but they’re plagued by the same sense of glum involvement. Clooney’s Olympic drama … Read more
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But Golodoff’s recent death at the age of 84 has reopened a chapter of American history and stirred up memories of … Read more
TOKYO — Toshihiro Mutsuda was solely 5 years previous when he final noticed his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Military in 1943 and killed in motion. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an previous household picture standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to struggle. On Saturday, when … Read more
ON UTAH BEACH, France — Trying on the vastness of Utah Seaside, its sand blowing in sturdy wind and shiny sunshine, made Robert Gibson’s reminiscence of D-Day much more vivid. “It was powerful,” the 99-year-old veteran mentioned of the second when he landed there on June 6, 1944 alongside greater than 150,000 different Allied troops. … Read more