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OPERATION MINCEMEAT REVEALS MORE WORLD WAR II SECRETS As more classified information about World War II is revealed, Operation Mincemeat reveals why the British landing on Sicily occurred with minimal casualties, based on a nonfiction book with the same title by Ben Macintyre, who updates information about the plot that was previously presented in the […]

WATERMAN CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF DUKE KAHANAMOKU The only American with statues erected in his honor in several countries of the world is Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku. But he was not born in the United States. He was born in 1890 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʽi and began living from the age of

DONBASS SHOWS LIFE IN EASTERN UKRAINE BEFORE 2022 Before the Russian offensive against Ukraine in 2022, a chuck of Eastern Ukraine had been seized by Russians in 2014 and governed as “New Russia.” Donbass, directed by Sergey Loznitsa, provides slices of life in that region in about 2015. Each of thirteen scenes is self-contained but

DEATH ON THE NILE TESTS ONE’S ABILITY TO SPOT CLUES In the beginning of Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie’s creation, Hercule Poirot (played by the director, Kenneth Branagh), is a soldier in a trench during World War I (something added by screenplay writer Michael Green along with prominent Black actresses to distinguish the film

LINGUI, THE SACRED BOND SHOWS THE NEED TO RETAIN ROE V WADE As certain members of the Supreme Court consider how to justify reversing Roe v Wade, a film from Chad makes the case for Roe v Wade. Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Lingui, the Sacred Bond focuses on Maria (played by Rihane Khalil Alio), a

WINNING FILMS OF 2021 ANNOUNCED Best film exposé: Wife of a Spy, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best film on human rights: Held for Ransom, directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen Best film on peace: Margrete: Queen of the North directed by Charlotte Sieling. Best film promoting democracy: no award. All four directors

DEADLINE APPROACHING TO CAST FINAL BALLOT TO DETERMINE WINNING FILMS Thanks to members of the Political Film Society, the nominated films have been reduced to no more than five for each category. From the list below selection ONE (1) film that you believe is deserving of an award for the best film in each of

FINAL BALLOT TO DETERMINE WINNING FILMS Thanks to members of the Political Film Society, the nominated films have been reduced to no more than five for each category. From the list below selection ONE (1) film that you believe is deserving of an award for the best film in each of the four categories. Select

THE VIRTUES AND REPRESSION OF FALUN GONG ARE REVEALED IN UNSILENCED In the 1990s, an organization known as Falun Gong was introduced in China by Li Hongzhi. Unsilenced, a film based on true events though mostly fictional persons in 1999, exposes a period of Chinese history that few around the world fully understand due to

MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR PROVIDES ANOTHER WINDOW INTO WORLD WAR II Films about World War II are endless, and Munich: The Edge of War fills a gap about the Munich Agreement of 1938. However, the story is based on the 2017 novel by Robert Harris, who wrote the novel that became the film Enigma,