Crofter Boy

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach...

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country ....

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American actress who was a leading lady in Hollywood...

Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall music of today. No film has been made wholly...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north...

A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.