Film/Television

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children, men, women and soldiers during WWII
10 Great World War II Films
Hollywood Movie store in Hong Kong, 2010.
Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War
People dancing in a Broadway musical with their hands in the air
Our Top Ten Historical Musicals
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).
Why We Love the Vikings
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I
Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
Marvel character Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.
At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial
Bruce Lee
The Original Street Fighting Man
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano
2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank
12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)
Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb