Films
Munich 1938: Hitler Got a Whole Country at 1 a.m. Without a Shot Fired
At 1 a.m. on September 30, 1938, four men signed away an entire country in a Munich palace — without inviting its representatives. The true story behind the agreement is stranger and…
Best American Civil War Movies: What Hollywood Gets Right and Wrong
Hollywood has staged the Civil War for over a century — sometimes with shattering accuracy, sometimes with pure invention. Here's…
Ken Burns: America Knew About the Holocaust and Chose to Look Away
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's six-hour PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust argues that Americans were never…
Best American Revolution Documentaries — and Why It Took So Long to Make Them
The Civil War got Ken Burns and 40 million viewers; the Revolution got classroom reels. Here's why the war that…
Korean War Movies: Why Hollywood Abandoned 36,000 Dead for Decades
The Korean War killed 36,000 Americans, yet Hollywood produced almost no films about it for decades. Here's why the studios…
Best Vietnam War Movies Ranked: What Veterans Say Hollywood Got Right
Veterans and film critics rank the best Vietnam War movies very differently—and the gap between those lists reveals which films…
Saving Private Ryan’s D-Day: What Spielberg Got Right vs. Invented
Saving Private Ryan drew from real D-Day carnage and a genuine U.S. Army policy to retrieve surviving brothers — but…
The Monuments Men True Story: 5 Million Stolen Artworks, One Impossible Mission
Before George Clooney dramatized their mission, the real Monuments Men — museum directors, art historians, and conservators — raced Nazi…
American Revolution Myths Debunked by the New Documentaries
The new Ken Burns PBS miniseries and Netflix's The American Experiment surface decades of revisionist scholarship — from Britain offering…
The Monuments Men Book: The Nazi Art Heist the Film Couldn’t Fully Tell
Robert Edsel's 496-page nonfiction account of the Monuments Men goes far beyond the 2014 film, reconstructing the industrial scale of…