Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.
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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.
The Wind Gods is a feature-length documentary film following Larry Ellison's 10-year quest to bring the oldest trophy in international sport, The America's Cup, back to the United States.
The Way Back is a 2011 movie about a daring escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1939. Denounced by his wife as a possible spy, Janusz finds himself in a remote Siberian labor camp.
The original Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a short story written by James Thurber 1939. The story is about a vague and mild-mannered man who drives into Waterbury, Connecticut, with his wife for their regular weekly shopping and his wife's visit to the beauty parlor.
A troubled husband and wife set sail on the cruise of a lifetime in an attempt to save their marriage, only for two strangers to turn their dream into a nightmare.
Always popular on Halloween "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story written by American author Washington Irving. First published in 1820 along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", this story is an example of early American fiction.
Deep Water is a riveting documentary about the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. It is a true story of daring adventure with failure and triumph. In the summer of 1968 9 men sailed out on the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Six of the sailors dropped out of the race...
"The Croods" are an eccentric family of cavemen, who survive the harsh terrain by living according to a strict set of rules. But when their home is destroyed in the wake of an impending disaster known as "The End", they are forced to leave their home of shelter and security, and into the...
My favorite of all the Sci Fi movies. When the first series aired on television in 1978, I was not impressed. It was a nice try but they just did not have the story developed enough and the acting was so bad. However in 2004 the Syfy Channel produced Battlestar Galactica (BSG) the...
If you want a shockingly honest look at how an empire works then you will want to see the movie Restrepo. It is billed as “Chronicling the hard work, fear, and brotherhood that come with repelling a deadly enemy.”
Les Misérables, translated from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims , is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions...
It is the job of the propagandist to change the way people understand an issue. He wants to change the public’s actions and expectations in ways that are desirable to the ruling elite. For effective propaganda to succeed, it must also become a censor of information also. Not only filling...
She was a mathematician, philosopher and the daughter of Theon Alexandricus, the last librarian of the Alexandria Library in the Museum of Alexandria. She was educated at Athens and in Italy; at about 400 AD, she became headmistress of the Platonist school at Alexandria, where she...
An epic tale from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, it’s story of love, lust, broken trust, relentless passion and ultimate tragedy. Like all such stories which live a long life, and this story is at least seventeen centuries old, it concerns a love triangle. A familiar triangle, the...
Romeo and Juliet were two star-crossed lovers in William Shakespeare's most famous play. It does not make any specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family.
The number seven has a long history of mystical and religious associations: Seven Sleepers, Seven Ages of Man, Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece, Seventh Son of the Seventh Son, Seven Sisters and Seven Days Week.
Seven Ages of Man is from the romantic comedy “As You Like It”, written by William Shakespeare. It is set in the forest of Arden, where the senior Duke lives in exile with a band of loyal courtiers. These lines are spoken by one of the characters, Jaques, who is given to a lot of...