Tag: Arts & Culture

LIVE Oct. 31, 10 AM ET: 2022 NTD International Piano Competition: Semifinals

NTD’s 6th International Piano Competition is set to take place in New York from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2. The International Piano Competition is one in a series of international cultural and arts events hosted by NTD Television Network. The mission of this competition is to promote traditional arts of pure authenticity, pure goodness, and pure…


Rocky Mountain Troubadour

Even though musician John Denver didn’t have the lyrics memorized yet, he walked onto the small stage at the Cellar Door, an intimate music club in the quaint Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1970, and sang a new song he’d finished co-writing the night before. As he made his way through the…


Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda | Documentary

Sent to the Filipino city of Tacloban to report on the strongest typhoon in recorded history, a newscaster and his crew could not prevent themselves from becoming part of the story when they were forced to walk for six hours through the storm’s aftermath. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it…


‘I Must Go Down to the Seas Again’: The Poet Laureate of Saltwater and Sail

Throughout his long life, John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) wrote a shelf full of novels, stories, essays, plays, and histories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography acclaimed his “Gallipoli” as “one of the finest accounts we have of modern warfare,” and two of his books for the younger set, “The Midnight Folk” and “The Box of…


Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for Oct. 28–Nov. 3

This week, we feature an epic biography of a man who transformed India and a World War II drama about soldiers on both sides of the conflict. New Release ‘A Chance Encounter’ Hal Flynn (Paul Petersen) is a struggling poet and Josie Day (Andrea von Kampen) is a folk musician who has already achieved a…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Oct. 28–Nov. 3

This week, we feature two splendid novels about boys’ friendships: one set in tumultuous Afghanistan and the other in Brooklyn, New York, in the ’40s. Fiction A Tale of Friendship and Redemption ‘The Kite Runner’ By Khaled Hosseini Originally published in 2003, this emotionally deep novel immerses readers in a country in chaos and a…


Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words | Documentary

This film is only available in North America because of territorial licensing. Justice Clarence Thomas recounts his extraordinary life story—from living in poverty as a child to serving on the Supreme Court. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original…


Medical Genocide: Hidden Mass Murder in China’s Organ Transplant Industry | Documentary

China now performs the most organ transplants in the world, yet has few voluntary donors. While the regime has admitted to harvesting organs from death row prisoners, they account for a tiny fraction of transplants performed in the country. Based on a decade of research, this documentary uncovers the true source of these organs: an…


Book Review: ‘The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles that Saved Democracy’

In his latest work, “The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy,” ancient Greek historian Stephen P. Kershaw has produced a thorough study of the famous fifth century B.C. battles between the city-states (“poleis”) of ancient Greece (or Hellas) and the Persian Empire: the ground battles of Marathon, Thermopylae,…


Duccio’s Iconic Paintings of Mother and Child

There seems to be something quite universal about the image of the mother and child. For over 3,000 years, from Ancient Egypt to Europe and beyond, artists from every culture have shown mothers carrying, protecting, and nourishing their children in a variety of cultural contexts. Though rendered each according to its own cultural standard, the…