This week, we feature two biographical dramas: one about the fate of a severely deformed man and the other a rousing epic about a Spanish hero. New Release ‘Summit Fever’ Intrepid British mountaineer Michael (Freddie Thorp) has his sights set on three of the most dangerous peaks in the world. Despite seeing the terrifying fatalities…
Book Recommender: Examining How Religion Has Buoyed America Throughout Its History
“American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation” was written by a former magazine and book editor. However, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is best known as a historian, having written more than a dozen history books as well as served as a trustee for such institutions as the Smithsonian National…
‘the Last of the Mohicans’ or the First of America’s Branded Heroes? Exploring How the Archetype Has Endured in American Literature and Cinema
October 14, 2022
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“The Last of the Mohicans” is often dismissed as a boring old novel full of dense descriptions, epitomizing Mark Twain’s definition of a “classic” as “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Twain himself did not think much of its author, James Fenimore Cooper, whose “literary offenses” he lampooned in…
Legend’s End: The Loch Ness Monster Story | Documentary
October 14, 2022
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A passionate community, devoted to the world’s greatest monster myth, is disrupted when a determined scientist begins the final, definitive search for the Loch Ness Monster. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Unseen Battles, Uncelebrated Victories
PG | 2h 50min | Drama | 1946 The Veterans Administration (VA) estimated that, in the late 1940s, about one-tenth of America’s population and a fifth of its workforce were veterans of World War II. For the next quarter of a century, America would depend on that beleaguered group of about 20 million (as large…
The Last King of Poland’s Summer Retreat: Royal Lazienki Palace
WARSAW, Poland—In 1764, King Stanislaw August Poniatowski bought a baroque bathhouse pavilion along with a surrounding estate to build his summer retreat, in Warsaw. Dutch architect Tylman van Gamerenhad had designed the original bathhouse. The king had the bathhouse extended to make his neoclassical style summer retreat, the Royal Lazienki Palace, more commonly known as The…
If Walls Could Talk: Touring James Madison’s Virginia Family Home at Montpelier
October 13, 2022
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives,” wrote President James Madison. For six months, the “Father of the Constitution” sequestered himself in his upstairs study in the family’s Virginia home, Montpelier. There, he engaged in an intensive study…
Film Review: ‘Lancaster’: British Dam-Busting Bomber of World War II
PG | 1h 50min | Documentary | Oct. 14, 2022 The World War II-era British Lancaster bomber was just as iconic as the American B-17 “Flying Fortress” (immortalized in film and news reels by “The Memphis Belle”), but it holds a more complicated place in British popular history. The plane itself and the men who…
Film Review: “Amsterdam’: A Farcical Period Piece About Proto-Fascism in the USA
R | 2h 14m | Comedy, Farce, Drama | October 7, 2022 “A lot of this actually happened.” So opens the elaborate screwball mystery “Amsterdam,” from director David O. Russell who brought us “American Hustle,” “The Fighter,” and “Silver Linings Playbook.” Which is to say, it’s an overlong but also sometimes hilariously quirky riff on 1933’s little-known “White…
Book Review: ‘Crécy: Battle of Five Kings’: Turning Centuries of Medieval Military History on Its Head
Is it possible for nearly 700 hundred years of historical narrative to be wrong? Michael Livingston has made a strong case that much of what we know about the 1346 Battle of Crécy, the battle that started the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, is wrong. In his new book, “Crécy: Battle of Five…
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