Tag: Arts & Culture

Cops (1922)

A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city’s entire police force. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social…


Film Review: ‘Syndrome K’: An Inspirational World War II Documentary in the Spirit of ‘Schindler’s List’  

NR | 52min | Documentary, War | 16 August 2022 (USA) See if this sounds familiar. A highly contagious virus is discovered in a densely populated city and without proper attention it could spread to the rest of the continent, if not the entire planet. Those affected are quarantined or isolated while selfless caregivers put their own lives at risk while…


Adventures of a 13-Year-Old American Kid in World War II Italy

Joseph Moraglia was born in Brooklyn on July 4, 1931. He was the youngest of nine children born to Domenico and Rosa Moraglia. Fittingly for being born on the Fourth of July, he was the only child of the Italian family born in the United States. Joseph turned 91 this year. He’s the poster child…


Something for Summer Reading: ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mark Twain said that a classic is a book that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read. Sad to say, “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson has become one of those classics. But “Treasure Island” lies waiting to be dug up, and perhaps the waning days of this summer is your chance…


How Government ‘Helped Advance’ One of Greatest Inventions of the 19th Century: The Telegraph

No mortal being knows tomorrow as well as he knows yesterday, but that doesn’t stop very many from predicting the future anyway—sometimes suggesting a measure of scientific precision by offering excruciating detail. Nobody knows what 2023’s GDP growth will be, nor what the temperature will be on Christmas Day in Chicago, but you can bet…


‘Surrounded by Western Civilization’: The Overlooked Curators of Culture

Despite America’s relative youth when compared to such countries as Great Britain, Italy, China, and Japan, repositories of the past abound in the United States. Our major cities feature art and history museums, orchestras, ballets, statues of great men and women, monuments, and libraries. A visitor to our nation’s capital, for instance, might spend a…


Rewind, Review and Re-Rate: 1992’s ‘The Last of the Mohicans,’ a Cinematic Masterpiece

R | 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 1992 Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) leads an attack, in “The Last of the Mohicans.” (20th Century Fox) Filmmakers who attempt to make historical dramas have to walk a careful tightrope when attempting to appeal to a mass audience. On one hand, if they focus on too much…


Arctic Giant (1942)

Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Gab: https://gab.com/EpochTV…


The Blacksmith (1922)

Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr:…


The Big Cat (1949)

A city boy arrives in his late mother’s birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old fights, and a cougar. He turns out to be pivotal in all of these. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button…