Tag: Arts & Culture

The Earnest Cowboy Silversmith

Canadian silversmith and cowboy Scott Hardy wants the world to see the beauty and elegance of Western craftsmanship. He feels blessed to honor his culture in this way.  Hardy’s maternal grandparents raised him in Saskatchewan, after his parents divorced when he was 3 years old. He’s the fifth generation in his family of ranchers and homesteaders….


Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together. 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…


Eternally Yours (1939)

Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical. 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:…


Theater Review: ‘The Kite Runner’: Coming to Terms With the Past

NEW YORK—”There is a way to be good again” is the most telling phrase uttered during the Broadway drama “The Kite Runner.” Adapted by Matthew Spangler and based on Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel, the show is an involving, if somewhat flawed, tale of friendship, betrayal, familial relationships and rivalry, and class distinctions. In 1975, Amir…


What Is the Connection Between Modern Motivation and Age-Old Hope? Part 1

Is there a connection between motivation and hope? And do we need to know about it? Let’s immediately dismiss ideas like that found in a Russian proverb: “In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.” We needn’t talk about hope as being mere wishful thinking. Let’s talk about something much more powerful and essential….


Images of Hope: The Good Shepherd

By the third century A.D., the Roman Empire had devolved into an amalgamation of jaded peoples, living with constant war and under endless political instability. They numbed their existential anxiety with pleasures and luxuries and explored myriad religions to try to fill the spiritual void of their age. The Roman identity had lost meaning for…


The General (1926)

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines. 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…


Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (1942)

When police interfere with a reckless scientist’s experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop. 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:…


The 2 Monsters of the French Revolution Who Were Consumed by Power—and Lost Their Heads on the Same Day

“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.” The man who spoke those words was one of history’s premiere authorities on the subject. He was a monster himself, made so by the toxin we call “power.” On July 28, 1794, he and a famous cohort departed this earth…


Iconic Films: ‘Dr. Strangelove’: Director Stanley Kubrick’s Satirical Cold War Masterpiece

PG | 1h 34min | Comedy, Satire, War | 29 January 1964 (USA) The third of four feature films about war by director Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove” (or formally: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”) is easily his most mainstream-accessible offering and arguably the greatest movie in his sterling, nearly flawless catalogue. As…