In April 1942, sixteen B-25 bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet in one of the most daring missions of World War II—the legendary Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. The crews knew their attack on ...

Born the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Toshiko “Tonko” Doi of Chicago was just a baby when she and her family were forced into Japanese incarceration camps by the United States government, ...

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Oscar. A play actor originally, Arliss first starred in the 1911 Louis Napoleon Parker play "Disraeli," which was later turned first into a silent ...

The name on the resident registration card (issued in 1983) of Francesca, Rhee Syng-man’s wife (1900–1992), is ‘Francisca ...

In reality, it was a mass expulsion carried out despite the Supreme Court's recognition of tribal sovereignty. Raphael Lemkin ...

Eighty-four years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

In 1952 the American director Joseph L. Mankiewicz released 5 Fingers, a film in which James Mason portrays a spy named ...

Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent” has grabbed Oscars attention with nominations for best international film and best ...

It’s 1977, a “time of great mischief” in Brazil, and in the opening minutes of Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s “The Secret Agent,” ...

Set against the fantastical backdrop of Brazil’s annual carnival, the narrative blurs reality and recollection, building a ...

Long before he starred in Narcos and The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura was the lead in the action films Elite Squad and Elite ...