THE DRAMATIC OPENING SEQUENCE OF THE 1988 CRIME THRILLER For Queen and Country begins with a slow crane shot moving down on a group of drunken British soldiers stumbling out of a nondescript pub. e measured pacing of the scene depicts a moment of bellicose revelry that betrays a more ...
“It is unknown whether the men of the Dragoons knew what would become of the slaves who they took to the British lines,”wroteSellick in his dissertation. By this stage of the war, he added, the British had enough troops to defend Charleston, so ...
Written and directed by Remi Weekes, His House is a horror film for the modern era — and one of the best British films to come out of 2020. Two refugees from South Sudan arrive in London after a harrowing journey that killed their daughter. They try to move forward with their new ...
Friend, Robert– [4 Pages, 2.5MB] – Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jones Friend (1920–2019) was a Tuskegee airman in WW2 and led the USAF’s Project Blue Book from 1958 to 1963. He also served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He had a 28 year military career. Note: All fil...
Well, evidently the Russian army is sending wounded soldiers with canes back to the front lines. Ukraine hit yet another Russian oil refinery, this one in Volgograd. Sudden Putin Death Syndrome strike again. “Russian singer who donated to Ukraine and called Putin an ‘idiot’ mysteriously ...
Black '47: Directed by Lance Daly. With Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox. Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reu
Black Sun delivers more action and even more fights and frights, as the un-dead legion breaks out in its ruthless quest for power. The year is 1945, the closing stages of WW2, and a German scientist by the name of Klausener is working on a frightening new technology the power to creat...
“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that British colonists asserted to justify theirDeclaration of Independence. Nor were they included among the “People of the United States” who established the Constitution in order to “promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of ...
fought tyrants and dictators and even apprehended bothAdolf Hitlerand Josef Stalin, who were then allies, in a special comic prepared in 1940 forLookmagazine. Captain Marvel and other superheroes also battled Nazi and Japanese soldiers on the covers of their comics, even before the December 1941...
My wife sold a 2 foot tall version to a tiny hot chocolate shop shop, at the start of the Main Street in Heidelberg...run by a 85 year old woman who was bored at home. As black soldiers found out after WW2, the Europeans were not so prejudiced as America.(Not to say there wasn...