I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 French, American, Belgian and Swiss documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's ...
Why These Movies Are Worth Going Back to the 80's: This swashbuckling period drama brings Baroness Orczy’s classic novel to life, following the daring exploits of a British aristocrat secretly rescuing French nobility during the Revolution. With its elegant costumes, engagin...
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Saint Helena is famous for being Napoleon Bonaparte's place of exile between 1815 and his death in 1821. Longwood House, where Napoleon stayed, and Sane Valley, where he was buried, are owned by the French government, which was given them in 1858. [source] ...
It is World War I and French soldiers are sent off to a dangerous war. Bakary Diallo is a father who is enlisting but less so because of serving his country and more to be with his 17-year-old son Thierno that was unwillingly recruited into the army. The two of them are sent off...
In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and completely encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314. An American artillery observer and his...
Captain is the most ancient of military rank designations in English, in use as a general word for “military leader” since the 1400s. It came to English, like all the military ranks, from French, and the ultimate Latin root of this word is caput, meaning “head”—a captain is the...
Applauding Bugeaud's method, liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville could declare: "war in Africa is a science [source] The Algerian war was a founding event in modern Algerian history. It left long-standing scars in both French and Algerian society, and still affects some segments of society ...
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French ambassador Pierre Parisot, a personal youth friend and former musketeers mate of captain Duvall and husband of his former sweetheart Elise, brings the king rich imperial presents from Grand Mughal Shah Jahan's India, where he made a fortune. After the precious cargo is robbed by masked ...