The U.S. announced more than $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, which is bracing for a long-feared invasion by China. The ...

Andrzej Wajda’s film The Promised Land became an instant classic of Polish cinema after its release in 1975. It received an ...

She starred in such films as 'The Blue Angel' and 'Murder, Inc.,' but Fox declined to renew her contract after she and the ...

Stanley Baxter, who has died aged 99, was a comedian, character actor and pantomime dame best known for his lavish television ...

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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery.

The Cold War hit the movies in 1947 when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) descended on Hollywood armed with the names of leading film folk suspected of being communists or left-wing ...

A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and ...

The Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from next year's calendar of entrance fee-free ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal shooting of conservative ...

The most impactful deaths in 2025 from the pope to Ozzy Osbourne and Charlie Kirk - Here are impactful deaths from around the ...

Historian Muriel Blaive speaks about the role of Central European “memory institutes” and coming to terms with the communist past.