[title] image Review: 42 (2013)
The new film 42 tells the story of Jackie Robinson’s heroic effort to integrate Major League Baseball.
[title] image The Sapphires (2012)
Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires is the best new historical film that you most likely have not seen, yet.  It is based on Tony Briggs’ 2004 play with the same name and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
[title] image Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind "Les Misérables"
As a French historian, I was bombarded with questions from friends, family members, and even strangers about whether I was excited to see “Les Miz,” the film version of the wildly popular stage musical, which was released in December. For some reason, knowing that someone who studies French history is excited to see Les Misérables makes people want to see the film more.
[title] image Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
I was ’bout fourteen years old when President Lincoln set us all free in 1863. The war was still goin’ on and I’m tellin’ you right when I say that my folks and friends round me did not regard freedom as a unmixed blessin’.          Daniel Waring, enslaved in South Carolina, interviewed in South Carolina, ca. 1937.
[title] image Elevate (2012)
Anne Buford's documentary Elevate focuses on several Senegalese youths and their attempts to make it out of Senegal through basketball.
[title] image What’s Missing from ‘Argo'
Argo, Ben Affleck’s latest film, is set against the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
[title] image A Historian Views Spielberg's Lincoln
Steven Spielberg’s latest historical drama chronicles the 16th President’s final months and the struggle for passage of the 13th Amendment by the House of Representatives in 1865.
[title] image The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”
“The Descendants,” directed by Alexander Payne, opens with a voice-over by protagonist Matt King (played by George Clooney), a wealthy Oahu lawyer, about how everyone assumes that Hawaii is a paradise.
[title] image For Greater Glory (2012)
"¡Viva Cristo Rey!
[title] image Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
It’s not often that a cinematic production is as intriguing on-screen as off, but the acclaimed period film Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) by director Marcel Carné is that rare breed. The film attempts to
[title] image Moneyball (2011)
Although its subject is one of the more interesting moments in recent sports history, Moneyball (2011) offers surprisingly little of that history. 
[title] image A Separation (2011)
A Separation is an Iranian drama directed by Asghar Farhadi. As is indicated by the title, the film focuses on the separation of Nader and Simin, an affluent couple residing in Tehran.
[title] image Footnote (2011)
Is family solidarity more important than academic fame? Is empiricism a better guide to historical truth than theory? Is intellectual self-esteem generated internally, or externally, by communal acknowledgment?
[title] image Camila (1984)
Romeo and Juliet may be the most well known tale of star-crossed lovers, but ask any Argentine and they will know the story of Camila O’Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez just as well.