Tag Archives: World War Two

An assimilated Jewish composer bonds with his peasant-class Polish housekeeper in wartime Warsaw – but will it mean escape, or existential collapse?

'The Paper Birds' by Jeanette Lynes is not only a wonderful story. You might just find yourself learning something as you read.

Learn more about the critical work undertaken by Winston Churchill, his War Cabinet, and staff during World War II at this historic underground bunker in London.

Remembering the Greatest Generation as it dims from memory.

Conductor David Hayes paired memorial works by Paul Hindemith (WWII) and John Adams (9-11) in a revelatory concert.

John Wyndham’s uplifted thought and trust in the Divine not only freed him from the terror surrounding him, it kept him healthy and safe.

Brought to visceral, organic life by the exceptional Isobel Pravda and Saul Reichlin we follow Hana Pravda and Milos Dobry through the events of WWII and the Holocaust and are heartened by their goodness and their truth as they mend their lives and recreate themselves anew.

Berlin is a sprawling, modern city with many fascinating sites evoking the cataclysmic events of the 20th century.

What better way for a country to rebuild and prosper than to feed all its children?

Criterion presents their second anthology of films from Stan Brakhage.