If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It’s a cliche, but it’s true. Here’s another one: history repeats itself. The best way to educate yourself about world affairs and their ...

There is a distinguished tradition of the British being rather sniffy about American films depicting the Second World War. It ...

Just as there’s been no shortage of wars, and movies about said wars, so too is there no shortage of documentaries about war. Some of these are TV shows, and are arguably more suited to that format ...

There's no shortage of World War II documentaries. But every so often, a filmmaker finds a new doorway into a familiar chapter of history and suddenly it stops being "about then" and becomes ...

The word “samurai” is thrown around a lot in popular culture, but this six-part series gets down to the brass tacks of what it actually means. Covering the era of feudal Japan from 1551 to 1616, the ...

Many pro-Ukraine westerners (but not all) are quick to denounce Russian-Canadian documentarian Anastasia Trofimova’s new film “Russians at War,” which is currently making its way around the film ...

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev only met in person at the Sundance premiere of the Ukraine war documentary. By Brendan Bellomo From the start, Slava Leontyev and I, as co-directors of the ...

“Hearts and Minds,” the 1974 anti-war film that caused a furor at the Academy Awards when it won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, has been named recipient of the 2025 Legacy Award at the Cinema Eye ...

Underrated war films like The Ascent, The Burmese Harp, and A Midnight Clear earn masterpiece status through great stories of ...

MIFF showcases Borun Thokchom's anti-war documentary "Battlefield," exploring World War II's lasting impact on ...

From Master and Commander to Tigerland, these near-perfect war movies delivered brilliance, yet never got the recognition ...