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From directors to independent cinema owners, freelancers to company owners: people in the film business on their struggles in a time of crisis.

On Tuesday, I visited my 93-year-old father who lives in an assisted living apartment a few miles away. After we talked, we said our goodbyes with more candor and tenderness than usual; I told him that I wouldn’t be coming back for a long time.

A Hulu miniseries about what happens when a small, wealthy community is forced to say the quiet part out loud

A version of the boy who cried wolf, here now are the consequences of government lies.

Some saw the collapse of the German Empire as a decisive and traumatic break in the historical continuity of the state. Nothing, in the book author’s view, more profoundly exemplified this revolt against history than National Socialism.

This is the final volume of the award-winning portrait of the earliest days of the English Reformation and the birth of capitalism, as those events played out in the life of Thomas Cromwell, courtier to king Henry VIII of England.

The 1938 Oscar-winning “That Mothers Might Live,” about the groundbreaking work a 19th century hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, explains how this man of science saved millions of lives, through the simple suggestion: wash your hands!

The "new" strawberry has twice as much sugar content compared to the average American variety; it's bigger, and has an airier texture and unexposed seeds. Although it thrives in the mountains of Japan, a New Jersey farm is now growing it here.

The goal of The Plot Against America isn’t to overwhelm audience members with suffering, or to shock us into action; instead, its aim is to remind us of our shared humanity and how essential it is for us to be vigilant against hatred of all kinds.

“Donated clothes” from California, the woman who sewed meets the wearer, “a Bosnian woman/Hiding in London”—the global coincidence that inspires “Tracking the enemy.”