Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) is an ambiguous historical figure along the lines of T.E. Lawrence "of Arabia" (1888-1935), a rather queer British person who used Empire as an excuse to have adventures, ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Angelina Jolie is set to premiere her ...

Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell in Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert." The subject of “Queen of the Desert,” writer-director Werner Herzog’s first narrative feature since 2009, is Gertrude Bell, an ...

“Letters From Baghdad: The True Story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq,” directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, is an experiment in documentary form — an unfortunate choice that perhaps looked good ...

She came into Baghdad after months in one of the world’s most forbidding deserts, a stoic, diminutive 45-year-old English woman with her small band of men. She had been through lawless lands, held at ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

She roamed across deserts, loading camels with evening gowns and cutlery, slipping through ancient ruins like a spy and finding herself the lone woman at the center of a struggle that defined the ...

The actress is attached to play the pioneering woman leader who helped lay the groundwork for the modern Middle East. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Scott also is mulling directing the pic, one of ...

THIS excellent biography of Gertrude Bell, the woman behind the creation of modern Iraq, goes far towards making her a true heroine, a Gertrude of Arabia to match her friend, T.E. Lawrence. Indeed, ...

In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk. In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk during a hot summer’s ...

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations isn’t the first biography of the singular archaeologist, spy, poet, mountaineer, and Arabist who helped map the borders and choose the first king ...