The war genre in the 1970s became crueler, darker, and angrier, exploring the conflict's contradictions in movies like The Deer Hunter and Catch-22.

Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece, but movies like Platoon and Come and See are more powerful and resonant ...

A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...

In 1942 the U.S. State Department was in a quandary about what to do with the members of Vichy France’s embassy, who, while ...