World War II

Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier

The first headstone stamped "Unknown" since 1984 is the result not of war's chaos, but of human error
  • Upcoming movies: Awesome or awful?

    Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton's latest, Britney and Lindsay do Bergman, and leaked Anne Frank-David Mamet dialogue
  • Is Tarantino good for the Jews?

    "Inglourious Basterds" depicts Jews pursuing ultraviolent, absurdist revenge against their Nazi oppressors. Discuss
  • My dying grandpa's not at peace

    I fear there's nothing worse than struggling against the inevitable
  • Rape in Berlin: Facing the truth

    Thousands of German women were sexually assaulted near the end of WW II. Brutal payback, a war crime or both?
  • Farewell to the American Century

    Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant.
  • Weekend roundup: Movies not to miss

    A tender porn-theater family saga, with boils; a sexy ghost story from Macedonia; Al Pacino's junkie breakthrough; and the story of World War II heroine Hannah Senesh.
  • A Holocaust movie unlike any other

    French screen legend Jeanne Moreau will make you weep in Israeli director Amos Gitai's breathtaking and unconventional "One Day You'll Understand."
  • "Is McCain a competent fellow?"

    When President Johnson asked that question about John McCain's father, Adm. Jack McCain, the answer he got was not flattering. But McCain got a promotion from LBJ anyway.
  • "Greatest film ever" or a cream cake?

    Mocked on initial release and long unavailable, Max Ophüls' wide-screen spectacle "Lola Montès" returns in a lustrous restoration. So what's the big deal?
  • Torture porn, made beautiful

    Pasolini's "Salò" blends fascism, de Sade and upscale art cinema into the most notorious film in the medium's history. Watch it at home!
  • The miracle of Spike Lee

    The cinema icon talks about reshaping American mythology with his WWII epic, "Miracle at St. Anna," and what Hollywood would look like if he were in charge.
  • America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians!

    I used to think America was just weird; now it's feeling a lot like 1932.
  • A Jewish family's hidden shame

    Claude Miller's wrenching "A Secret" distills the French nation's Nazi-era guilt into one family's incredible-but-true wartime story.
  • I married a Nazi -- the comedy

    Czech master Jirí Menzel's black comedy about a lovable innocent turned Nazi collaborator is a work of nettlesome genius. Will anybody notice?
  • Before Bergman and "The Crucible"

    Carl Dreyer's erotic witch-hunt drama "Day of Wrath," made in Nazi-occupied Denmark, resurfaces with shattering clarity after a digital restoration.
  • See Tarantino's next movie right now (sort of)

    Eager to catch the ultraviolent WWII shootout "Inglorious Bastards," loaded with blaxploitation beefcake and naked chicks? Come on over!
  • The Little Tramp's killer comedy

    How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
  • Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match!

    A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?
  • Israel's Nazi-porn problem

    Hot she-wolves of the SS, rescued from the memory hole. Also: Buddhism for murderers, housewife seeks Asian stud and more.
  • How "Slaughterhouse Five" was born

    Kurt Vonnegut's new posthumous collection reveals the seeds of a modern masterpiece.
  • Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain

    A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.
  • Irène Némirovsky's life after death

    "Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite?
  • Bush's old world disorder

    Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
  • Uncovering Gertrude and Alice

    Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself.
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