Civil War

  • Movie News

5 Ugly Truths About Abraham Lincoln Exposed in Netflix’s Amend: The Fight for America

Abraham Lincoln has long been celebrated in American cinema with films like Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president.…

6 months ago
  • Podcasts

The Syrian Regime Disappeared Their Friend — the Film Ayouni Remembers Him

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/yasmin-fedda-ayouni Yasmin Fedda and Eric Steuer first met when their mutual friend, Bassel Khartibal, disappeared in Syria — or more…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Ken Burns Rejects 'Toxic Cesspool' of the Internet: 'We're Interested in Deep Dives'

Ken Burns is well aware that the subject of his latest documentary, Hemingway, would be judged harshly in today's social…

3 years ago
  • Spring 2017

Eye Piece: DP Philippe Le Sourd Shoots the Human Textures in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled

With The Beguiled—set at a girls’ boarding school in the South during the Civil War, and adapted by Sofia Coppola…

7 years ago
  • Documentary

Ken Burns: Netflix is Skywriting, Making a Doc is Like Making Maple Syrup, Human History Will Repeat Itself

The Ken Burns effect, says Artemis Joukowsky, isn't just an editing feature. "It’s the whole way that you experience history…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2016

How They Did It: Men Go to Battle Pulled off “DIY Period Piece” by Hacking a Reenactment

Early in the process of research for Men Go to Battle, my co-writer and producer Kate Lyn Sheil and I…

8 years ago