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Reflecting over the top films of 2018 (see our choices here and here), Headstuff writer Brian Quinn traces a thematic through-line revealing a greater cultural context. In a year that began with “Fire and Fury”, which saw national…

We are closing in on the top spot for the HeadStuff Film writers’ Best Movies of 2018. If you haven’t caught our picks for #20 to #11 check it out here. Let’s jump back in with our Top Ten. #10 Annihilation - Dir. Alex Garland Ever…

I was born in a country that today doesn’t exist anymore. It was called the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany. Founded in 1949, after the Second World War, as a socialist bulwark against West Germany, it became a satellite…

Captain Bauer: Fudge is not a person. He wasn’t in the war. Jimmy McGill: Well, neither was Tom Cruise and look what Top Gun did for you. - Better Call Saul, Season 3, Episode 1, Mabel It was good news when Val Kilmer donned an Ice Man…

Treading the fine line between past and present, This Week, in History is a round-up of the latest historical events and findings which continue to impact the world today. This week, we look at the city of New Orleans as if confronts its…

Last Week: The Baader-Meinhof Death Night The body of Max Weinberg lay outside the front door of Apartment 1, Connollystraße 31 in Munich’s Olympic village. Coach of the Israeli wrestling team at the 1972 Olympics, he was the first…

“I was seduced by World War Two and John Wayne movies”     -Anonymous Veteran in Mark Baker’s Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (1981), p. 12. On June 23rd, screenwriter and Vietnamese War…

There are lovers' secrets, family secrets, State secrets, secret codes, handshakes and diaries. Have you a secret and can you keep one? Secrets ignite our thirst for knowledge and everybody has at least one. Even as I write this I have…

Sometimes looking into history is like being both short and long-sighted. Things far away are hazy, of course. Our sole source for a lot of early British traditions, for example, is the writings of the Romans who were conquering them. But…