Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Masaryk Case: the Murder of Democracy in Czechoslovakia * * * *

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World War II altered forever Americans "world-view" and how we view international conflicts and war. Though easily forgotten, Ame...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

History of the German Freikorps * * *

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A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis (at Amazon) The book begins at the end of WWI as civil unrest is spreading within Germany due t...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

Hanover Street *

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Hanover Street (DVD on Amazon) What can I say? I was overcome with Indy nostalgia. Last week, I went to see the new Indy IV movie and so ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Idi i smotri (Come and See, 1985) * * * * *

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Come and See (link to DVD on Amazon) Ethnic cleansing of the Slavs living in the Eastern European lands including Poland, the Baltics, Ukra...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Pupendo * * *

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Pupendo (link to DVD on Amazon) "One day a little tapeworm poked her head out of an anus, looked around at the big wide world. She p...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress * * *

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (DVD on Amazon) Not wanting to sleep the other night, I flipped through Netflix instant viewing an...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)* * * *

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Judgment at Nuremberg (DVD at Amazon) It took me a really long time to watch this film, even though it was an Oscar winning film on a topic...

Derzu Uzala (1975)* * *

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Dersu Uzala (link to DVD on Amazon) Derzu Uzala (1975) is a film by the great Japenese director, Akira Kurosawa, that is set right around t...