World War II

In the Fog's WWII Has the Inevitability of an Avalanche

Emperor: General MacArthur is Not Ready for His Close-Up

Honor Flight

Orchestra of Exiles

Ashes and Diamonds

MIS: Human Secret Weapon

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Satirizing War in Technicolor: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Buried Prayers

Translating an Epic Life in The Woman With the 5 Elephants

Ilonko Krauss, Holocaust Survivor, Hit by Minivan

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

A Thumbnail History of Munich's Hofbrauhaus

kunstgymszbadde.comWatercolor of Hofbräuhaus around 1919 by fledgling Munich art student Adolf Hitler. He would soon be using the beer hall to stage Nazi rallies.​ When I was an elementary school student in Minneapolis, German was a required subject. It was a German part of the country, t ... More >>

Facebook Imbeciles Think Japan Tsunami Is Karmic Payback for Pearl Harbor

​It seems that no disaster is too grave for Facebook's large population of assholes to say offensive things about. The newest thing is that people are taking to their Facebook statuses to say that Japan "deserves" yesterday's tragic earthquake because it's "karma" for Pearl Harbor. It's happen ... More >>

Alexander Nevsky

Adelheid

Seven Men from Now

An Autumn Afternoon

The Ambiguous "Patton" Revels in the General's Lurid Egocentricity

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 26, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 9 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris "PATTON" seems disquieting to many critics simply for sticking to its subject without any undue second-guessing. A right-wing movie might have chuckled over the Allied d ... More >>

Freedom Fighters for France in WWII Epic Army of Crime

Illuminati Nuptials? Clinton Wedding Featured Spy Poem "The Life That I Have" by Leo Marks

​Amid details of the weak star power at the Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky wedding provided by the New York Times was a curious tidbit: "A friend of the couple read the poem 'The Life That I Have' by Leo Marks." A nation of voyeurs, clamoring for details of the ceremony, read about this po ... More >>

See Rock City and The Battle of Stalingrad Think Small

The Transport Group and the Lincoln Center Festival mount shows that could use bigger aspirations

Starship Troopers

A Streetcar Named Desire

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun

Flying Leathernecks

The Gang's All Here

My Name Is Ivan

Reunion in France

The Conspiracy Begins This December?

Judging the Torture Presidency of George W. Bush

Building a case for a prosecution that likely won't happen

Going Dutch

Back in his native Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft one slick, quick WWII thriller

Fathers and Daughters

A pair of vets

After the Gold Rush

Talking San Francisco past and present with K.M. Soehnlein, gay novelist

First and Only Soviet Women War Flick

Hookers Infest a Bombed-Out, Post-War Tokyo

Unions With Soviets: Nameless Diarist, Forbidden Topic

A Place in the Sun: Retro Remembers RKO's Renaissance Man

Scratching the Surface

Dole's own first Purple Heart doesn't exactly made you bleed for him

How the U.S. 'Master Race' Helped Breed Selective Science

Hear My Voice

Andrew O'Hagan Does the Fame-Pathology Novel Right

Our Rickety Nation-Building

The Neocon Job

Shell-Shock and Awe

On the Past—and Present—of Military Psychiatry

Similarities Between Iraq and Northern Ireland

Saddam's Army Could Be a 'Nest of Vipers'

Invisible Cities

Mann Handled

Waking the Dead

Look Back in Anger

In Visible Cities

Return Trips