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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Francis Bacon Paintings Sell For $142.4 Million, Break Record Auction Price

Comments (0) | 20th century, Art, art auctions, Artists, Arts+Culture, auction, british, Cezanne, Christie's, contemporary art, Cubism, Edvard Munch, Expressionism, figurative art, Francis Bacon, gay, Goya, Grand Palais, homosexual, Irish, Lucian Freud, Painting, picasso, portrait, post-war art, Romanticism, Surrealism, The Card Players, The Scream, triptych, Van Gogh, World War II

Meghan Coyle
Staff Reporter

"Three Studies of Lucian Freud" beat Edvard Much's "The Scream" for auction record.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Film Review: 'The Book Thief'

Comments (0) | 20th Century Fox, analysis, ben schnetzer, book, Brian Percival, criticism, death, Downton Abbey, Emily Watson, Film, Film and TV, geoffrey rush, Germany, imdb, markus zusak, narrator, nazi, novel, Review, Rotten Tomatoes, sophie nélisse, the book thief, World War II, WWII

Rex Lindeman
Staff Reporter

This novel adaptation has all the right ingredients, but doesn't quite hit its mark.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Who Says Asian Superheros Don’t Exist?

Comments (0) | Arts+Culture, asian, Asian Americans, comics, exhibition, Greg Pak, Japanese American National Museum, little tokyo, Marvel, Marvel and Monsters, NYU Fales, stereotypes, US comics, World War II

Marvel and Monsters Exhibition

Amy Tseng
Staff Contributor

Stereotype or truth? The comic books that tell it all.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Hitler's Bodyguard Dies At 96: Ten Things You Should Know About Rochus Misch

Comments (0) | 10 Things, adolf hitler, BBC, bodyguard, Hitler, Hitler's Bodyguard, International, interview, Listicle, Misch, Obituary, Rochus Misch, World War II, you should know

Young Nazi Soldiers, photo via Creative Commons

Sara Newman
Executive Producer

How he felt about the “friendly, nice” man. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Lore: An Untold Tale Of A Familiar War

Comments (0) | Australia, Cate Shortland, coming of age, Film and TV, Forgiveness, Germany, guilt, Hamptons Film Festival, Hitler, Holocaust, LORE, love, Music Box Films, Nazi Germany, Saskia Rosendahl, siblings, Stockholm Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, teenager, The Dark Room, UK, war, World War II

The young stars of "Lore" (Music Box Films)

Jennifer Joh
Staff Reporter

FILM REVIEW: A riveting revisiting of the Holocaust. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

iPhone 5 Hype Perpetuates Human Rights Violations

Comments (1) | apple, conflict minerals, Congo, DRC, electronics, Genocide, gold, Holocaust, human, human rights, iPhone, iphone 5, minerals, Opinion, Rights, tin, tungsten, un, United Nations, World War II

Tin Ore, one of the four "conflict minerals" at the heart of this conflict.

Jonathan Stoller-Schoff
Contributor

Why are we continuing to ignore the greatest human rights crisis since World War II?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Truman's Grandson Visits Hiroshima For Victims’ Memorial Service

Comments (0) | Atomic Bombs, clifton truman-daniel, hiroshima, International, nagasaki, radiation, truman, World War II, WWII

(The Official CTBTO Photostream, Creative Commons)

Cara Palmer
Executive Producer

He visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Saturday to present a wreath for the victims.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

France, Germany Celebrate 50 Years Of Reconciliation

Comments (31) | angela merkel, Charles de Gaulle, eu, Euro, european union, eurozone, France, Franco-German, francois hollande, Germany, International, Konrad Adenauer, Reims, Saint-Etienne-a-Arnes, World War I, World War II, World War One, World War Two

French president Francois Hollande, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Creative Commons).

Agnus Dei Farrant
Executive Producer

The countries' leaders re-enacted a unifying meeting from 1962. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Japanese-American Veterans Awarded Congressional Gold Medal

Comments (0) | Congress, congressional gold medal, japanese veterans, Japanese-American, John McCain, senator mccain, veterans, world war 2, World War II, wwII veterans

Japanese-American soldiers leaving Minidoka internment camp, 1944 (photo courtesy of Creative Commons).

Agnus Dei Farrant
Executive Producer

The soldier fought in segregated units against Japan and Axis powers.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

JDub Records Artist Clare Burson Takes Inspiration From A Relic

Comments (1) | Aaron Bisman, Adam Daniel, Ben Hesse, Brown University, Carson Daly, Clare Burson, Deb Leipzig, Diaspora Judaism, Fulbright Scholar, Holocaust, Hotel Cafe, JDub Records, Jewcy, Jewish community, Jewish culture, Judaism, Last Call With Carson Daly, Latvia, Memphis, Riga, Rounder Records, Silver and Ash, World War II, WWII

Christin Davis
Contributor

Singer-songwriter tells her family’s—and people’s—history in song.

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