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Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime...

Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...

The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def...

You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo...

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The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...

What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...

It’s easy to think of World War I as a European war, but fierce fighting all over the Middle East brought about great changes on socio-economic, cu...

Before the birth of Kansas City jazz, the musical community served up ragtime and blues. In 1917, the military-themed anthem “Over There” became a...