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Five Seconds in the Darkest Hour (2017)
Bicester Airfield, on most mornings, is just a flat stretch of Oxfordshire land. On the morning Francesca Finch arrived, it was 1940. She was eleven years old and had no idea how seriously everyone around her was about to take that.
The Incredible Story of Dr Haing S. Ngor
Dr Haing S. Ngor had been so proud of his Oscar that he’d stroked the colour off of it. It was the symbol of an extraordinary man who’d survived the impossible to immortalise his name in historical film history. Histoflick sat down with the film’s director Roland Joffe to discuss his incredible story.
Baring The Truth: An Interview With The Original Calendar Girls
Original Calendar Girl Tricia Stewart tells us what what it was really like to strip down and smile for the camera and busts some myths that the 2003 film created
When Mafia Meets FBI: By Any Means Trailer Breakdown
The first trailer for By Any Means (2026) reveals the shocking true story of Gregory Scarpa, a brutal mafia hitman hired by the FBI. Discover how federal agents used a mobster to bypass the law and fight the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Mississippi.
The Cat Who Saved a Life, and Left a Legacy
There is a moment in A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) where James Bowen, a homeless addict barely keeping himself alive on the streets of London, wraps a makeshift bandage around the paw of a stray ginger cat he’s known for less than a week. He has no money, no stability, no real reason to believe things will get better. Just this cat.
Music Biopics: Hollywood’s safest bet?
Following the more recent success of “Michael”, Music biopics have taken over Hollywood. With dozens of musicians having their lives adapted into film, from Elvis to Weird Al, as well as more in the pipeline, Histoflick looks into the cultural and commercial forces driving this sudden popularity.
The Mauritanian and the Complexity of Putting Guantanamo to Film
After suffering fourteen years of torture in Guantanamo Bay, Mohamedou Ould-Slahi’s 2015 memoir Guantanamo Diary sits harrowingly in America’s recent memory. Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald dissects the depravity of Slahi’s imprisonment and the dilemma he faced marrying the complexities of the case with the simplistic principles of filmmaking for the 2021 film The Mauritanian.
The Real Elephant Man: How David Lynch Rewrote Joseph Merrick’s Life
David Lynch’s The Elephant Man is a deeply emotional, heartbreaking cinematic achievement that significantly distorts historical reality. The film extensively rewrote Joseph Merrick’s biography, infantilising his character, creating fictional villains, and inventing a tragic ending that stripped an adult man of the real agency and independence he possessed in life.
How a Scrapbook, a Committee, and Sir Nicholas Winton’s Conscience Changed History
When Anthony Hopkins broke down at a poolside in One Life, he was channelling something most audiences would never see in Sir Nicholas Winton himself. The man who saved 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia didn’t do emotion. But the story his daughter spent decades trying to tell and the film it ultimately became, has made the rest of us do it for him.
The Reaction of Harvey Milk’s Death and his Feature Film
Harvey Milk became one of America’s first openly gay elected officials in 1977, winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before his assassination in 1978. Decades later, his message of hope endures worldwide, celebrated through Oscar-winning films and a foundation keeping his trailblazing legacy alive across LGBTQ+ communities.
First Look at US Release Reading Lolita in Tehran
Greenwich Entertainment has unveiled the US trailer for the movie adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s acclaimed autobiography, Reading Lolita in Tehran. Starring Golshifteh Farahani, the film follows a brave professor leading a secret book club for women in mid-1990s Iran, highlighting their struggle for freedom under an oppressive Islamic regime.