by Ben Simpson | Jun 5, 2026 | Activism, Heros, People, Top Story
When the late Dr Haing S. Ngor had passed, the gold plating of his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Killing Fields had been rubbed off. He’d been so proud of his achievement that he’d stroked the colour off of it. It was the symbol of an extraordinary man...
by Lewis Kennedy | Jun 4, 2026 | Culture, Heros, Latest, Leaders, Top Story
In a museum in Kansas, the spacecraft that almost killed three men sits under the lights, fully restored. The film that told their story helped keep the space programme alive. Shannon Whetzel, curator of the Cosmosphere, on history, Hollywood, and why we still need...
by Max Astle | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, Heros, Latest, People, War
Alan Turing biographer, Jack Copeland, discusses the massive misconceptions about the World War II British hero who cracked Germany’s Enigma code. The Imitation Game focuses on Alan Turing, a mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer, who is often...
by Joe Beck | Jun 1, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, People, Top Story
On 11 April 1890, Joseph Merrick was found dead in his room at the London Hospital. Ninety years later, his life was immortalised in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), where, in one of cinema’s most famous final scenes, Merrick lies down to sleep ‘like normal...
by Harry Wenlock | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, People
When Anthony Hopkins broke down at a poolside in One Life, he was channelling something most people never saw 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...
by Joe Beck | May 28, 2026 | Heros, Latest, People
There are arguably no historic figures more associated with the Western genre than Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Yet until George Roy Hill’s eponymous 1969 classic, there was very little substance to their story, much of which remains shrouded in mystery...
