‘I was the kid whose Dad was a spy’: Life as the son of an infamous CIA pilot whose story inspired a Spielberg Cold War drama

by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, Latest, People, War

Shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission at the height of the Cold War, Francis Gary Powers’s story of being captured and exchanged for a Russian spy went on to be immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. His son, Gary Powers Jr discusses...

 Checkmating the Union: How a lone American Prodigy Fought the Cold War on 64 Squares

by Matthew Stanger | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People, Sport

For generations, chess had been the Soviets’ game, a symbol of strategy and intellect that the US simply couldn’t attain. This wasn’t until Bobby Fischer’s American Dream style took offence to the Eastern reign and defeated Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Chess...

How an author’s discovery of the psychiatrist responsible for evaluating Nazi officers led to the film Nuremberg 

by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, Present Day, War

Jack El-Hai published the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist in 2013; last year, it was adapted into Nuremberg, a film depicting the psychological standoff between Hermann Göring and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley before the Nuremberg trials. But what inspired El-Hai to...

Fact or folklore? The Revenant and the history that inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar-winning depiction of a legendary frontiersman 

by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People

Centring on the life of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century fur trapper who survives a near-fatal grizzly bear attack, Tom Preston delves into the historical truth behind The Revenant for HistoFlick to reveal just how far the triple Oscar-winning epic strays from reality. One...

Spartacus: the film that broke Hollywood’s blacklist

by Ben Simpson | May 23, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, Top Story

How Kubrick and Trumbo forged Spartacus into a symbol of rebellion during the civil rights era in America, and how Kirk Douglas’ fight against oppression goes beyond the film reel. The day is October 28th, 1947. American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo stood before the...

“They were saying that I took the sport of Ski jumping from Page 58 down to Page One” The Remarkable True Story of Eddie the Eagle.

by Moleed Mire | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People, Present Day, Sport

When people think of sporting underdogs, one name that often comes to mind is Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards. The British ski jumper had captured the hearts of millions at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games and inspired his own biopic starring Taron Egerton and Hugh...