by Lewis Kennedy | Jun 1, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, People, Top Story
Forty years on from its release, ‘Lady Jane’ (1986) remains the defining screen portrait of one of history’s most overlooked figures. Directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar, and starring a nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter in her film...
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 Matthew Stanger | Jun 1, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Top Story
In Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic The Untouchables, Eliot Ness is framed as the righteous savior who rescued Chicago from the clutches of Al Capone. But historical reality reveals a very different story, a cash-strapped former agent who manufactured a myth to rewrite...
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 Max Newman | May 29, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, Top Story, War
Head of the Churchill Archives, Allen Packwood OBE, discusses the reason films about Winston Churchill avoid his controversies. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II, is often celebrated as a ‘bulldog warrior,’ with many lauding his strong...
by Max Astle | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Culture, Latest, People
Harvey Milk was a revolutionary in the United States as in 1977 he became one of the first openly gay elected officials when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors untill he was assassinated. Harvey Milk’s approach to life and politics made him...
