by Joe Beck | Jun 1, 2026 | Culture, Latest, People
Organised crime has inspired some of cinema’s most iconic stories. From the Corleone family in The Godfather (1974) to the hedonistic Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990), generations of filmmakers have sought to capture the world of the Mafia on screen. But how much of...
by Joe Beck | Jun 1, 2026 | Culture, Latest, People
From The Godfather to Goodfellas, mob movies have defined how audiences understand organised crime. But how much of that image is rooted in reality? HistoFlick spoke to The Mob Museum’s Zach Jensen about Mafia myths, cinematic glamour and the films that came...
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 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...
