Archival Spaces 248 Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1964) Downloaded 31 July 2020 I can’t believe it has taken me nearly fifty years to catch up with Kevin Brownlow’s first feature film, It Happened Here, which had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on 1 November 1964. I first became aware of the film sometime in lateContinue reading “248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here”
Tag Archives: World War II
246: Fall of France, June 1940
Archival Spaces 246 Lion Feuchtwanger and the Fall of France, June 1940 Downloaded 3 July 2020 Eighty years ago, the German Wehrmacht began its invasion of France and Benelux (10 May 1940), surrounding British and French forces at Dunkirk, and occupying Paris on 14 June. It was a staggering defeat for the French, whose militaryContinue reading “246: Fall of France, June 1940”
241: Show Trial. HUAC and Hollywood
Archival Spaces 241 Thomas Doherty’s Show Trial. Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2019) Uploaded 24 April 2020 Thomas Doherty’s Show Trial Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist relies on original historical evidence, including documents, newsreels, contemporary newspaper reports, and the official protocols of the HUAC Hearings of October 1947, to recreate a historicalContinue reading “241: Show Trial. HUAC and Hollywood”
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