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FILM: Knowledge or Certainty (1973, Jacob Bronowski, 50 min) In 1973 the BBC broadcast an 11-part documentary on cultural evolution written and hosted by Polish-born mathematician and poet Jacob Bronowski. Its title, The Ascent of Man, played on the title of Darwin’s 1871 book on…
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Directed by Margarethe von Trotta In 1960 Israeli agents arrested fugitive SS war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina & took him to Jerusalem for trial & execution. Political theorist Hannah Arendt covered his trial for The New Yorker in articles then published as the controversial…
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Directed by Cate Shortland In the chaos of 1945, as Allied forces sweep across Germany, 14-year-old Lore is ordered by her Nazi parents to take her four younger siblings to safety at their grandmother’s home on the northern sea, more than 500 miles away, since…
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Directed by Jean-Jacques Arnaud The battle for Stalingrad (1942-43) remains legendary for the extreme losses & suffering endured by the city’s people, the defending Soviet troops & invading Germans, all stranded without outside support or supplies over one of the coldest winters on record. Based…