Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

Or, why families under siege make for great movies.

The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.

On the nostalgic and technophobic motives of the recent boom in suburban fantastic media.

More than just an upset, "Saving Private Ryan" losing the Best Picture Oscar to "Shakespeare in Love" changed how Academy Awards are won.

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.

Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.

On the moral courage of Daniel Ellsberg.

The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

The Hollywood overhauls that got us from Bogart to Batman.

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

From the meh (A Beautiful Mind) to the stunningly beautiful (Moonlight), and the classic (All About Eve) to the god-awful (Birdman).