Introduction The Silk Road (Japanese: 敦煌, Hepburn: Tonkō), also known as Dun-Huang, is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is the Mogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove in Dunhuang, Western China, located along the Silk Road… Read More
Introduction Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 American comedy drama film directed by David Miller and starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. Outline In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field (AAF) military hospital, located in the… Read More
Introduction Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America’s first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the 07… Read More
Introduction A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 American romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin, and starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, was adapted from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm, for which… Read More
Introduction News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama film co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, and starring Tom Hanks and introducing Helena Zengel. The film follows a Civil War veteran who must return a young girl who was stolen by… Read More
Introduction Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Alex Kurtzman serving as showrunner. Outline The second season of the… Read More
Introduction Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment, and Living Dead Guy Productions, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts serving… Read More
Introduction The Crimson Field is a British period drama television series that was broadcast beginning on BBC One on 06 April 2014. The series shows the lives of medics and the patients at a fictional field hospital in France during the First World War. Outline Joan is arrested and charged with aiding an enemy to… Read More
Introduction The Crimson Field is a British period drama television series that was broadcast beginning on BBC One on 06 April 2014. The series shows the lives of medics and the patients at a fictional field hospital in France during the First World War. Outline The disruptive Major Ballard, head of a troop of Indian… Read More
Introduction The Crimson Field is a British period drama television series that was broadcast beginning on BBC One on 06 April 2014. The series shows the lives of medics and the patients at a fictional field hospital in France during the First World War. Outline Kitty goes to a hotel to see Elliot Vincent, who… Read More
