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War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The defeat of Napoleon, 1806-1815

In 1810 Napoleon's France ruled or controlled the greater part...

David Lean's 1945 film, Brief Encounter, is a classic example...

Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano, with music by Michael...

What happens when opera meets film? From its earliest days...

The final lecture in this series asks why Germans kept...

The Western is a genre closely associated with film from...

By December 1941 the Third Reich had reached the apogee...

The second lecture in this series describes the astonishing and...

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece is inextricably tied up with its...

Private Harry Farr was a British soldier executed for alleged...