Oppenheimer (2023)
The personal story of Robert Oppenheimer from his student days to hi days at Los Alamos to the Manhattan Project to the revocation of his security clearance.
RRR (2022)
A spectacular adventure film with two Indian heroes, at times friends, then enemies, fighting against the British Raj for justice & freedom.
The Fablemans (2022)
The fictionalized story of how his family & others influenced Steven Spielberg to become a great film director.
Important Books in My Life: Part 2
This is part of a series of books that have been influential in my life, going back to grade and high school and on to the present. It would be nice if these posts started a dialogue–what books influenced you, the reader, and why or how? I was a senior in high school when …
Writing With Fire (2022)
Dalit female journalists staffing a newspaper in northern India are often the only ones brave enough to advocate the rights of raped women & seek improved conditions for villagers.
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (2022)
The incredible courage & persistence of the Ukrainians in resisting tyranny in their Maidan Revolution of 2013-14 is graphically depicted.
Son of the South (2020)
Writer-director Barry Alexander Brown’s film is based on Bob Zellner’s well-received 2008 autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. The author’s move from sympathetic but do-nothing white moderate to zealous C-R activist is a good illustration of Dr. King’s criticism in his famous prison letter. At first …
Bird on the Mast (1971)
A man seeking highs in drugs becomes suicidal and is helped to learn to meditate by a caring Christian, & he in turn reaches out to a cellmate when in prison.
The White Tiger (2020)
Horatio Alger would not approve of poor Balram’s means of rising from his low status as driver for a corrupt Indian family to wealthy entrepreneur.
A Dangerous Life (1988)
The reporter is fictional, but this film is based on the history of the Philippines when Corrie Aquino inspired her people to topple the Marcos dictatorship by standing against guns and tanks in the streets.