5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
A 1925 silent film by Sergei Eisenstein depicting the 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin and the subsequent massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps.
A 1981 British film by Hugh Hudson about two runners — one Jewish, one a Christian missionary — competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics while confronting British establishment prejudice.
A 2017 film by Christopher Nolan depicting the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation from three temporal perspectives — land (one week), sea (one day), and air (one hour).
FX's 2024 limited series adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel — following an English navigator stranded in feudal Japan during a period of civil war — praised as the definitive dramatization of the Sengoku period for Western audiences.
James Cameron's 1997 epic romance-disaster film depicting the sinking of the RMS Titanic through a fictional love story between a wealthy woman (Rose) and a poor artist (Jack) — the highest-grossing film of its era and a defining cultural phenomenon of the 1990s.