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3 hours ago · The American Civil War happened nearly 200 years ago, and began when then-president Abraham Lincoln pushed to outlaw slavery throughout the country.The Southern states weren't too happy about this ...
4 days ago · BreakPoint commentaries offer incisive content people can't find anywhere else; content that cuts through the fog of relativism and the news cycle with truth and compassion. Founded by Chuck ...
5 days ago · The movies based on true stories that are wrong include Braveheart, JFK, and Pocahontas, all of which take major liberties with the facts. In the case of Gladiator, one of the historical advisors even quit because of all the problems. Some of the movies make intentional choices to change history, like in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet or Sofia ...
4 days ago · Breakpoint. Breakpoint audio commentaries, hosted by John Stonestreet, air on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: A Graduation Speech to Remember May 17, 2024 John Stonestreet Soviet dissident Nobel Prize winner had prophetic words for America.
5 days ago · Platoon. In 1986 Oliver Stone wrote and directed one of the most brutal films about the Vietnam war, a film that follows a Platoon of soldiers in 1967 with the 5th Infantry Division near the ...
4 days ago · Ken Burns is considered one of the best documentary filmmakers of all time. His documentar ies The War, Prohibition, and The Civil War are all available on Netflix. Netflix released an original documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, in 2014. Errol Morris's The Unknown Known is another great historical documentary that looks at more ...
1 day ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
