One of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen “Bloody” Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith.She has no heir, and her greatest fear–that […]
The Great Debaters
Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. […]
We Are Marshall
Southern Airways Flight 932 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 that Marshall University chartered to transport the Thundering Herd football team to Greenville, North Carolina, via Stallings Field in Kinston, North Carolina, and back to Marshall’s campus in Huntington, West Virginia. On the evening of November 14, 1970, the aircraft clipped trees on a ridge just […]
The Queen
In the 1997 general election, Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) becomes Britain’s prime minister. However, the Queen (Helen Mirren) is slightly wary of Blair and his pledge to modernize Britain, but he promises to respect the Royal Family. Three months later, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash at the Alma Bridge tunnel in […]