The film camera sweeps across the landscape, taking in flat plains, gushing waterfalls and a dusty country town. The color is brilliant, the emptiness palpable and the soundtrack soars dramatically as warplanes bomb a city. ...more

November 30, 2008

In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels penned their Communist Manifesto - "a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of communism" - in a cabaret overlooking Brussels' spectacular Grand-Place. ...more

September 21, 2008

On a typical day in this fishing town on Africa's northwest coast, sea gull calls nearly drown the chatter of fishermen lined up along the sea wall. The birds, their white wings splayed out by the wind, sail inches above the heads of veiled women who walk the promenade. ...more

February 16, 2008