Freebie of the week: As a producer and director, Jon Avnet has been behind some thoughtful movies ("Fried Green Tomatoes") as well as films that have tackled intense topics ("The War," "Black Swan").

The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) and Taube Philanthropies present the film screening of Uprising (NBC, 2001), directed by Jon Avnet from a screenplay by Paul Brinkman and Jon Avnet ...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was ...

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - Visitors to the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising will now be able to grasp the scale of devastation inflicted on the Polish capital by Nazi German forces in World War Two with ...

The 1973 Bangkok student uprising and the so-called "People's War" that followed undoubtedly is a fascinating political chapter ripe for robust narrative treatment. "The Moonhunter" fails to fully tap ...