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Manager of Giants: The Tactics, Temper and True Record of John McGraw

Lou Hernandez

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For decades prior to the rise of Babe Ruth, the most recognized name in baseball was John McGraw. An...

Ice Station: The Creation of Halley VI; Britain's Pioneering Antarctic Research Station

Ruth Slavid and James Morris

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Halley VI Research Station is the first fully re-locatable research station in the world. It was...

The Old Nurse's Story

John Milton and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands...

Hoping it Might be So: Poems, 1974-2000

Kit Wright

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"Hoping It Might Be So" brings together all of Kit Wright's previous collections for adults as well...

Awakenings (1990)

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Robert De Niro and Robin Williams star in Penny Marshall's moving film adaptation of Dr. Oliver...

Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema: Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique

Lindsay Coleman

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With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this...

A Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects

Alan Moss and Keith Skinner

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Explore Britain's dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away...

Michael Korda recommended Paths of Glory (1957) in Movies (curated)

Paths of Glory (1957)

1957 | Classics, Drama, War

8.9

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"All right, Stanley Kubrick was a genius, the master of the big, ambitious film that stuns the senses, like 2001: A Space Odyssey. But Paths of Glory is one of the last great triumphs of black-and-white filmmaking. It is also a tribute to the talent of Kirk Douglas, who here takes on the role of a French colonel in the trenches of the First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk’s genius as an actor—his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister-in-law. Nobody has ever captured the First World War better on film (except perhaps for Jean Renoir in Grand Illusion, which is in a class by itself). A heartbreaking giant of a film, not a bad shot or a wasted frame in it; perfect filmmaking."

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