When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in A.D. 79, it preserved a mosaic showing Alexander the Great defeating Persian king Darius III at the Battle of Issus.

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Ten years before being honored by Cannes, Panahi found a creative way to direct movies to evade prosecution: moonlighting as ...

They listened on the radio and read their local newspaper about a war threatening our West Coast, and a growing war in Europe ...

From "Sentimental Value" to "It Was Just an Accident," we parse the ins and outs of this year's Oscar campaigns.

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It Was Just an Accident showcases Jafar Panahi at his best, blending raw emotion, and political critique in one of Iranian ...

Trump said the U.S. attacked three nuclear sites in Iran. The United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced. B-2 bombers dropped a number of Massive ...

Director Jafar Panahi confronted his Iran prison sentence, saying 'I know my films don't please the government' but 'I will ...