Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict and atrocities, dies at 97. May 26, 2025 12:50 PM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. From. By . Howie Movshovitz ...

"There's a relationship between attention span and morality," Ophuls said. The filmmaker commanded his audience's attention in four-plus-hour... Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict ...

Yarnhub. The Last Great Tank Battle of the 20th Century. Posted: December 11, 2024 | Last updated: January 3, 2025. February 1991, the Gulf War. Republican Guard units defend the flank of the ...

T he rest of us have long wondered why one of the greatest conservatives of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, trashed another great, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge, true to form, never offered an ...

The 20th century led not, as Mackinder worried, to a nightmarish “empire of the world” but to a brighter existence for much of humanity. The moral arc of the universe may be long, the saying ...

The 20th century brought global conflicts that redefined the country's role in the world and the 21st introduced new kinds of warfare in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.

Another recurring note, Frank finds, is the 20th century novel’s desire to, as H.G. Wells put it, “get the frame into the picture” and thus explore its own artificiality.

There, his father, Max Ophuls, continued as a filmmaker and Marcel became a leading chronicler of 20th century atrocities. Howie Movshovitz of member station KUNC has this appreciation.

Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict and atrocities, dies at 97. By Howie Movshovitz | Monday, May 26, 2025. Listen ...

Ophuls was born in Germany and his family fled to France to escape the Nazis. They eventually ended up in Hollywood, where his father, the famed director Max Ophuls, found work. His son started out ...