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In 1970, an all-White Mississippi commission voted to ban "Sesame Street," which featured a racially diverse cast. The backlash was swift, and the ban was lifted. → Read More
Censorship campaigns recall the much more violent attacks on freedom libraries for Black readers in the Deep South, which sometimes faced bombings and murders. → Read More
Gina Prince-Bythewood's 'The Woman King' takes its cues from the very real Agojie warriors of West Africa. → Read More
Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest in an oak coffin designed for her more than 30 years ago, and it’s bound to weigh a ton, because it’s lined with lead. → Read More
Ever wonder why we’ve never seen Ginger? Or why Bob talks to his food? Just ask the show's most dedicated viewers, who have concocted these 10 fascinating fan theories. → Read More
'Better Call Saul' is preparing to go off to that great big Cinnabon in the sky, and fans of the series have a lot of questions—and some truly bizarre theories. → Read More
In 1916, the Williamson brothers used their father's underwater photography device to film a fight with a shark, piquing Universal Pictures' interest. → Read More
Johnny Cash grappled with the many facets of the outlaw archetype in his feature acting debut, Five Minutes to Live. → Read More
Ernest Hemingway didn’t care for it. → Read More
Night of the Living Dead’s production story reads like a means to an end: a rag-tag group of creatives makes a movie on nothing to get noticed. → Read More
Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. → Read More
You might know him from Phantom of the Opera or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. → Read More
The complicated notion of glamour in classic Hollywood, suggesting that stars were aloof and unknowable, was also a means to sell products. → Read More
Mental hygiene films of the postwar era gave advice to American teens—and parroted specific cultural values. → Read More
“Little Sure Shot” was famous for her precision, athleticism, and trademark femininity. → Read More
Benjamin Christensen's Häxan was part documentary and part fantasy—and considered too disturbing for public viewing. → Read More
In “trick films,” women were shown literally exploding over kitchen accidents—the early 1900s way of mining humor out of human tragedies. → Read More
The public fascination was so intense that fans soon started demanding live reenactments. → Read More
Originally produced as an exploitation film that drew on racial stereotypes, the ironic revival of Reefer Madness made it a cult classic for stoners. → Read More
Like many actresses of her day, Laurette Luez was expected to be a beautiful siren in skimpy clothing who could be from almost anywhere—just not here. → Read More