Hollywood vs. History

Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of Jerusalem in his epic 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven. How much did he get right? Using clips from the film, medieval historian Joh...

The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. The 1990 film Memphis Belle gives a fictional account of the iconic plane’s 25th and final combat mission. The characters a...

You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo. The 1970 film, starring Rod Steiger as mercurial French leader Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as Britain’s Duke of Wellington, was shot in Ukraine and...

The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at youtube.com/kclibrary. The swashbuckling 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King was both a critical and commercial s...