Who We Are

The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature

"...author best known for his ground-breaking retelling of American history from the bottom up, A People's History of the..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Riding Giants

A creative wipe-out from the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys

"...Whether or not one was initially interested in the history of Dogtown’s surf punks, that movie grabbed attention largely..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...Crockett in Texas at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, the register spits out a little paper receipt...."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

"...savaging the savior of France in my high school history courses, but then again medieval French history was never..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Braveheart

Gibson directs and stars in this rousing 13th century epic about the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace.

"...the charge for Scottish independence. There is a real history of Wallace, though not much is actually known and..."

May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Waterland

"...Grant Warnock, Lena Headley, Ethan Hawke and John Heard. History experienced as the personal instead of an assortment of..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

History of the psychedelic collective that vibed through pre-millennial indie rock

"...When C.B. Stockfleth first released his documentary history of indie music collective the Elephant 6 Recording Co.,..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pencils Vs Pixels

Touching documentary draws on the incredible history of animation

"...with due reverence here by Leonard Maltin). That unauthorized history of the Disney renaissance was such a remarkable work..."

July 14, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The King's Speech

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter act up a royal storm in this movie about King George VI of Great Britain overcoming his speech impediment.

"...a duke can be) man forced into greatness by history. This may be musty and faded history to us..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle-Ready

This fall, history nerds will have cause to rejoice when the History Channel presents First Invasion: The War of 1812, a collaboration with local post-production facility Match Frame.

"...Consider the History Channel. Has there ever been, in the entire panoply..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Chick Flick

Who amongst ye could have conjured Mainer Janet Bonney's true chicken story? Mark Lewis' documentary The Natural History of Chickens, playing on Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, features real-life stories of fowl play so strange they must be true.

"...And now for something completely different: The Natural History of the Chicken. Nope, not something from National Geographic,..."

April 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Street Wise

Steeped in History

"...not so great as to justify overwriting Austin's cultural history...."

Sept. 11, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

To Live

"...Ben, Guo Tao, Jiang Wu and Liu Tianchi. The history of China over the last 50 years has been..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gettysburg

"...an epic recreation of the bloodiest battle in American history: thousands of Civil War reenactors trudge purposefully across the..."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Utley

Preserving the Future of the Texas Memorial Museum

After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role

"...is an Art Deco building containing the state’s natural history. There are fossils discovered in Onion, Shoal, and Bouldin..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Claire Stevens

The Good Liar

Mirren and McKellen cross paths in this retiree con flick

"...them taking in a screening of Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist history lesson Inglourious Basterds of all things, one of many..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...dream factory UFA GmbH. In this enthralling and scathing history of the Third Reich's movies, Rüdiger Suchsland argues that..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Death of Stalin

Russia's political upheaval rewritten as dark farce.

"...Malenkov? No problem. A sure grasp of midcentury Soviet history isn’t required to appreciate this latest political satire from..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: "Your Job Is to Get the Paper Out"

On the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, overwhelmed with wonder and the terrible history

"...unprepared. Overwhelmed with wonder – at the land, its history, its presence, my past, my ancestors, my blood, all..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Suffragette

Carey Mulligan gets her Norma Rae on in this historical drama

"...little more novelty than a chapter in a standard-issue history book, Suffragette soldiers through its story about the fight..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tall Tales and Texas Rising

Fact battles fiction in new History Channel miniseries

"...came calling. Soon his life was entangled with the History Channel's 10-hour miniseries Texas Rising, a sometimes historical, sometimes..."

May 22, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Page Two: In the Moment, Part 2

A fascinating lesson in history

"...I'm likely to make it sound like a difficult history text or an overly opinionated polemic. In other words,..."

July 29, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Devil's in the LGBTtails

Part 2 of our interview with the Austin History Center on gaying up the archives

"...What happens when something is donated to the Austin History Center?..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

Homeless Bills Get Shelter

TWIA, CHIP and more find vehicles in the Senate, head back to the House

"...On the big items, CHIP expansion has apparently survived..."

May 28, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dirt Road to Psychedelia

This documentary traces the changeover of Austin's youth culture from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers – with side trips into all the music along the way.

"...Scott Conn. Conn's vital documentary contribution to Austin cultural history weaves oral history from informed sources with a wealth..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Queen

This Helen Mirren starrer provides a glimpse of the British monarchy at a contemporary crossroads between supreme dominance and utter irrelevancy.

"...and traditions, the symbolic representation of the country’s long history and assured progression into the future. Frears’ movie is..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

National Treasure

Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.

"...by sage patriarch Christopher Plummer, of the Gates family history, to which young Benjamin Franklin Gates belongs. The Gates’..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other 'Alamo'

Brace yourselves, devotees of Alamo and Texas Revolution lore: The prevailing mythology is about to take a few more hits, this round courtesy of Joseph Tovares and his new documentary, 'Remember the Alamo'

"...who last gave us Zoot Suit Riots (2001): "Texas history is very messy; everyone is always taking from somebody..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Ways of Remembering: A Racial Geography Tour of UT-Austin’s Campus

Dr. Edmund T. Gordon's virtual tour illuminates the university's complicated history

"..."Any kind of history is about silence," says Dr. Edmund T. Gordon. "So..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Mary Queen of Scots

Period drama has no sense of history

"...drama when you learn none of the lessons of history? In 1561, the recently widowed 18-year-old Mary Stuart returned..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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