Norman Rockwell’s Storytelling Lessons

George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg found inspiration for their films in the work of one of America’s most cherished illustrators
July 07, 2010 | By Owen Edwards

What Movies Predict for the Next 40 Years

From Back to the Future to the Terminator franchise, Hollywood has many strange and scary ideas of what will happen by 2050
June 30, 2010 | By Brian Wolly

The Rock Concert That Captured an Era

Featuring acts such as the Beach Boys, James Brown and the Rolling Stones, The T.A.M.I. Show defined popular music for a generation
March 19, 2010 | By Daniel Eagan

A Forgotten Tennessee Williams Work Now a Motion Picture

Written in the 1950s, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond was forgotten until it was recently adapted into a major motion picture
January 04, 2010 | By Chloë Schama

Homemade Clothes for Hollywood - Made Movies

Rabbit Goody has been the go-to weaver for historically accurate fabric for the movie industry’s biggest period dramas
December 07, 2009 | By Rachel Dickinson

Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity

For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
November 2009 | By Amanda Bensen

Are Scientists or Moviemakers the Bigger Dodos?

Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
October 30, 2009 | By Abby Callard

Frank Baum, the Man Behind the Curtain

The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road
June 26, 2009 | By Chloë Schama

Bringing the Wright Flyer to Life

In a movie first, curators and filmmakers collaborated to animate artifacts for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
June 2009 | By Jesse Rhodes

Days 7 to 12: A Cannes Farewell

As Michael Parfit bids goodbye to the Cannes Film Festival, there is good news for Luna from the Canary Islands
May 25, 2009 | By Michael Parfit

Days 5 and 6: Dark Days at Cannes

The buzz surrounding a new film leaves Cannes-goers anxious, but Michael Parfit finds reasons for hope
May 19, 2009 | By Michael Parfit

Five Movies That Memorably Feature Museums

The ‘Night at the Museum’ films aren’t the only films that take place largely in the confines of a museum
May 04, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Hollywood on Exhibit

Movie memories come to life inside the filmmaking collections of these seven museums
April 24, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Five Films that Redefined Hollywood

Author Mark Harris discusses his book about the five movies nominated for Best Picture at the 1967 Academy Awards
February 19, 2009 | By Brian Wolly

Frost, Nixon and Me

Author James Reston Jr. discovers firsthand what is gained and lost when history is turned into entertainment
January 2009 | By James Reston Jr.

For Those Ruby Red Slippers, There's No Place Like Home

The newly reopened Smithsonian National Museum of American History boasts a rare pair of Judy Garland's legendary ruby slippers
January 2009 | By Jesse Rhodes

Roving Eye

Documentary filmmaker Rachel Grady opens our eyes to the complexities of overlooked places and people
October 2007 | By Kenneth Turan

Water Works

Taking up the family business, Philippe Cousteau campaigns to save our oceans and rivers
October 2007 | By G. Bruce Knecht

Gathering Rosebuds

Did a Native American actress inspire one of Hollywood's most celebrated symbols?
January 2007 | By Owen Edwards

Interview with Thomas Allen Harris

Director of "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela"
September 01, 2006 | By Lucinda Moore

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