This documentary could be better, but it offers a helpful lesson for film fans new to the movies of that decade. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The late release date of Morgan Neville’s Netflix documentary “Breakdown: 1975” struck me as odd. The 50th anniversary of that year will end in 2 weeks. This feature purports to be an essay on 1975 ...

We recommend pressing the “Listen” button to get the full effect of The Culture Show’s SOUND FILES. You may not know that the United States has a National Recording Registry — a list of more than 600 ...

The year 1939 is often cited as the high-point of American filmmaking, the evidence including “Gone With the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Stagecoach,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “Ninotchka.” In ...

Directed and produced by Morgan Neville, the Netflix documentary Breakdown: 1975 focuses on that year, in the 199th one for America, in the thick of political chicanery and cultural trauma, and in the ...

Boston has many cultural districts and ethnic neighborhoods, from Chinatown going back to the 1870s, to the more recently designated Little Saigon in Dorchester. But did you know that from the 1890s ...

OMANA — It’s Omaha’s touchstone moment. Like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, Omahans of certain age remember where they were when an EF-4 tornado struck the heart of the city in 1975.