Movies: Fictionalized history

Following the victory at Sinhagad in 1670, the Moghuls began to notice the threat from the Marathas. The unique guerrilla tactics developed by Shivaji helped his warriors forge ahead with power....

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An e...

It depicts the final moments of the extermination of the Venezuelan Timotes indigenous tribes living in the mountains of Mérida in the 17th century....

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described scientifically in 1979 as Stendhal syndrome. Mark...

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How does the most famous man in the world go missing overnight and is never heard from again for three years? That's what our host Leo is trying to find out, delving into the depths of the Brett Pick timeline, documenting his process of interviewing,...