War movies
Movie crews return to Tybee Island after pandemic pause

May. 09, 2021 09:40 AM EDT
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Movie crews are returning to Georgia’s largest public beach for the first time since the coronavirus forced a long pause between...

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnian director: Movie's human-rights focus resonates now

By Sabina Niksic Feb. 01, 2021 05:45 PM EST

FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 07, 2020 12:13 PM EST

FILE - In this May 2, 2018, file photo, director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, "Based on a True Story," in Krakow, Poland. Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust. (AP Photo/File)
Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

By Monika Scislowska Oct. 15, 2020 02:41 PM EDT

FILE - This Nov. 17, 2019 photo shows Tom Hanks posing for a portrait in New York. Hank's latest film "Greyhound," premieres this week on Apple TV Plus. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)
Tom Hanks on COVID-19, 'Greyhound' and wartime mentality

By Jake Coyle Jul. 06, 2020 05:25 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2020, file photo, people, including those with the boogaloo movement, pray as they demonstrate against business closures due to concern about COVID-19, at the State House in Concord, N.H. It's a fringe movement with roots in a online meme culture steeped in irony and dark humor. But experts warn that the anti-government boogaloo movement has attracted a dangerous element of far-right extremists. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Virus restrictions fuel anti-government 'boogaloo' movement

By Michael Kunzelman May. 13, 2020 02:23 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi holds up his hand in the sign language of "I love you" to stress that is an important message in his films, during an interview at his studio in Tokyo. Obayashi, one of Japan's most prolific filmmakers who devoted his works to depicting war’s horrors and singing the eternal power of movies, has died. He was 82. The official site for his latest film, “Labyrinth of Cinema,” said on its online site Saturday, April 10, that Obayashi died late Friday, April 9.(AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama, File)
Filmmaker Obayashi, who portrayed war's horrors, dead at 82

By Yuri Kageyama Apr. 10, 2020 09:07 PM EDT