Two nineties films that are well-known for showing powerful depictions of the horrors perpetrated against the Jews in the Holocaust are Life is Beautiful and Schindler’s List. The two films take different approaches. Life is Beautiful focuses on the experience of a Jewish man who protects his son in a...

A soundtrack – be it music or other effects creating the ambient atmosphere to the visual component – has become an integral part of each film since the introduction of the talkies. The case is the same with one of the most important motion pictures of the 20th century “Titanic”....

The 1990 movie, “Dances with Wolves,” explores the relationship between a soldier of the Civil War and Sioux Indians during the 1860s as white settlers began to settle in the American West. Kevin Costner served as director and played the main character, Union Army Officer Lieutenant John W. Dunbar. Much...

In A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001) Russell Crowe plays John Nash, a highly intelligent mathematician who struggles to make friends and to bond with others because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Throughout the film, it becomes clear that his auditory and visual hallucinations coupled with his delusions of persecution become...

In the late 1990s, the movie industry released a dozen of psychological dramas discussing questions of human existence and poor life choices. “American History X” is one of the most notable works from this period. This film about people trapped in the neo-Nazi movement has become the cult classic thanks...