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Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ...
Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits

This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked publication. If you have articles you think should be listed on the Pop Culture page, please send them to the editor editor@historynewsnetwork.org.

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    • Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls (Exhibit/Seattle Pacific Science Center)

    SOURCE: KIRO TV News (9-20-06)

    The Dead Sea scrolls have awed audiences everywhere they have been exhibited. Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls is an original exhibition exploring both the context of the scrolls and the science and scholarship associated with their discovery and interpretation.
    Regarded by many as one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th century, these scrolls predate Christianity. Until their discovery, the oldest Hebrew biblical manuscript known to scholars was written in 895 C.E.* The biblical Dead Sea scrolls are more than 1,000 years older, having been transcribed or copied between 250 B.C.E. and 68 C.E., written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
    This 12,000-square-foot exhibition was developed by Pacific Science Center in cooperation with Discovery Place in Charlotte, N.C. and is presented in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation. With artifacts, displays and interactive exhibits, Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls takes...
    Monday, October 16, 2006 - 13:42
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    The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Documentary)

    SOURCE: Youtube (9-20-06)

    This movie documents the FBI's investigation of Beatle John Lennon in the early 1970s. It features interviews with historian Jon Wiener.
    Monday, October 16, 2006 - 13:41
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    Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (PBS)

    SOURCE: NYT (9-19-06)

    One black-and-white photograph turns up several times in Thomas Allen Harris’s “Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela,” to be shown tonight on PBS’s “P.O.V.” series. It shows a dozen young black men, half of them seated, the other half standing behind them as if for a class picture, most with beaming smiles. As Mr. Harris points out in this important documentary, some called them the Twelve From Bloemfontein, for the South African city where they lived. The photo was taken almost half a century ago, not long before the men piled into two cars and left their homeland, telling their families they were going to an out-of-town soccer game.

    They were, in fact, on a global mission: to tell the world about the horrors of South African apartheid, spreading the message of the African National Congress, advocating sanctions and boycotts. It was 1960, just two years before the A.N.C.’s charismatic activist Nelson Mandela was arrested. He remained in prison until 1990.
    Monday, October 16, 2006 - 13:40
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    Mr. Conservative (HBO)

    SOURCE: NYT (9-18-06)

    First came Rory Kennedy, then Ivy Meeropol, and now CC Goldwater. Yet another young woman from a famous family has turned documentarian. Maybe there’s something in the granddaughter’s vantage that translates smoothly into the form: modern documentaries are typically observant, archival, conscientious, interrogative and ideologically tentative. A girl who grew up listening to blowhard arguments, staying out of fights and keeping watchful track of people’s feelings may find in documentary both a mode of expression and a form of revenge.
    Monday, October 16, 2006 - 13:39
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