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The complexities of history have always posed problems for commercial cinema. With rare exceptions, mainstream historical films tend to flatten the inconveniently irregular textures of individual biographies and their context into simpler templates of good and evil, valour and villainy.

HE is regarded as the father of the modern spy novel but John Buchan’s less well-known political views on Scottish nationalism and fascism deserve…

Because it sure looks that way

The author and activist argues for a shift in the way we view size. Plus: the life and legacy of Emily Brontë. Here’s what to watch this evening

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most notorious concentration camps

"Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too," wrote NYU's Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Composer and conductor Leo Geyer sheds light on the horrors of the Holocaust through recovered manuscripts

As the Red Army closed in on the concentration camp, the Nazis tried to destroy every bit of evidence – but they didn’t manage to burn all the music written there. Ahead of a new film, we meet the man who’s spent eight years piecing those extraordinary scraps of music…