A Brief History On Friday, January 8, 2021, American thriller film Fatale will be available at home on demand. For a random chance to receive one of a limited number of PVOD codes to watch this film, please email admin@historyandheadlines.com by Thursday, January 7, 2021 at noon Eastern Time. Please be sure to indicate in the email that you are entering for a chance to screen this film. Please only send one email per email address. Those selected to receive an exclusive code will receive an email with the code and instructions for how to redeem it. Also, if you…
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A Brief History On New Year’s Eve of 2020, we look back on some of the best videos published by various education themed YouTube channels from 2020. Digging Deeper Please watch the playlist below for a sample of the best education themed YouTube videos of 2020. Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: What is your favorite video from the playlist above? For an archive of past best of educational YouTube playlists, please see the table below: If you liked this article and would like to receive notification of new articles, please feel welcome to subscribe to History and Headlines…
A Brief History On December 28, 1999, Western actor/action hero Clayton Moore died. If you are not familiar with this star of the small and large screen, he played The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1957 on television and starred in 2 related big screen movies about the same character. Even if you never saw the Clayton Moore versions of the Lone Ranger, you are probably familiar with “The William Tell Overture” by Rossini, the theme music played for Moore’s Lone Ranger character. In the Covid-19 plagued year of 2020, we have lost another host of notable people, both to…
A Brief History On December 25, 2020, people around the world celebrate the Christian holiday of Christmas, honoring the birth of Jesus Christ. During this Christmas season, we are likely to hear many Christmas carols and holiday songs, but none of them are arguably as touching and universal as “O Holy Night,” also known as “Cantique de Noël” in the original French. We take this opportunity to reflect on the song that, in our opinion, is the greatest Christmas carol. Digging Deeper While the famous carol is of course, Christian, the backgrounds of the men involved in creating the song…
A Brief History On November 5, 2020, we screened an advance showing of the new motion picture starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, Let Him Go, a film set to open the next day. (Release was delayed from August 2020 to November 6, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic.) Set in the late 1950’s in the remote areas of Montana and North Dakota, the movie takes us to dark places of life altering events and decisions. Neither eye candy nor uplifting, the film is drama with a hint of horror. If you have read our previous movie reviews, you will…