The oral history, life history, and personal narrative are techniques that have been in the toolkit of historians since the time of the ancient Greeks. The author provides readers with handy tips on everything from developing a written interview guide and using tape recorders to asking probing questions during the in-depth interview and editing transcriptions.
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how turned Hitler from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes …
I reluctantly watched this film, feeling obligated to do a review. Like so many movie fans, I am strangely resistant to foreign language movies (this one is almost all in Japanese), even though I usually enjoy them far more than I expect. Letters From Iwo Jima is a spectacular film about one of WWIIs bloodiest Pacific battles in which over 20,000 Japanese soldiers died and less than 1,000 were …
The film begins with a depiction of the events of the Munich Massacre in 1972. After the killings, the Israeli government devises "an eye for an eye" retaliation. A target list of eleven names are drawn up in retaliation for the eleven Israeli men murdered. Avner, an Israeli-born Mossad agent of German descent, is chosen to lead the assassination squad because he is not well-known in the fie…
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama (directed by Phillip Noyce) film based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It concerns the author's mother, and two other young mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, in order to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931. The fi…
Timor Timur merdeka dari Indonesia setelah mereka menentukan nasib sendiri dengan referendum 30 Agustus 1999. Kemerdekaan yang berdarah-darah. Puncaknya meledak seusai pengumuman jajak pendapat pada 4 September tahun itu. Bagitu rakyat Timor Timur menyatakan keinginannya melepaskan diri dari belenggu Indonesia selama 24 tahun, kerusuhan massa pecah di mana-mana. Kelompok paramiliter muncul di m…
Naiknya Habibie menjadi Wakil Presiden pada Maret 1998, tidak bisa lepas dari andil Prabowo. Pada 1998, dia bersama Kivlan Zen telah terlibat dalam gerakan menolak Jenderal L.B. Moerdani untuk maju sebagai Wakil Presiden, dan mendukung kelompok Habibie. Tapi, tidak lama setelah menggantikan kursi Soeharto, Habibie merasa cemas akan adanya kudeta yang dilakukan oleh Prabowo. Mengapa Habibie mera…