Founded in 1999, Swedish power-metal veterans Sabaton cast a microscopic gaze on the horrors of war with a sweeping, majestic, and anthemic sound that walks the line between empathizing with humans on the battlefield and glorifying the unglorifiable. Their records deliver poetic lessons in military history (usually European), and though they aim to stay as […]
Tag: World War I
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Mothering Sunday
There’s a Malickian quality to the film that’s cheesy at moments, and the disjointed chronology is more aggravating than affecting.
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Grant Park, the lakefront, and Chicago’s WWI connections
In September 1918, the park hosted an exposition to drum up civilian support for the war effort.
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Sabaton celebrate 20 years with a tonally inconsistent but informative power-metal take on WWI
Sabaton are celebrating their 20th year of existence in style. The Swedish power-metal band kicked off 2019 with the launch of their own YouTube channel, which focuses on the history that fuels their songwriting, and in July they released their ninth album, the World War I-inspired The Great War. Sabaton are no stranger to exploring […]
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They thought he was an ‘agitator’
Franklin A. Denison was no rabble-rouser, but the Bureau of Investigation said he sparked the 1919 race riot.
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A tale of two soldiers
Letters home from two WWI soldiers, one white, one Black, explain the 1919 Chicago race riot as well as any history book.
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For Services Rendered explores the ongoing trauma of World War I
It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
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The one-man show Private Peaceful recreates the hell of World War I
From the same writer who brought you War Horse
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James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week
James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck’s “Star of the Week” selections.
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On winning wars and losing memories
Lee Sandlin’s magnum opus on Americans’ amnesia about World War II makes a Russian reflect on how differently we experienced the war.
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Who’s Alice Childress? We should all know
The civil rights-era playwright’s Wedding Band is an indispensable look at what we’ve been missing.
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In Young Radicals Jeremy McCarter ponders the similarities between 1917 and 2017
The past is not dead. It’s not even past.
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Chicago Folks Operetta mounts the Chicago premiere of a landmark work by Kurt Weill
Johnny Johnson follows a pacifist into the trenches of WWI and beyond.
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Teen shot by police called 911 for help multiple times, peak flu season approaches, and other Chicago news
Also, a group of witches hope to end Logan Square gentrification, and a local architect is tapped to design Washington D.C.’s World War I memorial.