10 of the bestFilm adaptationsBen Wheatley’s new version of the gothic thriller Rebecca joins an impressive list of big-screen Du Maurier adaptations
10. The Years Between (1946)Valerie Hobson plays the wife of a British MP (Michael Redgrave), who learns her husband has been killed in the second world war. Just as she is getting to grips with her loss, preparing to marry a neighbouring farmer and taking up her late husband’s seat in parliament (where Churchill is impressed by her maiden speech), he turns up alive. Read More...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev This article is more than 10 years oldTamerlan Tsarnaev buried in Virginia cemetery, says suspect's uncleThis article is more than 10 years old'Compassionate' Virginia woman provided necessary assistance to bury Boston Marathon bombing suspectBoston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in Virginia, infuriating some members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn't even know she lived near a burial ground. Read More...
Television industryBBC documentary prompts war crimes investigationAn acclaimed BBC documentary on Auschwitz has prompted what is likely to be one of the last ever war crimes investigations after an 83-year-old German admitted on camera killing Soviet Jews while part of an SS firing squad.
The admission is part of the BBC2 series, Auschwitz, the Nazis and the Final Solution, that started running earlier this year.
It was based on nearly 100 interviews with survivors and perpetrators, many of whom were speaking in detail about their wartime experiences for the first time. Read More...