Three-Part Miniseries, 'The State Within' Looks at Questions of Trust Among Allies
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By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor  Showtime, pay digital channel 350, celebrates Black History Month with "The Black Filmmaker's Showcase" at 4 p.m. Friday. The showcase features short films declared winners of the channel's annual competition.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
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The popularity of political films may signal a change in the way Americans choose to be informed.
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Two new engrossing documentaries show how down-home folks got politicized by the Iraq War
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Media & professional: Â· Trust demands emphasis on onscreen innovationÂ· 'Disenfranchised' audiences cause concern
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In the shadowy world of opposition research and not-for-attribution dossiers, things can get confusing.
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TEHRAN -- Two detained Iranian-Americans were shown on state television last night in a program contending that they tried to foment regime change in Iran with the support of the US government.
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MOSCOW -- They are an odd trio: a chess grandmaster, a flamboyantly controversial radical and a suave former insider. Together they have embarked on a political quest that seems not merely quixotic but hopelessly so: regime change in Russia.
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Three years on, experts and participants are looking back to try and glean the war's lessons.
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Compared to a decade or so ago, the belief in the messianic power of democracy and markets has reached a new low. Why another face-off between Washington and Moscow isnât as impossible as you might think.
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At the instigation of a human rights group, television shows are rethinking interrogation scenes. Even Jack Bauer is on board.
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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Showtime, the home of  the pot-headed but suburban-neat "Weeds," finds itself trapped  in a true-life reefer madness. It's airing a medical marijuana  documentary that argues both sides of the nasty issue, though  its title, "In Pot We Trust," reveals its unfair and imbalanced  point of view.
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In the Mideast hierarchy of hatred, the collaborator occupies a place of particular, perhaps ultimate, dishonor. In a region where ancient tribal ties have flourished amid satellite television and the World
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"Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-53," a series being shown at the New York Film Festival, begs the question: Why has the U.S. failed to bolster its image since Sept. 11?
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The timing could hardly be better. "News War" is a "Frontline" probe into the modern Fourth Estate, embattled from many directions. And, by chance, it coincides with the imminent conclusion to a Washington free-for-all that has ensnared the news media: the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.