In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

Netflix’s new movie, Mank, chronicles the development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane, often considered American cinema’s greatest film. While David Fincher’s black-and-white feature details the ...

So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

Long before Donald Trump used the term "fake news" to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War ...

In 1962, Orson Welles gave an interview to the CBC in Paris. One question brought him up short. Interviewer: Does the word "home" mean anything to you? Welles: Oh yes... Interviewer: And when you ...

Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after ...

In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn’t like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War ...