A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards of glass splatter film-maker Gualtiero Jacopetti’s face, slicing a vein behind his ear. As ...

Emmy-winning comic actor Catherine O’Hara is among the noteworthy and influential people who died in the first month of this ...

September 1943. Italy had just signed an armistice with the Allies, but the German military wasn’t going to let them go without a fight. As German forces launched Operation Achse to disarm the ...