In 1996, "Independence Day" hit cinemas. It showed never-before-seen images, packaged as light popcorn entertainment.

Released in 1997, Air Force One is the purest expression of that fantasy in film. Harrison Ford stars as President James ...

Gitte Haenning shaped the German-language music scene for decades - first with pop hits, later with jazz and self-confident songs such as "Ich bin stark". Shortly before her 80th birthday, the Danish ...

Playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) chased the same idea for 30 years. A mild-mannered, rule-bound protagonist meets a ...

The '80s were a notoriously uneven decade for cinema, but a few movies, like Die Hard and Amadeus, are still the cinematic ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.