A prizewinner at Venice and Palm Springs, Bogdan Mureșanu's robust ensemble piece captures national unrest in the dying days of the Ceaușescu regime. "The New Year That Never Came" (Courtesy of ...

Against a unifyingly momentous milieu — namely, the wintry week of revolution that preceded the accelerated downfall, trial and execution of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu on Christmas Day ...

Construction, which began in 1984 and is still unfinished, was ordered by Nicolas Ceaușescu, the second and last communist leader of Romania. He was overthrown and executed in the 1989 Revolution ...

The Romanian dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu was once known as 'The Genius ... wasn't quite so clever after all and, in 1989, executed him on live television. Reinhard Heydrich earned the nickname ...

Stopping probably meant being executed. Before the war ... didn’t live long enough to see the rise of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist dictatorship after the end of Romania’s monarchy.

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and ...

In a moment of exaltation when US troops conquered Baghdad on April 10 last year, the US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that “Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside ...