History as Farce: Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin

Tunnel Vision: Rachel Chrastil’s Bismarck’s War

Empty Spectacle: Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II

Envoys of the Chancellor: Star Wars, the Jedi, and Peacekeeping in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away

Best of Frienemies: Adrian Goldsworthy’s Rome and Persia

A Human Connection? James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg

Founding Novices: Wishful Thinking and Misguided Assumptions in the Early American Republic

Dark Déjà Vu: Harald Jähner’s Vertigo

Private Fictions: Steven Knight’s House of Guinness