There are a few verifiable truths about Civil War photographer Timothy O’Sullivan. He was born in 1840 in Ireland. He apprenticed in the studio of famed photographer Matthew Brady, and he took what he ...

Louie Palu is a Washington-based photojournalist who has covered multiple conflicts, including Afghanistan and Ukraine. In 2007, while working as a war photographer in Afghanistan, I faced what you ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading ...

The actress says her "biggest fear" was "looking like I didn’t know what I was doing with the camera" Kirsten Dunst took playing a war photographer extremely seriously. “I just carried that camera ...

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly 30 years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. His black-and-white ...

Much like America, writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is a precarious sort of success almost in spite of itself, and despite being its own worst storytelling enemy. How? How can those ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Civil War—director Alex Garland’s haunting look at a future deadly conflict in a dystopian ...

A version of this review ran in March 2024 in conjunction with the movie’s original coverage embargo. It has been updated and republished for the theatrical release. And yet Garland says that ...