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360 Staff Pick: Underground

Arts, Culture & Media

Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s black comedy Underground follows a group of Yugoslavians who flee to their cellar at the outbreak of WWII. The surreal storyline mixes black humor, unique characters, a raucous soundtrack and stunning imagery. Coming on the heels of the modern Balkan War, the film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1995. […]

Keep Calm and Cary Grant

Arts, Culture & Media
German tanks in Poland, just days after Clare Hollingworth spotted them massing across the border

Remembering Clare Hollingworth, the journalist who broke the news of World War II

Media
President Barack Obama and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) attend a ceremony at the Atomic Bomb Dome at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, May 27th 2016.

US veterans react to Obama’s visits to Vietnam and Hiroshima

Conflict
The contents of an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat)

How combat rations got into your kid’s lunchbox

Books
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This D-Day photography project revisits Normandy showing sites then and now

Arts, Culture & Media

A team of photographers and archivists at Getty Images has created composite then and now photo project of D-day. The photos compare modern locations in France and Britain today with iconic images taken before, during or after the D-Day landings in 1944.

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