Hitchcock emphasizes this visual concept of film-making whenever he discusses his own films, and in seeing his fiftieth, Torn Curtain, it would be wise to take the hint. For at least the first ...

Alfred Hitchcock remains one of the most famous ... as Michael unexpectedly defects to East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain, and Sarah follows him. The couple become embroiled in a journey ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...