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Justice in Film Friday, February 12, 7 pm Don Pollard Don Pollard Don Doran Marissa Harold Shapiro Glory | 1989 | 122 min. Historians Edna Greene Medford and David W. Blight, in conversation with Harold Holzer, present this Civil War epic that follows the first all-black regiment as they fight for racial equality among their fellow Union Army officers as well as against the Confederates. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Matthew Broderick, , Morgan Freeman. Lorella ZanettiLorella Racine Denis Pollard Don Friday, February 26, 7 pm MarcusJoan

The Lives of Others | 2006 | 137 min. Pictured: Edna Greene Medford, David W. Blight, Harold Holzer, Linda Greenhouse, Robert Post, Kenji Yoshino, Ric Burns, Kati Marton, Ron Simon, David Denby, Catherine Wyler, Susan Lacy, Laurence Kardish, Max Lewkowicz, Dale Gregory Linda Greenhouse, Lecturer at Yale and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Robert Post, Dean of Yale Law School, and Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law, introduce Friday, March 18, 7 pm Friday, April 29, 7 pm the set in 1980s East Germany in which an officer of | 1962 | 126 min. Forbidden Games | 1952 | 86 min. the Stasi is asked to survey a famous theatrical couple suspected of anti-government writings. (German with English subtitles.) Directed Ron Simon, Senior Curator at the , presents Laurence Kardish, former Senior Film Curator at MoMA, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Ulrich Mühe, the thriller in which a Korean War veteran has recurring nightmares introduces the foreign masterpiece that follows a young French girl, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch. that suggest his former platoon member may be involved in a orphaned by Nazi airstrikes, and her friend as they cope with the communist conspiracy. Directed by . desolation of war. (French with English subtitles.) Directed by René Friday, March 4, 7 pm Starring , , . Clément. Starring Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly. Vertigo | 1958 | 128 min. Friday, April 1, 7 pm Friday, May 13, 7 pm Filmmaker Ric Burns introduces ’s thriller starring | 1964 | 118 min. Europa Europa | 1990 | 112 min. as a former detective hoodwinked into insanity, love, and obsession. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James After the president signs a treaty with the Soviet Film director, producer, and writer Max Lewkowicz introduces the Stewart, . Union, he discovers a military coup led by his Air Force General sweeping epic based on the true story of a Jewish boy posing as a to overthrow the U.S. government. Film critic David Denby and German orphan in WWII Europe. (German with English subtitles.) Friday, March 11, 7 pm author Kati Marton introduce this political thriller. Directed by John Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Starring Solomon Perel, Marco You’ve Got Mail | 1998 | 119 min. Frankenheimer. Starring , , . Hofschneider.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan navigate New York and romance in the Friday, April 15, 7 pm Friday, May 20, 7 pm age of e-mail. Author Kati Marton introduces this modern retelling The Big Country | 1958 | 166 min. The 39 Steps | 1935 | 87 min. of The Shop Around the Corner. Directed by Nora Ephron. Starring , Meg Ryan. When an Easterner moves west to be with his fiancée, he finds Ron Simon, Senior Curator at the Paley Center for Media, and himself embroiled in a ranching feud over water rights. Catherine Dale Gregory, New-York Historical’s Vice President for Public Wyler, in conversation with producer Susan Lacy, introduces her Programs, present one of Hitchcock’s first major films about an father’s Western epic. Directed by William Wyler. Starring Gregory unsuspecting man caught up in an attempt to take down a Visit nyhistory.org/programs for information Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker. dangerous spy ring. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring on related Saturday breakfast programs. , .

For more details and the latest information on our featured films and speakers, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. Film Series Programmer: Dale Marsha Gregory, Presented at the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 Vice President for Public Programs