Palladium Pictures

One of the few really interesting educational sites on Connecticut’s shoreline is the Submarine Force Library and Museum, located in Groton, near General Dynamics’ Electric Boat yards. Permanently moored on the Thames River, hard by Naval Submarine Base New London, is the world’s first nuclear sub, the fabled USS Nautilus, which is…

T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Kipling, said that the outsider, if he happens to be “alarmingly intelligent,” has a “peculiar detachment and remoteness” that enables him to see the places through which he passes more clearly than the natives do. The subject of Richard Brookhiser and Michael Pack’s documentary…

I am the producer/director of a new PBS documentary on Alexander Hamilton. A sequel to our acclaimed film on George Washington, this film is the story of the “bastard brat of a Scotch peddler,” in John Adams words, who went on to shape America’s financial and legal system before being…

His premise is that the great men of America’s founding generation are figures of the present as well as the past. Their essence is found in the principles they prized and the institutions they created—which we, as their inheritors, are bound by duty to understand, whether we like it or…

JUST how much did 9/11 change American politics? Let me put it this way: When was the last time the phrase “faith-based institutions” crossed your consciousness? If you’re at all politically aware, you couldn’t get away from the debate over whether the federal government could redirect social-welfare dollars into programs…

Filmmaker Michael Pack says it was pure luck that in his project to chronicle six ordinary months in the life of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he turned up six extraordinary ones. When Pack’s cameras started following the Georgia Republican in September 1998 during a dinosaur bone search in Montana, the…