Aldo Moro

Robert Katz Historian wrote 'Death in Rome' Robert Katz, 77, a writer and historian whose meticulous reconstruction of an infamous Nazi massacre in Rome brought him fame and sparked a trial over whether he defamed the pope, died Wednesday in a...

Il Divo, the Godfather-ish drama about Italy's big Mafia trials of the 1990s -- court cases that implicated the very top of the Italian government, the Vatican and the Masons in mob activity -- won a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year....

Gianni Giansanti Honored photographer Gianni Giansanti, 52, an award-winning Italian photographer who snapped candid portraits of Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimages, died Wednesday in Rome after battling bone cancer, his colleagues said....

Big subjects will come in small packages Friday when the American Cinematheque screens the four Academy Award-nominated documentary shorts. The powerful, densely informative films, ranging from 27 to 40 minutes, tell stories from Africa, Asia and the U.S....

At the beginning of the 1970 movie "Patton," George C. Scott's title character stands in front of an American flag backdrop and speaks of war. "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country," Patton says with characteristic bluntness as he turns the...