As some of you know I am also a documentary filmmaker. A few years ago Patch had send me some raw footage of some of his work in Kabul. I pulled together a little montage- and I have to admit I still get choked up every time I see it. I think it helps Americans understand how in the dark we are about well… everything.
Her name is synonymous with the French monarchy and all its excesses, but there is more to the story of Marie Antoinette than the simple tale of how a frivolous sovereign helped provoke the uprising that became the French Revolution. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker David Grubin paints a surprising portrait of a courageous figure and traces her journey from the splendors of a childhood in the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire to a French guillotine.
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