At approximately 2:00 a.m. on August 5, 1944, a lone Japanese prisoner of war at the Cowra internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, climbed a perimeter fence in a state of visible distress. An Australian guard later recalled that the man was "weeping and appeared to be in great fear." Two warning shots were […]

For nearly two millennia, the narrative of Pompeii has been one defined by a singular, frozen moment of catastrophe. The image of plaster casts—capturing the final, agonizing seconds of victims suffocated by ash and heat—has dominated the public consciousness. However, a groundbreaking new documentary series, Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston, seeks to shift […]