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Jun 19, 2020 · June 19, 2020. 5 min read. In 2015, the New York Times Magazine controversially polled its readers on whether they could kill a baby Adolf Hitler, spinning the question into popular fodder for historical thinkpieces and social media chatter. Ironically, it was back in 1933 when a young, inquisitive, prophetic Welsh journalist named Gareth Jones ...
Jun 18, 2020 · Based on a real Welsh journalist, he is the unassuming hero of this grim, quietly furious movie, which revisits Jones’s 1933 trip to Ukraine, then in the grip of a catastrophic famine. There ...
- Agnieszka Holland
Welsh journalist Gareth Jones risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Rent Mr. Jones on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or ...
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- James Norton
- Agnieszka Holland
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Jul 24, 2020 · The movie is bookended with extreme close ups of pigs eating in a barn next to a farmhouse where author George Orwell is writing his anti-communist masterpiece ANIMAL FARM, an allegory about socialist tyranny, specifically the communist regime in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin. Orwell is writing a letter to someone explaining his allegory.
- Tess Farrand
- James Norton
- Agnieszka Holland
Jun 19, 2020 · Mr Jones – An Idealist Tells Us Much about Holodomor This intriguing and well-cast film tells a timely story of the long-term historical conflict within the Ukraine/Russian tragedy. Highly suspect involvement by members of the international press (working within the USSR, England, USA, and Wales) is stripped bare - offering closer examination of the role played by members of international ...
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- James Norton
- Agnieszka Holland
Mar 2, 2020 · Published on 03 02 2020. Original Title: Mr Jones. The true story of Welsh journo Gareth Jones (a bespectacled James Norton — he’d make a great Clark Kent), who travelled to Russia to ...
Jun 15, 2020 · Movies centering around the time of World War II are plentiful, mainly because there's such a vast array of stories worth exploring within that time period. The story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, in particular, and his discovery of the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine, is an incredibly important one, with his discovery even inspiring George Orwell's novella "Animal Farm".
