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10 Movies That Defined the Vietnam War on the Big Screen

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A Very Strange Alcatraz Painting From a 1973 KQED Auction Is Back Up for Sale

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After 100 Episodes, ‘History of the Bay’ Expands Its Horizons

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Bay Area Groups Reel From Trump’s Cuts to the National Endowment of the Humanities

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Mark Synnott Heads ‘Into the Ice’ to Chase the Mystery of Sir John Franklin

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Revisiting the 1968 SFSU Student Strike While Trump Targets Campus Protesters

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Honoring the Girls Incarcerated in San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum

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The Real-Life Tales Behind ‘Freaky Tales’

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Where Did the April Fools’ Day Tradition Come From?

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Eclectic, Newly Unearthed Films to Be Screened for the First Time in Decades

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From Pointy Hats to the Murder of Innocents, ‘The Story of Witches’ Revives the Past

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Check Out These Old VHS Tapes of Festival at the Lake

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