From a chili pepper to a pant-less lion.

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

From the gold rush to civil rights, the moon landing to 9/11, the US has always understood, mythologised and sold itself through the power of the still image ...

While some Independence Day weekend releases end up being duds, others join a rare list of absolute stone-cold classics.