Filmmaker Michael Mann is known for his exacting research and exhaustive preparation, work that goes into such moody, existential portraits as “Heat,” “The Insider,” “Ali,” “Miami Vice,” “Blackhat” ...

The winding road that leads to Sally Mann's home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is dotted with lush green fields, where horses graze and gallop when visitors turn a corner. There's a ...

It’s fitting that Michael Mann should be honored at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, since the director of “Ali,” “Heat” and “The Insider” began his filmmaking career in France. After graduating from the ...

The scientist Michael Mann is challenging attacks on his work in a defamation suit that’s taken 12 years to come to trial. Michael Mann at a documentary screening in 2016. Credit...Slaven Vlasic/Getty ...

On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once ...

In a D.C. courtroom, a trial is wrapping up this week with big stakes for climate science. One of the world's most prominent climate scientists is suing a right-wing author and a policy analyst for ...

In 1950, a Briefly Noted reviewer in this magazine made short work of “The Thomas Mann Reader,” an anthology culled from the German novelist’s vast prose output: “The total impression created by this ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty of violating the Mann Act that involves federal prostitution allegations, but he was acquitted of sex trafficking and RICO charges. The jury's decision not to ...

"We're not just telling stories," said YouTuber Dhar Mann with a smile, "we're changing lives." Mann signs off many of his uber-popular inspirational videos with this promise. With 27 million Facebook ...

In a dying act of defiance, Polish dancer and Holocaust victim Franceska Mann shot and killed SS officer Josef Schillinger. Multiple accounts document that in October 1943, SS officer Josef ...