He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website, Crux, though…

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged…

Six of his movies received Academy Awards, including the Italian drama “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” and the trade-union strike documentary “American Dream.”

His work, including the 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin,” exposed the often harsh realities of life experienced by his fellow Arabs in Israel.

As Wotan in Patrice Chéreau’s neo-Marxist staging of the “Ring” cycle, he was part of a celebrated, polarizing moment in opera history.

For generations of Algerians, the fierce independence of her persona reflected their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression.

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when…

Their marriage made news in France, but they were an unhappy couple, and it didn’t last. Years later, they attacked each other in dueling memoirs.

Before helping lead the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in 1981, he helped found the first Ronald McDonald House to help the families of…

He helped build H. Ross Perot’s company Electronic Data Systems into a leading data processing firm. He later played a crucial role in Mr. Perot’s…