"Father Joseph T. Callahan was the first military chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor. An unlikely war hero, the bespectacled math professor from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, became the U.S. Navy's first Jesuit chaplain, and he served in combat in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He was on board the USS Franklin, an Essex-class aircraft carrier known as "Big Ben", during the Okinawa campaign in early 1945, when...

No matter what your political stance, few political campaigns in our recent history have been as dramatic as that of President Barack Obama, who overcame a fierce primary battle, an ugly general election campaign, and, yes, that name, to become America's first African-American president. This film is a compelling account of that campaign, capturing off-the-cuff moments and strategy sessions with campaign adviser David Axelrod, communications director...