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<p><strong>Here Bums The Bride: </strong>Lars von Trier's <em>Melancholia </em>centers on a newlywed (Kirsten Dunst) whose chronic depression leaves her singularly well-equipped to confront the end of the world. </p>

High Anxieties Make For A Mad, Mad Movie World

Melancholia, Take Shelter and other recent films about characters fighting delusion or depression highlight the way filmmakers keep audiences guessing — and keep movies interesting — with fractured narrative and stylized visuals.

Standing before a crowd 250,000 strong, Mick Jagger opened The Rolling Stones' 1969 concert at London's Hyde Park by reading a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem in tribute to late guitarist Brian Jones.

Rolling Stones To Return To Hyde Park After 44 Years

The Stones' 1969 concert at the park drew 250,000 people and was tinged with sorrow, coming just two days after the death of founding member Brian Jones. Just before performing, Mick Jagger silenced the crowd for a remembrance of Jones.

Extras on Game of Thrones leave a bullring in Seville, Spain, on Oct. 22, 2014. More than 85,000 locals applied to be extras on the show.

Obsessed 'Game Of Thrones' Fans Seek Plot Parallels In Spanish Politics

This summer in Spain, "Winter is coming" — a reference to HBO's Game of Thrones, which is partly filmed there, and a popular slogan for a left-wing, grassroots political party.

Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria.

EMPIRE

Airs Monday - Friday, Dec. 21 - 25, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Very Strange Life Of Nepal's Child Goddess

She's young and beautiful. A glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune. She's Nepal's Living Goddess, or Kumari, who is selected as a small child and lives a life of isolation and secrecy.

Where Were You? Stephen King Recasts JFK's Killing

In King's latest novel, 11/22/63, a high school teacher is recruited to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The masterful science fiction writer revisits a real American horror story — a day when truth was scarier than fiction.

King George V in coronation robes, 1911.

The House Of Windsor: The First Windsors, 1911 - 1936

Airs Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Self-Declared Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Saudi Mosque Attack

A suicide bomber killed several people in a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia Friday, raising fears of anti-Shiite violence there.

Much of the Netherlands is below sea level, including Amsterdam. Urgenda argues that any rise in the sea level could have a huge impact on the country.

A Novel Dutch Lawsuit Demands Govt. Cut Carbon Emissions

An environmental group is behind the class-action suit that says the government is not doing enough to protect citizens. The case is being closely watched and a ruling is set for next month.

An elderly Japanese woman carries water past a home destroyed several days earlier on Jan. 17, 1995, by a powerful earthquake centered in Kobe, Japan. More than 6,000 people were killed and destruction was widespread, but the city was rapidly rebuilt.

Measuring Earthquakes With More Than Just One Scale

Earthquakes seem to be at their cruelest when striking developing nations like Nepal. A research center has tried to calculate how vulnerable nations are based on their resources and coping skills.

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