Audiences often go to movies to see a great actor give a great performance. But often a film gets its life and energy from a stellar company of actors working together as an ensemble.

Jonathan Erland and the visual effects crew that worked on the original "Star Wars" had to build everything from scratch. And afterward, they threw a lot of it in a dumpster, including the models for the original Death Star.

Has the White House been meddling in Moscow? Here's a view from on the ground in Russia.

When Ugandan rapper Keko moved to Canada, she became a hockey fan. But she was less excited about learning how to skate.

The mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, is still grabbing headlines more than a week after the tragedy, and many of those headlines are overseas. We spoke with two foreign correspondents based in the US about what it's like to cover mass shootings and gun rights for audiences overseas.

The team practices all over Asia and the Middle East. "Our goal is to find safe places outside of Afghanistan," she says, "so everyone who comes to camp can feel safe and can train and feel good about the environment, and focus on football."

A deep dive into the 'K' in K-pop and traditional Korean music.

"I’m not here to say that my experience ... is the definitive Filipino-American experience," said Ruby Ibarra, who is out with her first album. "It’s just one lens, one glimpse of the story.”

These days, the online debates about gun control come with a steroid boost from Twitter bots seeking to divide Americans even further. Host Marco Werman speaks with Erin Griffith, a senior writer at Wired, who wrote about the surge in bot traffic.

Marvel Comics reimagines the sub-Saharan.