Focus Features

Notes from the production of the Focus Features film Atonement.

To bring a historical novel to life, production designer Sarah Greenwood goes beyond finding the perfect decoration.

In Atonement's Britain, between the World Wars was not a lull in the storm, but a storm all its own. Bill Schwarz analyzes the shifting climate.

From Edison to Atonement, film has constantly reshaped the ways we imagine, if not wage, war. Joel Bleifuss reports.