Effortlessly capturing the audience's attention through the mere power of spoken word, there's nothing quite like a perfect ...

What follows are the best of the best when it comes to movie monologues. From threats and explanations to tales of trauma and attempts at outreach. Taken ranks up there with Schindler’s List as an ...

By Alissa Wilkinson Late in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Frank Capra’s 1939 ode to democracy, free speech and the filibuster ... but by the end of the movie’s daylong filibuster ...

Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining the speeches that provoked radical change ...