When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
Continuing with his theories on motion, Galileo used a horse to demonstrate that the Earth moves.
By the following spring, after Tuscany was no longer severely threatened by the plague, Galileo could once again communicate with Rome.
When a new Pope was elected in Rome - Urban VIII - Galileo believed his ideas would finally be accepted.
Before Galileo had a chance to plead his cause before the Inquisitor, the Council voted 11-0 that the Earth did not move.
Gandhi once told an associate (V.
Gandhi's stunning achievements, and his legacy of non-violent resistance, became a model for other leaders of oppressed people.
As he considered the best way to deal with South African discrimination, Gandhi developed communities of people from different races and religions.
This clip is from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist...
This clip is also from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stal...
This clip is from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist...
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP IS FROM A DOCUMENTARY ON THE GULAG AND SOVIET-ERA FORCED LABOR CAMPS.
Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."
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