Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
When Germany's rigid airships were able to travel long distances, they required special recovery procedures to help them land. This video footage depi...
What was it like to be a crewman aboard the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the world's first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
A story of hope, amidst all the heartbreak and devastation in Hiroshima, following a nuclear blast.
This is a clip from Thomas A.
All the Allies wanted to capture Wernher von Braun. On the morning of April 11, 1945, the Americans found his underground production facility.
One way a tsunami can develop is when the energy from an earthquake below the ocean is transferred to the ocean surface above the quake's epicenter.
Before (and after) the Wright Brothers, people died trying to fly.
Sir David Attenborough explains how icebergs form when glaciers calve.
This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...
The mother of one of the children who died in the fire, at Our Lady of the Angels School, remembers what happened on December 1, 1958.
A video clip dedicated to the memory of Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart, two of the heroes of Black Hawk Down.
In 1998, the Catholic Church opened the archive of the Holy Office of the Inquisition for a limited review.
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