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.
This clip, from the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, depicts sections from the "Auschwitz Album," donated by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
In April of 1942, Slovakia began handing over its Jews to the Nazi government.
On the 27th of March, 1977, two Boeing 747s approached each other on the same fog-shrouded runway.
Although 583 people died when two Boeing 747s collided in Tenerife, some individuals aboard the Pan American flight survived.
On the 4th of June, 2009, President Barack Obama gave a speech at Cairo University, in Cairo, Egypt.
The SS City of Benares was torpedoed by a German U-boat on in 1940 despite the September cold and a stormy sea Bess Walder Cummings and her brother su...
"Out of the blue," as survivors recall, the Battle of Britain begins on September 7, 1940. Hundreds of German bombers fly to England from their bases ...
Historians tell us that the Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest in history.
Bismarck- Germany's fantastic new battleship - was heading for the Atlantic, via the Baltic, since her officers thought that would be a safer route.
In the fourteenth century, bubonic plague swept through Europe, decimating the population.
This clip, from "Delta Force: Tier 1," includes interviews with some of the men who were part of the mission which the world knows as "Black Hawk Down...
Video clip of historical footage depicting street fighting during the Black Hawk Down battle in October of 1993.
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