Famous Historical Topics & Events Videos

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

This video clip includes an interview with Margaret Thatcher following her victory in 1974.

Looking back, to make sure her husband Denis is there, Margaret Thatcher addresses the gathered crowd, then leaves Number 10 Downing Street (the Londo...

In this video - highlighting Margaret Thatcher's speech to the House of Commons on the 30th of October, 1990 - she explains why she is so opposed to B...

In this clip, from the BBC program "The Downing Street Years," Margaret Thatcher describes why she allowed America to use British bases during a deplo...

This clip, from a BBC documentary on Margaret Thatcher, includes her remarks after the Brighton bombing.

It was huge news - throughout the United Kingdom - when a sitting Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, resigned her position.

WARNING: THE LANGUAGE USED IN THIS VIDEO CLIP MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

Marie & Pierre Curie were married scientists who first isolated radioactive radium salts on the 20th of April, 1902. Learn more about their world-chan...

Nine months after her husband (King Louis XVI) was executed, Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine.

In its heyday, the American circus was the blockbuster entertainment center of the world.

As the spacecraft carrying an exploratory rover descends to Mars, controllers on Earth are monitoring what is occurring hundreds of millions of miles ...

Hitting the Martian surface at about 40 Gs, a lander carrying the Mars rover is cushioned by air bags.

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