Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Nero became the Emperor of Rome in 54 AD.
THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.
THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.
At the beginning, the Tuskegee Airmen were not given much of a chance to participate in war zones (after they finally achieved the right to fly miliar...
This clip includes scenes of slave laborers, used by the Nazis, building formidable defenses in Hitler-controlled France.
German troops, along Normandy's beaches, did their best to resist the Allied invasion. This clip provides a German perspective of D-Day.
In the 1970s, people were concerned that countries would use nuclear weapons against each other.
The United States government filmed various tests of nuclear weapons.
Sixty percent of the Earth is covered by oceans.
Meet some of the sea's most interesting creatures in this clip from the BBC's wonderful series, The Blue Planet.
In 1999, at the Deerfield Beach Offshore Race, TalkStory's Team Lazzara crashes two days after a hurricane stirred-up the seas.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.
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