Meet some of the world's most-colorful characters in this collection. From Roman times to the Spanish Main, these individuals were famous in their own lifetimes and later, when their stories became the "stuff of legends."
This is the trailer of Beowulf, a film which changes the original story in several ways, including: Beowulf is a flawed human being instead of an unto...
Now a fearsome pirate of the Caribbean, Blackbeard and his men captured a French ship called La Concorde.
Blackbeard, the famous pirate, was known as Edward Teach in his earlier life.
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...
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were "wanted" for a string of crimes on the 23rd of May, 1934.
In 1995, Mel Gibson produced, starred and directed a multi-award-winning film called "Braveheart.
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) was the youngest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Spain.
Meeting with a revered Taoist monk, in 1222, Genghis Khan unsuccessfully requested an elixir to prolong his life.
Underneath London's Royal Institution, Humphry Davy creates more than 800 Voltaic-Pile batteries and stuns his audience with an extremely bright elect...
This clip, from David Starkey's four-part series Elizabeth, focuses on the Queen's accession to the throne and her coronation at Westminster Abbey (on...
Robert Dudley (1532-1588), later the 1st Earl of Leicester, and Elizabeth I were close friends from the time Elizabeth became queen until Dudley died.
WARNING: THIS CLIP INCLUDES LANGUAGE WHICH DESCRIBES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN.
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