Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
Image of a drawing depicting a scene at the trial of Louis XVI when the charges against him were read to the court.
A DEA agent guards 5,137 pounds of cocaine seized from a Panamanian ship docked in Miami, Florida.
William Seward survived the attack by Lewis Powell (Payne), but it left him permanently disfigured.
Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.
When William Wallace arrived in London, soon-after his capture near Glasgow, he was put on trial. It would not go well for him.
La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, urges people to fight internal tyranny. See the English translation and listen to a spellbinding performa...
A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.
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