Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (which is pronounced SAU-an).
Harry Truman had been America's vice president for just a few months when FDR died, unexpectedly, on the 12th of April, 1945.
What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?
To this day, people in Ukraine (and elsewhere) remember the great famine of 1932-33.
The great famine of 1932-33, in Ukraine, took the lives of millions of people - yet, it is little known in the rest of the world.
This clip, from "Harvest of Despair," continues the story of the great Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
Concluding clip from "Harvest of Despair," a film which presents the great Ukrainian famine (of 1932-33) as a preventable event, engineered by the Sov...
In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...
Henry Tudor never expected to become king of England.
The "Higgs Boson" was "in the news" around the world on July 4, 2012.
When Germany's rigid airships were able to travel long distances, they required special recovery procedures to help them land. This video footage depi...
Who was Hirohito? What was he like as a boy? \What are his family roots? Did Japanese emperors always possess great power?
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