Since the era of "silent films," moving pictures are an important part of worldwide culture. How did movies get their start? What are the stories behind the movies? Enjoy hundreds of stories in this Collection.
Paris falls in love with Helen and abducts her. Sparta's King Menelaus is already Helen's husband, and talks the Greeks into going to war with Troy to...
General James M. Gavin foresees using armed helicopters to bring US troops (sky troopers) in by air.
Henry Mucci and his special forces surprise the Japanese and rescue prisoners from Cabanatuan.
Although he and Catherine of Aragon have a daughter, Princess Mary, Henry VIII wants a living son. This leads to problems with his marriage.
Heorot is the Danish King Hrothgar's mead-hall, which Beowulf defends against the monster Grendel.
T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.
Postal workers on the Titanic try to save letters and packages.
Dickie goes to jail for carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery; he emerges a changed man.
Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.
After WWII, Greece fights a civil war - civilians against the army - and then, in 1953, there is a terrible earthquake.
Hitler, sensing the Germans might be losing Stalingrad, forbids his generals from surrendering.
Hitler creates the Nuremberg Laws to discriminate against Jews. On January 20, 1942 leading Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference to discuss, among othe...
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