Film Chapters

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.

Passengers aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to break into the cockpit, so the hijackers crash the plane in Pennsylvania.

Before he can find his "authentic swing," Junah needs to know how to live a better life.

With Mary in England, Elizabeth's advisors worry about Catholic conspiracies; they dupe Mary into plotting with Anthony Babington to escape and perhap...

After the surrender of Bataan, the Japanese force soldiers on a death march.

As lawyers for both sides fought, the case grew. Eventually 648 plaintiffs joined the lawsuit. (That did not account for all the people who had lived ...

648 plaintiffs join the lawsuit; add a claim to cover people who get sick in the future, and the lawsuit goes to trial.

La Bete is an animal which resembles a wolf but is larger, with a huge jaw and spikes on her back.

Civil war is coming to Ireland as violence divides the country. On May 3, 1921, the country is partitioned in two.

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. set off an atomic device as a test and then decides to use these weapons to bomb Japan.

The Bowery (meaning "farm" in Dutch) changes from a rural place to a jammed area with poor immigrants.

Dickie Eklund becomes a promising boxer from the depressed city of Lowell, Massachusetts.

General Kimura meets no resistance when the Japanese land in the Philippines; they enter Manila on January 2, 1942.

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