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.
Henry Mucci and his special forces gather information and local help to plan the rescue of prisoners at Cabanatuan.
Aerial view of Iwo Jima at about the time of the battle. It was here that thousands of people died between February-March, 1945. Department of D...
Evelyn provides a platform for reform with her story, but the Irish industrial schools still exist.
Seabiscuit and his owner both die of heart problems; Seabiscuit's grave is by an unmarked oak tree at his ranch in California.
New technology allows exploration of the Titanic and other ships.
Three of the Davies boys die, and Barrie dies of bronchitis in 1937; he leaves all rights to Peter Pan to help fund Great Ormond Street Hospital for C...
Wladyslaw Szpilman writes of his experiences as a survivor of the Nazi regime, and tells of Hosenfeld's good deeds.
After Alexander the Great's death, his body is brought to Egypt where it is preserved. History records that in 30 BC, Caesar Augustus viewed the remai...
The movie Chicago is made after the 1996 revival of the musical.
Xerxes chooses to bring his army through Thermopylae, in central Greece, which consists of a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea.
In the Roman Games, gladiators either fight each other or fight animals to the death.
Gladiators fight each other and animals in the Roman games.
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