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.
On the 11th of July, 1963, the police decided to raid Liliesleaf Farm.
THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.
Nikolai Getman (1917-2004) was a Ukrainian artist who served time as a forced laborer in Siberias Kolyma camps.
German troops, along Normandy's beaches, did their best to resist the Allied invasion. This clip provides a German perspective of D-Day.
Dostoevsky worked on Notes from Underground in 1863.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about life as a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp, in Siberia's GULAG, is based onhis own experience.
Looking more like an estate than a prison, La Catedral is Pablo Escobar's self-designed and self-chosen place of confinement after he surrenders to th...
WARNING - THE BEGINNING OF THIS CLIP, FROM A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR AND HIS FAMILY, CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
"A New India" was born in August of 1947 split into two along religious lines.
In "The Hunger Games," people believe that District 13 (once a part of Panem) no longer exists. It was destroyed, they think, by the Capitol. Then...K...
Even when it was first released, critics raved about this 1928 silent-film interpretation ofJoan of Arc, starring Maria Falconetti.
This aerial photograph of Pearl Harbor was taken on the 30th of October, 1941 - about five weeks before Japan attacked the naval base.
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