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.
Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, knows a Russian aristocrat who fled Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. What's the history behind...
Sully and Jeff Skiles had 208 seconds between a bird strike and a forced water landing on the Hudson. Both testified during the NTSB investigation.
The story of how Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is almost as interesting as the work itself.
Portrait of Dr. Guillotin who sought a more-humane method of capital punishment during the French Revolution.
Interesting facts about MLK to ponder on MLK Day...such as why his father changed his name. While visiting Memphis, Tennessee - on the 4th of April, 1...
In 1951, the American government, in consultation with the National Education Association, created a film instructing young school children what to do...
Prince Albert, the Duke of York, is apprehensive about a speech he is to give at Wembley Stadium. It does not go well.
An effigy on the tomb of Edward of Woodstock, the first Prince of Wales who was also known as The Black Prince, gives us a glimpse of how he appeared ...
On the 11th of December, 1936, King Edward VIII signs an Instrument of Abdication by which he gives-up the British throne. Then he speaks to his peopl...
When Princess Elizabeth (played in this scene from Elizabeth R by Glenda Jackson) was imprisoned at the Tower of London - implicated in Wyatt's rebell...
In the fall of 1562, Elizabeth I (played by Glenda Jackson in this clip from Elizabeth R) became desperately ill with smallpox.
Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor, served as a port of entry - between 1892-1954 - for millions of European immigrants hoping for a new life in...
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