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.
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
Her accusers know that Joan of Arc is afraid of death by burning at the stake, but they condemn her to this method of execution anyway. This clip depi...
Jim Morris - high-school science teacher and coach - agreed to try out for major-league baseball when his students made a pact with him.
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, remains a classic work of American literature. This embedded video, a SparkNotes cartoon summary (...
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
As his own father had abandoned his mother and her baby, Theseus abandoned his new wife, Ariadne.
Theseus and The Minotaur is a Greek myth about the son of an Athenian king - Theseus - and a horrifying monster - "The Minotaur.
With his father's sword in hand, Theseus killed the Minotaur.
Theseus learned that his father was Aegeus, King of Athens, after he was able to move a heavy rock and discover what was beneath it.
Nathaniel Ayers - called "the soloist" in this film - was once an extremely talented student of music.
WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS NEWSREEL CLIPS OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
Shakespeare wrote immortal lines for this play, including the now-famous phrase: "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle..."
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