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.
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
Seeing World War II through the eyes of those who fought it, and from the perspective of families who worried about their loved ones safety, Ken Burns...
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
During the Irish Civil War, brothers formerly united in their desire for a free-Ireland are split apart by a major disagreement.
Before the Doolittle Raiders flew to Tokyo, it seemed that Japan would win the war.
This historic film footage, taken by the Edison Film Company, depicts the state of ruin in San Francisco, following the April 1906 earthquake and subs...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
Before the Civil War erupted, Thomas Jonathon Jackson was a professor at VMI (Virginia Military Institute).
Thomas Paine - writer of numerous pamphlets during the American Revolution - knew how to put things in perspective.
This video clip provides a short history of the Thompson Submachine Gun, more commonly known as the "Tommy Gun.
Although the American Colonies have declared their independence from Britain, General Washington and his men are losing on the battlefields. Then Wash...
Millvina Dean, the last-surviving passenger of Titanics maiden voyage, kept her treasures from the doomed voyage (and its aftermath) for ninety-six ye...
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