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.
As soon as the Japanese government had information about the likelihood of a massive tsunami - following the 8.
What is a tsunami? Why do tsunami waves grow taller the closer they get to shore?
Tuberculosis was one of the most dreaded diseases of the 19th century.
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
This clip, from "Harvest of Despair," continues the story of the great Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
The great famine of 1932-33, in Ukraine, took the lives of millions of people - yet, it is little known in the rest of the world.
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
This clip, from Discovery Education, provides an introduction to The Odyssey (by Homer) and introduces us to Ulysses (Odysseus), the story's hero.
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED BY ANGRY, UPSET PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING.
Iran and America had friendly diplomatic relations until 1953, when the U.
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