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.
Despite the sorrows, some people had reasons to celebrate.
People living in the USSR endured unbearable suffering when the Nazi regime sent its military might into Soviet territory.
Thousands of fleeing refugees, seeking to escape the advancing Soviet Army, crowd the roads as East Prussia is cut-off from the rest of Germany.
The world's deadliest shipwreck is also one of its least-known tragedies.
Survivors of the Wilhelm Gustloff disaster recall what it was like after their ship is struck by three Soviet torpedoes.
As the Gustloff leaves Gotenhafen, the ship carries 1,000 U-boat cadets.
On the 20th of January, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton (formerly the governor of Arkansas) became America's 42nd president.
This clip - from a Ric Burns documentary about New York City - provides information about Tammany Hall and its nineteenth-century leader, Boss Tweed.
In an effort to get the American public used to African-American pilots flying U.
Children in Bolivia - with, or without, their parents - walk an hour to work in some of the country's tin mines.
Karol had to get a job acceptable to the Nazi authorities running Poland.
The Germans tolerated no descent from the Polish clergy.
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