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.
What is the Baseball Abstract which Bill James first wrote - as an annual book - in 1977?
In 1949, Dr. Billy Graham traveled by train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
Johanna took Ludwig back to court after her son, Karl, ran away from Beethoven's home.
In 1822, the London Philharmonic Society commissioned Beethoven to compose a new symphony.
HMS Hood was 860 feet long and weighed 48,000 tons.
Bismarck- Germany's fantastic new battleship - was heading for the Atlantic, via the Baltic, since her officers thought that would be a safer route.
In May of 1941, Germany dispatches its formidable new battleship, called the Bismarck, to interfere with - and sink - convoys en route to Britain.
Blackbeard, the famous pirate, was known as Edward Teach in his earlier life.
In the fourteenth century, bubonic plague swept through Europe, decimating the population.
This clip, from "Delta Force: Tier 1," includes interviews with some of the men who were part of the mission which the world knows as "Black Hawk Down...
Video clip of historical footage depicting street fighting during the Black Hawk Down battle in October of 1993.
A military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, goes terribly wrong when people on the ground shoot-down two Black Hawk helicopters. Thereafter a street b...
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