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.
The Pentagon has released actual footage of the raid undertaken in "Operation Gothic Serpent," more commonly referred to as "Black Hawk Down."
Super 64 - a Black Hawk piloted by CWO3 (Chief Warrant Officer 3) Mike Durant - went down in Mogadishu on the 3rd of October, 1993.
Top-secret work took place in top-secret places at this British code-breaking haven during World War II. Some of the smartest people in the wo...
Soldiers and sailors at Kronstadt, on an island off St Petersburg (called Petrograd at the time), were growing agitated as the Great War continued to ...
Britain has successfully fought a very costly war in the American colonies - the French and Indian War - but now the Americans are rebelling against...
This is the trailer for "Blow," a film which tells the story of George Jung - and how his cocaine-using-selling ways got him into serious trouble (wit...
Near the source of the Blue Nile, people still use boats, made of papyrus reeds, which are based on an ancient design.
While he was still Attorney General, during his brothers administration, Bobby Kennedy told journalists that an African-American could be president of...
This is the trailer for "Bobby," a film about the assassination of Senator Kennedy by Emilio Estevez.
When he was just twenty years old, Bob Dylan wrote a song about "The Death of Emmett Till.
During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...
Iron-Age mummies, naturally formed in peat bogs thousands of years ago, provide evidence of life during ancient times.
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