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.
Depicted in the film, Bitter Harvest, Ukraine (and its people) suffered a disastrous famine when government policies impacted food production and dist...
This is the story of Faust, based on the dramatic poem by Goethe and adapted for the screen - in 1926 - by F.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt first took the Presidential oath on the 4th of March, 1933.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP - AN ANIMATION OF FEEDING-TUBES AND THEIR INSTALLATION IN THE HUMAN BODY - CONTAINS THE USE OF NEEDLES.
Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it?
A pyroclastic surge - a deadly, fast-moving avalanche of searing gas and rock fragments - made its way toward Herculaneum.
On the 1st of December, 1958, Chicago was the scene of another catastrophic fire.
The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to freely express themselves.
Qin Shi Hunagdi ruled by fear.
How was Ying Zheng, China's first emperor, able to unify seven warring states which highly valued independence?
Qin Shi Huangdi died when he was fifty years old, leaving a mixed legacy.
Two days after launch, the shuttle Columbia returned to Earth.
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