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.
In this video clip, Franciscan Father Greg Friedman provides the history (and purpose) of the papal fisherman's ring.
In this news-reel clip we see 5th Division Marines advancing on Iwo Jima behind artillery, naval, and aerial bombardment.
This video clip, from CERN, reveals what scientists believe is an "antimatter flash" in the Milky Way.
Kolyma, where the land is covered by permafrost for nine months and summers are insufferably hot, was once the scene of a notorious forced labor camp.
Vorkuta, in Russia's northern climes, was once home to a Soviet-era forced labor camp.
To see fossilized dinosaur bones, in situ, and to learn how those fossils can provide clues about continental drift, check out this video clip from NA...
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
This historical footage - during which Francois Pienaar discusses Nelson Mandela - sheds light on how the Springboks' captain viewed South Africa's Pr...
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man, and Dr.
In the summer of 1964, many white college students - from outside Mississippi - traveled to the Magnolia State to help black students aid African-Amer...
During the summer of 1964, university students from various places in the U.
The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud, was still resisting Hitler - on the 12th of June, 1940 - despite significant advances Germany had made into F...
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