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.
When Iran nationalized its oil, Britain and its Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were no longer in charge of processing oil and getting it shipped to "the fr...
By 1951, when Mohammad Mossadeq (Mosaddegh) was Prime Minister of Iran, people in the West were worried that Iran would actually nationalize its vast ...
WARNING: THIS CLIP RECREATES SCENES FROM THE BATTLE FOR FREDERICKSBURG, DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer - whose book about her will be released after her death - discusses his subject's background ...
On the 23rd of November, 1990, the leader of the Labour Party - Neil Kinnock - brought a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons.
In this clip from "The Downing Street Years," by Fine Art Productions, Margaret Thatcher describes what it was like to be Prime Minister, living at Do...
In 1900, Galveston was one of the fastest-growing cities in America.
Given where he was living, in a Siberian forced-labor camp, Ivan Denisovich had a pretty good day.
Facing work in a new location, which has no shelter and no way to keep warm at all, Ivan Denisovich - prisoner C854 - welcomes being ill.
As the zeks endure a seemingly endless march, the sounds of their feet on the snow tell us how cold it really is.
The camp makes a profit from the prisoners' work, but nothing is shared with the zeks.
The zeks on Ivan Denisovich's team devour their lunch soup (and sop it up with stale bread saved from an earlier meal).
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