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.
A grandson of Genghis, Kublai became the Great Khan in 1260.
Henry VIII made sure that his son, Edward VI, was educated by Protestants.
NOTE: THIS CLIP - BEGINNING SCENES FROM SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - DEPICTS A GRAPHIC RECREATION OF THE EVENTS OF WAR AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS APPROACHED, THEN ...
What was it like to come ashore during D-day?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the largest particle accelerator in the world.
In this clip from "The Last Day of World War One," we see a replica of the railway carriage in which the Armistice was signed on the 11th of November,...
Johanna Beyerinck - 26-year-old wife of the Dutch government's Controller in the district of Katimbang (in southern Sumatra) - didn't want to go to th...
Hiding in his aunt's home, and repeatedly making phone calls to his son, Pablo Escobar misses his family. That loneliness is about to get him killed.
The last months of Beethoven's life were eventful.
These are the Morse-code transmissions which then-corporal Irving Strobing sent during the hours before Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942...
In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.
Two weeks before LBJ announced he would not seek his partys nomination for another term as President, Bobby Kennedy announced that he would run.
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