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.
On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.
J.E.B. Stuart was given command of all cavalry forces of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on the 17th of August, 1862.
During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...
Not long after it was first possible to record the human voice (in an understandable way), the Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, addressed soldiers of th...
The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.
During the first decade of the twentieth century, political unrest threatened the fabric of Russian society.
This film is widely considered Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece. It depicts the Olympics, held in Berlin during the summer of 1936, and opens wi...
This trailer for the film "300," inspired by the Battle of Thermopylae, tells the story of the Spartans' last stand at the "Hot Gates.
Clarence Darrow, one of America's great trial lawyers, despised the death penalty.
Lewis and Clark remained friends until the end.
President Thomas Jefferson asked one of his key aides, twenty-eight-year-old Meriwether Lewis, to lead an expedition west - all the way to the "wester...
Thomas Jefferson appointed Captain Merriwether Lewis to be his personal secretary.
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