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.
Medgar Evers was fatally shot by Byron de la Beckwith.
Knights jousting, on magnificent horses, was a hugely popular sport during the middle ages.
The great-great grandson of Charles Dickens introduces us to his famous ancestor whose novels remain popular today.
Sometimes tectonic plates, pushing against each other in a subduction zone, become "stuck.
Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Orchestra on the 15th of September, 2001 in honor of all who died four days before.
For centuries, alchemists believed that mercury could be turned into gold.
The rifle featured in this video clip, from the National Firearms Museum, is a Girandoni System Austrian Repeating Air Rifle.
Meyer Lansky, according to people who knew him, built his "business" on his word.
Newspapers reported that Meyer Lansky had $300 million.
Close to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky helped his friend reach the top of the criminal world.
When he was arrested for illegal gambling, Meyer Lansky did not want to testify against his friends.
Pope Julius II talks to Michelangelo about his work, on the creation of Adam, in this scene from The Agony and the Ecstacy (a 1965 film based on the b...
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