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.
This clip, the beginning scenes of The Agony and the Ecstasy, starts with a view of the Dome of St.
Michelangelo, the artist who loved to sculpt, is better known for his paintings - particularly his frescoes at the Sistine Chapel.
This clip is from The Agony and the Ecstasy, a 1965 film about the Italian artist Michelangelo and his incredible:sculptures (such as the Moses, David...
Mickey OKeefe played a significant role in Micky Ward's boxing comeback.
In this interview, between Micky Ward and Bob Halloran (who wrote the book Irish Thunder: The Hard Life Times of Micky Ward), Micky explains his boxi...
After their first fight, Micky Ward and Arturo Gotti were both treated at the same hospital.
Micky Ward and Dickie (Dicky) Eklund discuss their boxing careers and the film about their lives - "The Fighter" - in which Mark Wahlberg plays Ward a...
Today Micky Ward is helping other young men become boxers, and hes also teaching them how to give back.
Micky Ward talks about his friend and boxing opponent, Arturo Gatti, after Arturos death in 2009.
When Micky Ward was invited to fight Shea Neary, in London, Ward knew he was taking on a huge challenge.
Working on Deepwater Horizon, Mike Williams had to jump approximately ten stories from the rig to save his life.
In 1368, as Europeans were enduring the miseries of the Black Death, rulers of Chinas Ming Dynasty began a huge project - a wall, made mostly of stone...
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