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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
During 1995, South Africa's senior rugby officials devised a strategy to rally all the people behind the Springboks.
Susan B. Anthony did not live long enough to see American women voting in a national election.
Kermit ("Kim") Roosevelt, Jr - grandson of U.
In 1951, the Shah of Iran appointed Dr. Mossadeq - a popular politician who was elected by people in Tehran to serve as their parliamentary represen...
Between October 22 and November 29, 1951, the United States government conducted nuclear-weapon tests at the Nevada Proving Ground (later called the N...
During late May and early June, of 1940, French, British and Canadian troops were trapped between the English Channel - near Dunkirk - and advancing G...
By the 4th of June, 1940, Operation Dynamo saved about 350,000 trapped French and British troops. The "Miracle of Dunkirk," however, was an evacuation...
This Universal Newsreel (really more like a documentary) provides primary-source information on the build-up to D-Day and take us to the initial Norma...
As World War II was reaching an end, officials in the U.
One of the greatest musicians in Greece, Orpheus plays so beautifully that Eurydice (a wood nymph) is released from her tree-trunk domain.
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