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.
In this clip of historic footage, compiled by Argenta Images, we see Jackie and Rachel Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stankey.
Sixty years after D-day, and the Allied landings at Normandy, two British pilots who transported troops on a wooden glider recall how their efforts le...
During the years of the Great Depression, the U.
In this clip from "Pompeii: The Last Day," we step back in time to learn what happened when Vesuvius powerfully exploded, burying the towns of Pompeii...
This clip, from the BBC's "Human Planet" series, features stories about people who live in the rainforest - including a family who built a treehouse a...
Perseus - an ancestor of Heracles in Greek mythology (Hercules in Roman) - was cast adrift in a sea chest not long after he was born.
After Perseus became a young man, he was sent on a mission to destroy a once-beautiful-girl-turned-monster, named Medusa:When Perseus was grown up Pol...
Perseus, so the legends say, was a son of Zeus. But ... he was a demigod because his mother was a mortal.
Peter Minuit (also known as Pierre Minuyt) was 46 years old when he arrived in "New Netherland" on the 4th of May, 1626.
When the leaves of trees take-in carbon dioxide (which they need to live) they go through a process of releasing oxygen (which people and animals need...
In this clip, from "Gettysburg," General Longstreet instructs Colonel Alexander and General Pettigrew on the details for an attack which has since bee...
In this video-clip from The Greatest Story Ever Told, based on the Gospels and a book (of the same name) by Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), Pilate (the Ro...
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