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.
After winning the Derby and the Preakness, could Secretariat become the first racehorse in twenty-five years to win the Triple Crown at Belmont?
When the First Emperor of China ordered the construction of a new wall, to protect the country's borders, it was quickly built by thousands of hard-wo...
About 600 civil-rights marchersmade their way across Route 80, in Selma, on the 7th of March, 1965.
Selma, a 2014 film, is about the efforts to march between Selma and Montgomery, during March of 1965, which became "Bloody Sunday." Activits attempted...
New York City was clear and beautiful on the morning of September 11, 2001.
When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, even reporters inside the building werent sure what was happening.
As news broadcasts aired the disaster at the World Trade Center's North Tower, another plane - United Flight 175 - struck the South Tower.
In 2001, Gedeon and Jules Naudet were filming a documentary about a young New York City firefighter from Engine 7, Ladder 1.
Four separate airplanes were hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Soon after the North Tower was damaged, another group of hijackers smashed a second plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
On the 24th of April, 1916, Ernest Shackleton realized his shipthe Endurancewas so badly stuck in ice that he had to take other measures to protect hi...
C.S. Lewis, an unmarried professor whom his friends called Jack, was a highly successful writer when he met an American woman named Joy Davidman Gresh...
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