Tragedies and Triumphs Videos

One of the most dangerous parts of a shuttle mission is when Houston gives the order to "go at throttle up.

On the 1st of February, 2003, two RNAF (Royal Dutch Air Force) pilots were training on a Longbow Apache Helicopter (AH-64) out of Fort Hood, Texas. Th...

About 84,000 pieces of shuttle debris fell to Earth, but investigators needed to locate the orbiter's flight-data recorder.

This video clip, from the BBC's documentary Last Flight of Columbia, includes pre-flight interviews with crew members who died sixteen minutes before ...

This video was the only video recovered after Columbia disintegrated during re-entry.

Following the loss of Columbia, NASA's investigation team recreates what must have happened.

Beethoven worked on the Appassionata at a time when French soldiers occupied Vienna.

This Universal Newsreel depicts the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth, his Queen Consort, on May 12, 1937.

Rodya Raskolnikov (played, in this BBC production, by John Simm) is a poor student living in a non-desirable section of St Petersburg.

Writing the story about Roskolnikov, and his interior struggles, Dostoevsky takes us inside Roskolnikov's mind.

Roskolnikov's plan to only kill the old pawnbroker (Alyona Ivanovna) went awry when Lizaveta, her sister, walked in on the murder.

Set in St Petersburg, in the second half of the 19th century, Crime and Punishment - a psychological thriller - tells the story of a young murderer wh...