Biographies Videos

We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.

Millvina Dean, the last-surviving passenger of Titanics maiden voyage, kept her treasures from the doomed voyage (and its aftermath) for ninety-six ye...

The flag-raising at Mt.

This trailer - for the film "Enemy at the Gates" - tells the story of a sniper legend stemming from one of the most horrific battles of World War II -...

J.M. Barrie - whose family called him "Jamie" when he was young - wrote one of the most-beloved of all children's stories.

After his marriage to Anne Boleyn - and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth - Henry VIII decided to look elsewhere for a wife.

Modern technology and ancient writings help scholars to search for the truth about Troy.

Tsar Nicholas II, of Russia, was once the most powerful and richest man on Earth.

Part 4 of "Caught on Camera.

Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.

Was Einstein so brilliant that he could dismiss the unpredictability of quantum mechanics - or - was he simply wrong that everything (including outcom...

As another German assault against Verdun began on the 23rd of June, 1916, French troops remembered the words of their General to not let the enemy pas...

Head of the greatest empire on earth, Victoria was a woman of contradictions.

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