When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
Prisoners who were sent to Siberian penal colonies, during Tsarist times, could be punished with facial branding (among other things).
Smolny Convent, located near the Neva River in St. Petersburg, began as a home for Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great (and future Empress of R...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
When the Bolsheviks came to power, during the Russian Revolution, they were led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
When the Puritans arrived in America, they continued the use of the pillory. Intended to punish people by humiliation, among other things, the pillory...
Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first ...
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
When Lt. Col Tuan refused to teach saboteurs how to drive tanks, during the Vietnam War, those saboteurs murdered Tuan, then machine-gunned his wife, ...
Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.
Ordered to travel to London, to stand trial for treason, Cardinal Wolsey stops at Leicester Abbey in November of 1530. He dies there, soon after his a...
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