Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.
WARNING: THIS CLIP IS PART 7 FROM A DOCUMENTARY INTRODUCED DURING THE NUREMBERG WAR-CRIMES TRIAL IN 1945.
As the Kronstadt sailors stormed the Winter Palace, appropriating its considerable wine collection along the way, Lenin was consolidating his power ba...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
Susan B. Anthony did not live long enough to see American women voting in a national election.
"A New India" was born in August of 1947 split into two along religious lines.
One of the most-famous lines from the American Revolution still resonates: Give me liberty or give me death!
During the years of the Great Depression, the U.
During a late-in-life interview, Botha expresses his views regarding Mandela and his rule of South Africa.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE AND RECREATED EVENTS WHICH MAY BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOME VIEWERS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN. ...
Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.
Senator Robert Kennedy flew to California, in March of 1966, to look into the claims of striking farm workers.
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