Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
Following a series of disasters in Europe - such as a colder climate, impacting crops, leading to insufficient food - a strange disease began to kill ...
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
Trailer for "The Impossible" which tells the real-life story of Maria Beln, Enrique Alvarez and their three sons.
When she became Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government implemented radical policies to help Britain improve its economic po...
When he was 18 years old, Pliny the Younger and his mother were living at his Uncle's villa in Misenum.
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
This historic film footage, taken by the Edison Film Company, depicts the state of ruin in San Francisco, following the April 1906 earthquake and subs...
Millvina Dean, the last-surviving passenger of Titanics maiden voyage, kept her treasures from the doomed voyage (and its aftermath) for ninety-six ye...
Although there were not enough life boats aboard the Titanic, at least 473 additional people could have been saved if all the places in the lowered bo...
Trailer for the film, Black Hawk Down.
John Boyne's novel - "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" - is now a major motion picture. This clip presents one of its trailer.
On the morning of December 26, 2004 - before a tsunami strike occurred in many countries bordering the northern Indian Ocean - animal caretakers repor...
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