Famous Historical Topics & Events Videos

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

This clip - from "Great British Railway Journeys" - follows the Victorian-era "Bradshaw's Railway Guide.

President Roosevelt attended his last "Big Three Conference" in February of 1945.

In this clip, from Cry Freedom, Denzel Washington portrays Stephen Biko.

This clip is part 2 of the AFN (Armed Forces Network) Bremerhaven interview with Bill James.

HMS Hood was 860 feet long and weighed 48,000 tons.

Bismarck- Germany's fantastic new battleship - was heading for the Atlantic, via the Baltic, since her officers thought that would be a safer route.

In May of 1941, Germany dispatches its formidable new battleship, called the Bismarck, to interfere with - and sink - convoys en route to Britain.

Now a fearsome pirate of the Caribbean, Blackbeard and his men captured a French ship called La Concorde.

In the fourteenth century, bubonic plague swept through Europe, decimating the population.

This clip, from "Delta Force: Tier 1," includes interviews with some of the men who were part of the mission which the world knows as "Black Hawk Down...

Video clip of historical footage depicting street fighting during the Black Hawk Down battle in October of 1993.

The Pentagon has released actual footage of the raid undertaken in "Operation Gothic Serpent," more commonly referred to as "Black Hawk Down."

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