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 is archival footage of the actual soldiers who were rescued from the Cabanatuan death camp and the men (including Lt.

After China was united, the First Emperor sent 300,000 soldiers to the northern frontier to drive back invading nomads.

Paving the way for other activists to integrate Woolworth lunch counters, four African-Americans sat in "whites-only" seats at the Greensboro, North C...

Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...

NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.

NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP ABOUT A WORLD WAR II BATTLE COMBINES HISTORICAL FOOTAGE, FROM THE U.S. National Archives with interviews and recreated scenes.

Four thousand more Japanese troops secretly arrive at Guadalcanal in late August, 1942.

Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."

On January 12, 2010, cameras at the U.S. Embassy, in Haiti's capital city, record in real time the impact of a devastating quake.

Despite rumors of a tsunami, following the January 12 Haitian earthquake, none occurred because this quake resulted from a strike-slip fault.

Five years after the people of Halifax buried so many of Titanic's victims, another ship caused a catastrophe in their own town.

This brilliant animation of the Bayeux Tapestry is by David Newton.

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