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.

Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (which is pronounced SAU-an).

Harry Truman had been America's vice president for just a few months when FDR died, unexpectedly, on the 12th of April, 1945.

This video clip - shot by an amateur film maker - shows the roof of the Ringling Bros.

Family members tried to identify remains of their loved ones at the Connecticut State Armory.

Newsreel footage, of the Hartford Circus Fire's aftermath, depicts the devastation which occurred on July 6, 1944.

What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?

To this day, people in Ukraine (and elsewhere) remember the great famine of 1932-33.

The great famine of 1932-33, in Ukraine, took the lives of millions of people - yet, it is little known in the rest of the world.

This clip, from "Harvest of Despair," continues the story of the great Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.

Concluding clip from "Harvest of Despair," a film which presents the great Ukrainian famine (of 1932-33) as a preventable event, engineered by the Sov...

Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity on the 1st of March, 1896.

In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...

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