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.

NOTE: THIS CLIP - BEGINNING SCENES FROM SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - DEPICTS A GRAPHIC RECREATION OF THE EVENTS OF WAR AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS APPROACHED, THEN ...

What was it like to come ashore during D-day?

Johanna Beyerinck - 26-year-old wife of the Dutch government's Controller in the district of Katimbang (in southern Sumatra) - didn't want to go to th...

These are the Morse-code transmissions which then-corporal Irving Strobing sent during the hours before Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942...

Two weeks before LBJ announced he would not seek his partys nomination for another term as President, Bobby Kennedy announced that he would run.

On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.

At the end of the first day of battle at Gettysburg - July 1, 1863 - Union lines had collapsed.

J.E.B. Stuart was given command of all cavalry forces of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on the 17th of August, 1862.

Not long after it was first possible to record the human voice (in an understandable way), the Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, addressed soldiers of th...

The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.

During the first decade of the twentieth century, political unrest threatened the fabric of Russian society.

This trailer for the film "300," inspired by the Battle of Thermopylae, tells the story of the Spartans' last stand at the "Hot Gates.

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