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.

Born on September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was the writer of still-famous 19th-century Russian masterpieces. See him in this rare video from the Russian S...

Lewis and Clark remained friends until the end.

President Thomas Jefferson asked one of his key aides, twenty-eight-year-old Meriwether Lewis, to lead an expedition west - all the way to the "wester...

Thomas Jefferson appointed Captain Merriwether Lewis to be his personal secretary.

Despite dreadful conditions and too-few horses, Lewis & Clark reach the Great Falls on June 13, 1805. Sacagawea soon makes a remarkable discovery, lea...

As the Corps of Discovery pushed forward, into the heart of the Great Plains, the explorers saw "little toy dogs.

With Shoshone horses and a Shoshone guide, Lewis and Clark forged ahead with their men.

French resistors started an uprising against the German occupation during August of 1944.

NASA has released this re-entry and landing video of a mission during which the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour documented a reading of Mach 25.

On the 19th of November, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd of people at Gettysburg.

This clip, about how the Great Wall of China was built, explains how the various sections of it were linked together.

Mark Logue - grandson of Lionel Logue and author of a book entitled The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy - takes us behind the sc...

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