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.

In this clip - from the PBS documentary, "Eyes on the Prize" - Moses ("Mose") Wright tells what happened the night Roy Bryant and J.

When the mood of the people turned against Mossadeq, during the 1953 coup, he was arrested and his home was ransacked. This clip, which includes hi...

Joseph Goebbels, in charge of propaganda and enlightenment during Hitlers rule of Germany, wanted movies which told good stories - in addition to film...

This video clip, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains how the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) works and what it is finding on the Martian...

Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.

Believed to be a superpower of ancient Greece, Mycenae was home to King Agamemnon.

On the 9th of August, 1945, a B-29 called Bocks Car dropped a plutonium-239 bomb dubbed Fat Man on the city of Nagasaki.

This film provides a history of NASA's first decade and its role in space exploration.

On the 18th of October, 1989, NASA launched a spacecraft - called "Galileo" - to orbit the planet Jupiter.

Nathan Hale was 21-years-old when the British executed him (in 1776) as a spy.

The Navajo people viewed their lands - including their mountains - as sacred.

Navajo children, today, still hear the stories about "The Long Walk" from their family members.

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