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.

On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.

On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.

On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.

On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.

On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.

On June 30, 1905, an obscure patent-office clerk in Switzerland submits a world-changing paper. Without the brilliance of Albert Einstein and his "mir...

Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.

Her accusers know that Joan of Arc is afraid of death by burning at the stake, but they condemn her to this method of execution anyway. This clip depi...

Disregarding personal peril, Germans - like Dietrich Bonhoeffer - resisted Hitler.

Jim Morris - high-school science teacher and coach - agreed to try out for major-league baseball when his students made a pact with him.

This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.

Seeing World War II through the eyes of those who fought it, and from the perspective of families who worried about their loved ones safety, Ken Burns...

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