What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.
This trailer - for the film "Enemy at the Gates" - tells the story of a sniper legend stemming from one of the most horrific battles of World War II -...
The battle for Iwo Jima, in 1945, claimed the lives of thousands of men on both sides of the conflict.
Mary Surratt - accused of being a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - was tried before a military tribunal, instead of a j...
King Tut's tomb is opened Feb 13, 1924. Patron George Herbert (5th Earl of Carnarvon), owner of "Downton Abbey" (Highclere Castle), dies before Tutank...
On 16 July 1945, a massive explosion occurs in the Trinity Test. It is the first time an atomic bomb has detonated.
This footage reenacts the scene at the Trinity Test site.
As this orange-and-yellow fireball stretched up and spread, a mushroom cloud began to form.
Homer's Iliad tells the tale of Troy and the Trojan War.
Modern technology and ancient writings help scholars to search for the truth about Troy.
Following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, who had recently won an unprecedented fourth term as Americas president, Harry Truman was sworn in as the c...
Tsar Nicholas II, of Russia, was once the most powerful and richest man on Earth.
This rare historic film footage, from the Russian State Archives, depicts scenes from the coronation of Nicholas II.
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