Famous People Videos

People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people

Stopping in the northern city of Magadan, which once was the center of brutal Stalinist forced-labor camps, Solzhenitsyn pays homage to the many peopl...

Alexander was a Macedonian prince, the son of Philip II and his wife Olympias.

While his father was still alive, Alexander (who was not-yet called "The Great") tamed a beautiful horse, called Bucephalas, whom no one else was able...

Trailer for "Alexander," a film by Oliver Stone.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - also known as Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - was a Nobel-Prize winning author born in Russia on the 11th of December, 1918...

Amelia Earhart tells us what it was like to be the first female to fly across the Atlantic. She took-off five years to the day after Lindbergh's trans...

This clip, from a Discovery-Channel documentary on Amelia Earhart, contains historic footage of Earhart's last flight.

How did Beowulf, a story based on Scandinavian characters, become Britain's national epic?

This animation - created by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) - demonstrates what happened on October 11, 2006 when Cory Lidle and his f...

On the 15th of March, 1962, five research groups announced the discovery of anti-matter. What is anti-matter? Can scientists create it? Learn more in...

In this enhanced, high-definition version of NASA's original video, we see Buzz Aldrin - the second man to step foot on the Moon - descend from the LE...

In July of 1969, Apollo 11's trip to the Moon has many highlights including Armstrong and Aldrin's walks on the lunar surface and their successful ret...

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