Film Chapters

Since the era of "silent films," moving pictures are an important part of worldwide culture. How did movies get their start? What are the stories behind the movies? Enjoy hundreds of stories in this Collection.

Wallace is given a show trial but he is not allowed a lawyer or to speak on his own behalf.

To man its defenses, Rome builds forts at regular intervals along Hadrian's Wall, and some of them still remain today.

After lying low for a while, Jesus leads a procession into Jerusalem for Passover.

John Rabe, John Magee and Dr. Robert O. Wilson provide eyewitness stories about Japanese killings in Nanjing (Nanking).

Barely sixteen, Jesse participates with William Quantrill and his men in killing citizens of Lawrence Kansas.

Jesse takes part in theCentralia Massacre, in which his group kills or wounds 22 unarmed Union troops.

At 7:53 a.m. the Japanese first attack American planes and then begin to bomb "Battleship Row"; finally at 7:58 a.m., air raid sirens begin.

Flight 77 strikes the Pentagon killing all 70 people onboard and 190 people in the building.

Some German military try to assassinate Hitler, but they are caught and killed. Even though in prison, Bonhoeffer is implicated in the plot

While at "Wolfsschanze" (Wolf's Lair), for a military planning conference, Hitler survives an assassination attempt. Even though he is in prison, Bon...

Having plundered most of the towns and cities in the eastern empire, Attila goes west to Gaul.

Attila and his Huns cause death and destruction in town after town on their westward trek.

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