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.
On the evening of October 8, 1871 a spark set Chicago ablaze. Learn what made it such an at risk city.
London was devastated by the Great Fire of 1666, which began - in Pudding Lane - on September 2.
Thousands of years ago, the Great Library at Alexandria was "the world's first major seat of learning." Some historians consider it "the birthpl...
Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...
"Gulag" tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist age.
In this fictional setting, at Jurassic World, scientists working in the "Hammond Creation Lab" follow a detailed process to produce new dinosaur attra...
Hannah More opposed slavery and the slave trade. She fought hard with people like Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, John Newton and many others to...
This film depicts Colonel Hans Landa as a Jew Hunter. Although the film is not entirely historically based, during WWII there was a real SS "Jew Hunte...
As the flames moved up, from the circus tent's untreated sidewall, they found the big top's roof with its treated layer of paraffin and gasoline. A d...
Helen Keller first realized the meaning of words when her teacher (Annie Sullivan) spelled “water” (w-a-t-e-r) in her hand on the 5th of April, 18...
When twenty of the shipwrecked crew of the Essex arrive at Henderson Island, three decide to stay. They had previously discovered a cave on the island...
In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...
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