Film Story Briefs

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.

It's the Ides of March, and Julius Caesar receives a warning from the shadows. See an animated version of Shakespeare's famous play.

This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...

This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...

What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?

70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.

Meet Indominus Rex, a lab-created dinosuar hybrid with ferocious tendencies and the DNA of four dinosaurs (including that of one whom paleontologists ...

Jack Swigert, seen here at breakfast on launch-day morning - the 11th of April, 1970 - had replaced Ken Mattingly as Command Module Pilot three days b...

Learn more about the author, James Joyce and his work Ulysses.

Learn about this famous author through the work of Ten Great Writers of the Modern World - James Joyce's Ulysses"

If James Joyce loved his town Dublin so much, why did he leave?

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bront (1816-1855), remains popular even though it was first published in October of 1847.

Charlotte Bront once served as a governess at Stone Grappe Hall.

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