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.
This much-discussed round, of a highly praised fight, pits Arturo Gatti against Micky Ward.
Princip carries a .22 caliber Browning pistol as he and his gang members plot to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip tries to commit suicide, after his fatal shooting of the Archduke and his wife, but the cyanide in the capsule he swallows is old, hen...
Jesse James was a legend during his own lifetime.
The spark of WWI occurs on June 28, 1914 when Gavrilo Princip assassinates the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife in Sarajevo. This is t...
The U.S. National Archives sponsored a discussion on whether Mary Surratt was guilty of anything as an alleged Lincoln-assassination conspirator.
This clip is the actual FAA Air Traffic Control transmission from ATC Cleveland Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Was there once a city called Atlantis which disappeared into the sea?
In 1951, the U.S. government commissioned a movie which explains the dangers of atomic warfare and its aftermath.
In the fifth century BC, a Greek philosopher named Democritus theorized that the smallest particle in nature was an atom.
It might be possible to get sea-sick just watching this clip fromOceans, a French documentary by Jacques Perrin.
It might be possible to get sea-sick just watching this clip from Oceans, a French documentary by Jacques Perrin.
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