Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
In 1368, as Europeans were enduring the miseries of the Black Death, rulers of Chinas Ming Dynasty began a huge project - a wall, made mostly of stone...
Determined that no foreigner (such as Genghis Khan) would ever rule China again, the Ming rulers fortified Chinas territory.
The Mogadishu Mile, on the 4th of October 1993, was a long run by U.
How did fighter pilots, who became astronauts, prepare to walk on the moon?
Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq became Iran's Prime Minister in 1951. A nationalist, he wasted no time in carrying out his plan to protect his country's...
Believed to be a superpower of ancient Greece, Mycenae was home to King Agamemnon.
On the 9th of August, 1945, a B-29 called Bocks Car dropped a plutonium-239 bomb dubbed Fat Man on the city of Nagasaki.
In this 60 Minutes segment, entitled Mr.
Viewed from above, the ancient Nazca Lines of Peru are stunning.
This film, The Nazis Strike, is part two of the seven-part series Why We Fight. The United States War Department produced it in 1943. U...
Based on archeological findings, experts have concluded that Neanderthals invented a kind of glue made from birch wood.
THIS CLIP DEPICTS THE LIFE OF NERO, A ROMAN EMPEROR, AND CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF REAL PEOPLE AND REAL EVENTS.
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