What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.
Government officials found out that a Catholic agitator was renting the house adjacent to the House of Lords.
Gathering gunpowder became easier when another favorable coincidence presented itself to the conspirators.
Renting a vault under the House of Lords, conspirators stored thirty-six barrels of gunpowder for nefarious purposes.
When she became Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government implemented radical policies to help Britain improve its economic po...
Her accusers know that Joan of Arc is afraid of death by burning at the stake, but they condemn her to this method of execution anyway. This clip depi...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
Thomas Paine - writer of numerous pamphlets during the American Revolution - knew how to put things in perspective.
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African-American to serve as a U.
Although the American Colonies have declared their independence from Britain, General Washington and his men are losing on the battlefields. Then Wash...
In this interview with Errol Morris (of Bravo TV), Tony Mendez relates some of the background of the ARGO "exfiltration" plan he created with Hollywoo...
John Boyne's novel - "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" - is now a major motion picture. This clip presents one of its trailer.
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
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