Tragedies and Triumphs Videos

At the beginning, the Tuskegee Airmen were not given much of a chance to participate in war zones (after they finally achieved the right to fly miliar...

As thousands of people escaped the World Trade Center towers, firefighters were on the scene.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a novel about what it was like to be a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp in Siberia's GULAG.

During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.

During late May and early June, of 1940, French, British and Canadian troops were trapped between the English Channel - near Dunkirk - and advancing G...

This Universal Newsreel (really more like a documentary) provides primary-source information on the build-up to D-Day and take us to the initial Norma...

"Operation Shingle" was an Allied mission to land troops at the Anzio Beachhead, in Italy, during January of 1944.

Ruth Paine, who helped Lee Oswald get a job at the Texas School Book Depository, and provided shelter for his wife and two daughters, unwittingly gave...

In this segment of a 60-Minutes investigation into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we learn of concerns about other offshore drilling rigs at work in ...

The Parthenon is a surviving wonder of Ancient Greece.

During the years of the Great Depression, the U.

In this clip, from "Gettysburg," General Longstreet instructs Colonel Alexander and General Pettigrew on the details for an attack which has since bee...