Film Documents

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 image depicts the signature page of a letter dated September 25, 1888.  Purportedly from the person who'd murdered victims in the Whitechap...

Bookcover image of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy (Oxford World's Classics Series, by J.M. Barrie,  Peter Hollingdale (edito...

When he represented the Amistad captives in the U.S. Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams personally handwrote his briefs.  This image depicts one of...

This image depicts the box cover of "Jurassic Park," a film by Steven Spielberg.

VHS Boxcover image for the movie Khartoum.

After Xerxes demanded that Leonidas and his men give up their arms, the Spartan king roared:  "Molon Labe" (mo-lone lah-veh)! Translated into Eng...

Image of a 1966 movie poster for Khartoum, copyright United Artists, all rights reserved. 

Virginia Woolf begins her story, Mrs. Dalloway, in a very unusual style (for the time).  This image depicts the beginning of her novel.  Cl...

566 CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK[1095] TESTIMONY OF LT. COL KERMIT A. TYLER, AIR CORPS, ORLANDO, FLA., ARMY AIR FORCE BOARD(The wit...

Black Hawk Down was produced and distributed, in 2001, by Columbia Pictures.  It had a budget of $95 million and is 144 minutes long. Production ...

Map depicting the location of Saint-Remy-de-Provence, where Vincent spent nearly a year in an asylum.  

Wilberforce's diary, of 1785, reveals that he struggled with the thought of talking with John Newton: 30 November    ...

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