History Videos

The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."

In her book North to Freedom (also known as I am David), Anne Holms sets the stage at a Bulgarian forced labor camp - likely Belene - where children, ...

Within weeks after his marriage to Peggy Shippen, a loyalist, Benedict Arnold contacted the British.

Major General Arnold, commander of American forces at West Point, was on the verge of giving the New York fort to the colonists' adversaries - the Bri...

In 1954, a young Leonard Bernstein makes his first television appearance as he explains (and illustrates) why Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was so revolu...

This clip - from "Great British Railway Journeys" - follows the Victorian-era "Bradshaw's Railway Guide.

In 1949, Dr. Billy Graham traveled by train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.

Johanna took Ludwig back to court after her son, Karl, ran away from Beethoven's home.

In 1822, the London Philharmonic Society commissioned Beethoven to compose a new symphony.

A military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, goes terribly wrong when people on the ground shoot-down two Black Hawk helicopters. Thereafter a street b...

Super 64 - a Black Hawk piloted by CWO3 (Chief Warrant Officer 3) Mike Durant - went down in Mogadishu on the 3rd of October, 1993.

This is the trailer for "Blow," a film which tells the story of George Jung - and how his cocaine-using-selling ways got him into serious trouble (wit...

Iron-Age mummies, naturally formed in peat bogs thousands of years ago, provide evidence of life during ancient times.

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