Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
As the zeks endure a seemingly endless march, the sounds of their feet on the snow tell us how cold it really is.
The camp makes a profit from the prisoners' work, but nothing is shared with the zeks.
The zeks on Ivan Denisovich's team devour their lunch soup (and sop it up with stale bread saved from an earlier meal).
As the zeks construct their building, disagreements erupt over proper procedures.
It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.
Receiving a package from home is a great event for a prisoner, but every single item in the parcel is inspected by a guard before the prisoner can cla...
Even in the GULAG, men stash their precious belongings.
If the President and the Constitution seem to differ, the Supreme Court decides who will prevail. On two separate days in 1841 - the 24th of February ...
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO INCLUDES SCENES OF FATAL SHOOTINGS ON THE CAMPUS OF KENT STATE UNIVERSITY.
Clarence Darrow, one of America's great trial lawyers, despised the death penalty.
On the 24th of September, 1957, President Eisenhower dispatched paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas.
The inquest (into the murders of Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden) continues while the story of what may have happened (were Lizzie the murdere...
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