Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...

In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in...

Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín is a teenager in the 1960s whose dream is to be a movie director, but...

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

For those who heart history and the great city of Chicago, this film will take you through time with a small child and his nervous babysitter. Feel...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a...

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a...

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the...

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league...

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of...

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world...

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.