This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...
In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy work...
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King...
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying ...
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually riva...
In 1895, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade constructs and flies India's first unmanned plane, despite having th...
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged ...
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation ef...
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Muse...
The city of Edo, the 18th century. Owaka, the daughter of a merchant family, and her childhood frien...
The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...
Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the ...
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched techno...
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American sl...