This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

The Great Kantō Earthquake is said to be the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan. When di...

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl ...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a s...

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually riva...

Shows how important luck can be in a person's life.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout ...

Kherson, Ukraine's embattled city, has endured invasion, occupation, and liberation. On February 24,...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American sl...

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged ...

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Muse...

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relation...

In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy work...