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...

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...

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

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

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...

In 1895, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade constructs and flies India's first unmanned plane, despite having th...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on t...

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched techno...

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

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...

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

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

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

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

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 ...

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