This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King...
In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy work...
This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham L...
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relat...
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even p...
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...
A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying ...
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...
For those who heart history and the great city of Chicago, this film will take you through time with...
Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín is a teenager in the 1960s whose dream is to be a mov...
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a s...
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...