Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.
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They came from beyond space (1967, 85 min.): Aliens have come to earth intent on exploiting mankind to save their own dying race. One by one the extra-terrestrials take over earthling bodies, turning the world into a land of wandering humanoids.
Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), who grabs Hobbes' hand and sings The Rolling Stones' "Time...
Blundering their way through a hitch in the Foreign Legion, Laurel and Hardy manage to get involved in a series of hair-raising adventures while trying to straighten out a tangled love affair between a young officer and his fiancée.
African-American journalist and activist Ida B. Wells played a major role in shedding light on the widespread practice of lynching in the United States. In this gripping account, Wells details the riots that erupted in New Orleans in 1900 following the death of a white police off...
"Organized chronologically from Antiquity to modern times and beyond, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the credulity and absurdity of humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life--religion, politics, science, economy, culture, a...