Magic on a Stick

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...

Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

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

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous...

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

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

In 1895, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade constructs and flies India's first unmanned plane, despite having the odds stacked against him.