History Videos

The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment in 1943, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period of time. It is also referred to as Project Rainbow.

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As we've been in a nostalgic kind of mood recently, we decided to create this little movie illustrating the evolution of the mobile phone.You're bound to recognise a few mobile phones from your past as we take you from 1985 to the present day.

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The largest nuclear bomb, the Czar, was built by the Russians as a part of the Cold War race for arms.

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Learn of the seceret origin's of the Smurfts, their name and even their net-worth.

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Nina Kulagina was recruited by Soviet authorities as a telekenetic agent, creating actual energy fields according to some accounts. She was tested in stopping a beating heart - freaky!

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See how a drug originally used in PTS treatments eventually became a symbol of the 1960's psychadelic culture in America.

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Having ignored American demands for surrender, the Japanese were now to experience a new kind of destruction.

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View archived footage of individuals risking their lives in an attempt to flee East Germany for freedom in West Berlin.

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Vesuvius' most early eruption, is now its most famous.

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The financial house of cards collapses and the overinflated stock market plunges into a Great Depression. It started in America, but practically overnight, an economic blizzard grips the world.

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Even men toughened by combat, were sickened by the sight of the horrors of Concentration Camps.

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For centuries, the kings of Spain governed the most powerful stronghold of Catholicism.

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To the Nazis the depression was a source of great satisfaction.

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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, an Allied force led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the greatest amphibious invasion of all time against German defenses on the coast of Normandy, France.

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Japan's answer to the economic blunder of the depression was WAR.

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On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes strike the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II.

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This savage civil war was to drag on for two and a half murderous years.

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First man In Space - Skydiving from the edge of the world

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As the war draws to an end, the United States, headed by President Wilson, emerges as the moral leader of the Western World, and the League of Nations is formed.

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The USA's involvement in Vietnam grew slowly, until the USA found itself with hundreds of casualties.

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