Magic on a Stick

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philip...

This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneeri...

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help desig...

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigran...

This short film focuses on the mysterious and legendary Seri Indians who live in a utopian colony of...

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...

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

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of...

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspir...

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relat...

In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying...

This entry in John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series is about the great moments in the lives of famo...

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking han...

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...