The movie had been on TV for years. No one cared until it became a "classic," and now it's the rage, with restaurants named for it. It was made in black/white and resulted in a murder, Living participants meet in LA and relive the movie no one pai...

When movies were first shown in boxes and on sheets, they were known as "flickers." For 30 years the movies were silent. A newsreel camerman made the first sound-on-film movie, one of the anonymous cameramen who brought reality to the movie palace...

War! In the 1890 streets between publishers. War!Between Spain and the U.S. after the USS Maine blew up. War! Between a young reporter and a music-hall beauty. Yellow journalism was coined as the century turned. The reporter falls on a Cuban hills...

It's 1933. The nation is in Depression. Prohibition is skidding to an end. A New York City lawyer, takes a "collection" assignment on Cape Cod. He's either to find a missing shipment of scotch, or to collect its worth from the locals who for years...

Americans change houses regularly without really knowing the sellers or the buyers. The House: 1916 tells the tale of one house and its inhabitants over the 20th Century. The house is in New Jersey, but it could be in any town in the U.S. Under th...

A little known American Revolutionary War general saved the rebel cause not once, but three times. General John Glover and his Marblehead mariners predate the U.S. Marines, and these soldier-sailors saved General Washington from certain defeat on ...

The time is April 1865 and the place is North Carolina at the end of the Civil War. The heroines are two 12-year old girls: one a white farm girl; and the other a former slave, both on a journey to find the white girl's father, a Confederate soldi...