Watch magic on a stick LookMovie. This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
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Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included...
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Berlin, February 27, 1933. The Reichstag is in flames. A young Dutch unemployed man, Marinus van der Lubbe, was found alone in the building. For...
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Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....
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Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...
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This entry in John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series is about the great moments in the lives of famous men who found found an answer or made a great...
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True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
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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...
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For those who heart history and the great city of Chicago, this film will take you through time with a small child and his nervous babysitter. Feel...
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At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...
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In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from...