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Our understanding of our bodies and minds improves with every passing year. There are still many unanswered questions, and too many seemingly insurmountable medical challenges for comfort, but at least science is pointed towards answers. In decades and centuries past, illness both physical and mental was often treated in ineffective, inhumane and often destructive ways in old insane asylums. People with psychological conditions, especially, tended to be viewed as subhuman. These unfortunate souls were born in the wrong era, and their stories are heartbreaking.

Have you ever wondered how your voice can travel thousands of kilometres, instantaneously? The transmission of speech long predates Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone of 1876, as makeshift instruments such as pipes or cones were used to project a voice over greater distance. But the telephone as we know it was a more ambitious device; it sought connection across towns, continents and oceans.

An in-depth look at imperial Rome reconstructed by a team of experts. 0:00 Introduction 0:23 Colosseum to Capitoline 3:21 Arch of Constantine, Meta Sudans, Colossus, Colosseum 4:33 Circus Maximus, Palatine hill 6:13 Colosseum, Temple of Claudius 7:16 Baths of Caracalla 7:55 Column of Trajan, Imperial Fora 8:37 Campus Martius: Pantheon, Mausoleum of Augustus, Theater of Marcellus 10:05 Plan of Ancient Rome in the time of Constantine- overview

Caution: May Contain Graphic Material This is a film on conditions found in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Belgium by advancing Allied Armies during World War II. Consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and tortue.

Maj. Gen. John A. Samford's Statement on "Flying Saucers", Pentagon, Washington, DC, 07/31/1952

Newly-digitized 70mm motion picture footage recorded by NASA and discovered at the National Archives plays a major role in the IMAX documentary "Apollo 11." The story behind the digitization and preservation partnership is told here: https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/apollo-11-footage-debuts-in-new-documentary

A rare interview with J Robert Oppenheimer -- the father of the atomic bomb.

This is an archival footage of the Battle of Aachen during the Second World War between 2–21 October 1944. The Battle of Aachen was a combat action of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany. The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr Basin. Although most of Aachen's civilian population was evacuated before the battle began, much of the city was destroyed and both sides suffered heavy losses. It was one of the largest urban battles fought by U.S. forces in World War II, and the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies. The battle ended with a German surrender, but their tenacious defense significantly disrupted Allied plans for the advance into Germany.

This is an archival footage of D-Day during the Second World War on June 6, 1944. D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World War II. France at the time was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, and the amphibious assault—codenamed Operation Overlord—landed some 156,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy by the end of the day. Despite their success, some 4,000 Allied troops were killed by German soldiers defending the beaches. At the time, the D-Day invasion was the largest naval, air and land operation in history, and within a few days about 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed. By August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and in spring of 1945 the Allies had defeated the Germans. Historians often refer to D-Day as the beginning of the end of World War II.