On 1 July 2016, Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106. He is credited with saving the lives of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII.
Captain Jack Tueller recounts the time he played a famous German love song for a lone sniper still at large, two weeks after D-Day. You can read more about Captain Tueller’s incredible story at this CNN article from 2009.
Watch these 1930s daredevils show off their parkour skills in this vintage clip!
The video quality is astonishing. Fascinating HD color video shows the situation of the city in summer 1945, just after the Second World War and the capitulation of Germany. Daily life after years of war. Pictures from the destroyed city, the Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor, Adlon, Führerbunker, Unter den Linden, rubble women working in the…
For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just “a thing that computers do”. But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here’s a quick summary by Tom Scott. If you enjoyed the video above,…
Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during…
Watch photographer Levi Bettwieser of The Rescued Film Project discover and process 31 rolls of film shot by an American WWII soldier over 70 years ago. Bettwieser knows nothing about the person who shot the film or who it belonged to, but these never seen before photos offer a glimpse into the mind of…
Legolas who? Hawkeye what? Meet Lars Andersen, the man who wants to revive the ancient art of battle archery. Watch as he demonstrates his unorthodox technique while completing a wide array of extremely technical tricks and manoeuvres.
Turning down the most successful band in history and rejecting the chance to buy one of the world’s most important inventions are just two of the 10 worst business decisions of all time.
All you need to know is that it involves Bruce Lee.
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