History Archives

Before the moving image, there was … the slightly slower moving image.

Here’s lookin’ at you, beautiful final shots.

What connects ‘Nightcrawler,’ ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ and ‘The Naked City’? One 1930s crime scene photographer.

Yoruba Richen’s documentary ‘The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show’ revisits a mostly lost but never forgotten week of television.

Nobody knows what happens next, but here’s what happened last time.

Learn all about the history that inspired Sam Mendes’ World War I film.

The series will investigate a spate of child murders that took place between 1979 and 1981.

Before she inspired a hit horror franchise, Annabelle was just another Raggedy Ann doll possessed by a dead girl.

Learn all about the real people and events that inspired the acclaimed HBO series.