Life imitated art Tuesday morning in midtown Manhattan when a pipe bomb exploded in front of a studio owned by “Sopranos” star Michael Imperioli. The incident seemed like a scene right out of the HBO mob series. Several...

After being denied permission by the DAR to sing at Constitution Hall, Marian Anderson memorably performed "My Country Tis of Thee" at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 before a live crowd of more than 75,000 and a radio audience...

The ominous juxtaposition of a young girl picking petals off a daisy and a nuclear explosion made for one of the most memorable ads in U.S. political history.

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in August 1997 jolted Britain, unleashing an unprecedented outpouring of sorrow. The broadcast of Elton John's performance of "Candle in the Wind" at her funeral showed hundreds of...

On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the beginning of the People's Republic of China, saying, "The Chinese people stand on their own feet from now on."

The first war of the YouTube era, Operation Iraqi Freedom has produced amateur videos like this one, of a team of American snipers battling insurgents in Baghdad.

The allied bombing of Baghdad took place live on international TV in 2003. Here's the CNN footage of the first night of the war.

Original film footage of the explosion and crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg in 1937.

Footage of President Bush learning of the 9/11 attacks while visiting a Florida classroom has been reviewed over and over--was he shocked? Why didn't he leave the classroom? Some said he did the right thing, while others...

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was one of the first natural disasters of the film era, and Thomas Edison produced this segment about the aftermath of the quake for one of his newsreels.

Rodney King's beating in 1991 was captured on video, setting off the worst riots in Los Angeles since Watts in the 1960s.

This snippet of film from the funeral procession of Queen Victoria in 1901 may be grainy, but it's some of the earliest news footage out there. It was made four years before the first movie theater opened in America.

By the time the second plane hit, video cameras were trained on the World Trade Center towers from all different angles.

Jules Naudet captured the only footage of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the March on Washington has gone down as one of the finest, most important pieces of oratory in American history. It wasn't original--he had given a similar speech in Detroit--but it was...