TV Stories

In the autumn of 1904, deep inside the Oquirrh Mountains of Utah, a copper mining crew drove a pickaxe into the ore at the end of a 900-foot tunnel.

The tool struck something that was not rock, not c…

They wanted to look unstoppable.

What they looked like was a Broadway cast dressed by a fascist IKEA catalog.

From velvet capes to parade swords in the age of tanks, these were the fashion choices s…

In 1962, the Vatican called Elizabeth Taylor a woman of ‘erotic vagrancy’ and demanded her children be taken away.

Her crime? Falling for the wrong co-star on the wrong movie set.

But Taylor wasn’t …

In the autumn of 1875, the bustling streets of Whitechapel held a secret so gruesome it would etch itself into the annals of British criminal history.

A young woman had vanished without a trace, and …

What does it take to keep love alive under the relentless glare of Hollywood’s spotlight? For the television icons who ruled the small screen from the 1960s to the 1980s, the answer is as varied as th…

On the night of November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald—the largest freighter on the Great Lakes—vanished without a trace.

In the decades since, the question has haunted mariners and historians a…

Dr.

Sarah Mitchell had spent years studying the past, but nothing prepared her for the moment she found evil staring back at her from a dusty antique shop shelf.

The photograph was ordinary at first…

They were the faces that lit up the silver screen, the idols who defined glamour and grace.

But behind the dazzling smiles and perfectly crafted public images, some of Hollywood’s greatest stars were…

Master Sergeant Cole Marsh had spent twenty years believing he was the best.

Then he climbed onto a shoulder of Afghan rock and learned he was wrong.
In late August 2008, Marsh and his eight-man snip…