Wings of Hope is a 2000 made-for-TV documentary directed by Werner Herzog. The film explores the story of Juliane Koepcke, a German Peruvian woman who was the sole survivor of Peruvian flight LANSA Flight 508 following its mid-air disintegration after a lightning strike in 1971.
The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...
Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path...
People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong - a world-class athlete nearly struck down...
These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian...
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography.
Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....