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A journey from Iran to Turkey via the usual land transportation in our continuous trek zigzagging around the Eurasian peninsula.

Prisoners in Thailand are literally fighting for their freedom, where winning tournaments can give them a chance of an earlier release.

Find out what it is like to be trapped in a country you never wanted to be in in the first place.

On December 14, 2012, a young black high school student named Corey Stingley was aggressively restrained after he tried to shoplift alcohol from a neighborhood store. Three white men held […]

The film industry’s switch to digital projection means that thousands of independent theaters will have to replace their film projectors with new, expensive digital ones.

Take a look at the evolution of the “coming attractions” from simple silent film splices, through the template style of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Follow Ben Best and Andy Zawacki as they maintain the ninety-nine deceased human bodies stored at below-freezing temperatures in cryopreservation.

This journey started tens of thousands of years ago, when humans began to fan out across the planet, following unknown pathways, crossing unmeasured distances.

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the densest place on earth, a virtually lawless labyrinth of crime, grime, commerce and hope.

George Lucas recalls that Star Wars was influenced by pirate and swashbuckling films of the ’40s.

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world’s most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country. However, Johannesburg […]

More than two weeks after it went missing, Malaysian authorities now believe that flight MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean off Australia.

When reporter Michael Altenhenne arrived in Simferopol in early March, Crimea was an autonomous republic in Ukraine. But this changed.