The subject of the movie Men of Honor, Carl Brashear battled racism to become the U.S. Navy's first Black master diver — even after losing one of his legs.Disaster struck on March 23, 1966. Two Air Force planes collided off the coast of Spain, dropping a hydrogen bomb into the ocean. As a Navy recovery team hauled the nuclear bomb up from the bottom of the sea, the towing line broke.

After delivering the components of the Hiroshima bomb in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, leaving nearly 1,000 men adrift in the middle of the Philippine Sea.When the USS Indianapolis sank on July 30, 1945, it had just covertly delivered parts of the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima. Indeed, the Navy cruiser had a prolific career in the Pacific theater of World War II — until Japanese torpedoes relegated it to the bottom of the ocean in 12 minutes flat.

Experience photos and stories from inside Georgia's Andersonville Prison, one of the most brutal prisoner of war camps in modern history.Andersonville Prison was never meant to hold as many prisoners as it did. During the first years of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers had been toting their Union POWs around with them or dropping them in makeshift camps around the Confederacy. By the last year of the war, however, they’d realized they needed a more secure solution.

A self-described "gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet," Joe Exotic was a charming local legend in Oklahoma — until he got arrested for plotting murder.The life story of Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage is so strange that only a Netflix documentary series could do it justice. The seven-part production followed the self-proclaimed “Tiger King” as he ran his controversial exotic animal park, fought detractors, and cozied up to tigers. The gay, gun-toting Oklahoman resembled a flamboyant cartoon character more than an actual person, let alone somebody who spearheaded an extensive wildlife operation that involved lions, tigers, and cheetahs.

John Africa co-founded the Black activist group MOVE, whose home was bombed by Philadelphia Police in 1985. MOVEJohn Africa in his recognizable dreadlocks and sunglasses. The 1985 MOVE bombing remains one of the most egregious police responses in United States history. Frustrated by the militant Black liberation group and its refusal to evacuate their headquarters, the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on their rowhouse, killing 11 people — including MOVE founder John Africa.