In 1925 Eve Adams opened a small tearoom in Greenwich Village where lesbian women could gather openly. She also wrote one of the earliest books about lesbian life in America. Within a year she was arrested and deported. In 1943 she was murdered in Auschwitz.

For nearly 30 years after World War II ended, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda continued fighting in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines. Convinced the war had not ended, he finally surrendered in March 1974 after receiving a direct order from his former commander.

Before making Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone spent months watching classic Westerns and rebuilding the genre from memory. The result was a slow, mythic film about the end of the frontier. Here is the remarkable story behind its making.