LONGFORM

The 1990s noir anthology show put Tom Cruise in the director's chair and made Tom Hanks the bad guy.

The first dramatization of the ‘Titanic’ wreck featured a survivor playing a fictionalized version of herself and a love interest named Jack.

Some believe that tuning our music to 432 Hz rather than 440 will make it sound better—and make us feel better. What gives?

The replica boat ‘Orca II’ was the unsung star of 1975's ‘Jaws.’ But what happened after filming ended was worse than any shark attack.

Geraldo Rivera promised to dig deep in Al Capone’s hotel hideout on Chicago’s South Side back in 1986—here’s the oral history of how it all really went down.

Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.

The cartoon-inspired replica was given away in 1997—and was, as the eventual owner put it, “like living in a Crayola box.”

A Mormon teenager traveling through the American Southwest in the mid-19th century was abducted by Native Americans. Her life was never the same.

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.

Each December, "Baby, It’s Cold Outside"—a ’40s-era American standard that some modern listeners hear as a depiction of sexual misconduct—invites a barrage of controversies, radio bans, and think pieces.

What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.

In 1908, a playboy made a bet he could walk around the world without being identified. Then things got weird.