East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961. This is a photograph of an East German…
It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t…
Three days after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy obliterated Hiroshima, Japan, U.S. forces dropped an even more powerful weapon dubbed Fat Man…
The Hubble Space Telescope almost didn’t make it. Carried aloft in 1990 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, it was over-budget, years behind schedule…
Somewhere in the Sea of Tranquillity, the little depression in which Buzz Aldrin stood on the evening of July 20, 1969, is still…
The terrified young boy with his hands raised at the center of this image was one of nearly half a million Jews packed…
“Come on over, come on over!” (Komm’ rüber!) the West Berlin crowd on Bernauer Strasse chanted. Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph…
There’s no way of knowing how many pictures were taken of Anna Bertha Röntgen, and most are surely lost to history. But one…
It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Japan.…
Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine believed that images of child labor would force citizens to…
It was the invasion to save civilization, and LIFE’s Robert Capa was there, the only still photographer to wade with the 34,250 troops…
Archaeologists have uncovered the skeleton of a warrior in northern Italy from the 6th century who after having his hand amputated, used a…