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Age of the Dinosaurs
This clip from "Walking with Dinosaurs" depicts various dinosaurs (including the late-Triassic, plant-eating Plateosaurus which weighed about four tons).  The "Age of the Dinosaurs" is imaginatively depicted in this BBC series narrated by Kenneth Branagh. 
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Alexander the Great - Background in Macedonia
Alexander was a Macedonian prince, the son of Philip  II and his wife Olympias.  In this video clip, from the BBC documentary - In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, hosted by Michael Wood and also aired on PBS - we meet the real Alexander.  Only one image of him as a prince, creat...
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Allied Bombing of Berlin
This historical footage, from Universal Newsreels, depicts the first American bombing of Berlin.  Prepared for viewing by Americans in movie theaters, this March 20, 1944 video includes interviews with flight crew members after their return to England.
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Allied Invasion of Germany - April, 1945
As Allied forces began their invasion of Germany, a Universal News camerman was embedded with the troops.  Capturing unbelievable footage, he put himself at risk and was honored for his efforts.Featured in this newsreel - from the 5th of April, 1945 - are shots of paratroopers landing on German...
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Amazing Grace - by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin performs the song, Amazing Grace, in the film of the same name, released for public viewing in 2007.  This is the music video of that work, which couples Tomlin's performance with clips from the film.  It is online courtesy Bristol Bay Productions.
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Amazing Grace - Horrors of the Middle Passage
NOTICE:  THIS VIDEO RECREATES WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AFRICANS WERE KIDNAPPED FROM THEIR HOMES AND FORCED INTO SLAVERY.  IT IS NOT EASY TO WATCH.  PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Kidnapped Africans, captured as slaves, endured unimaginably horrific conditions aboard ship.  Sent from their ...
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Amazing Grace - Parliament Abolishes the Slave Trade
Trailer of the film, Amazing Grace, which tells the story of one man's determination to overturn an unjust law.  For years, William Wilberforce tried to convince the British Parliament that the slave trade was wrong.  On the 23rd of February, 1807, he finally succeeded when Parliament ove...
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Amazing Grace - The Song and Its Context
The story, and the music, of Amazing Grace as it is often performed today - with bagpipes.
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American Civil War - Beginning and End
Soon after Abraham Lincoln became America’s 16th president, the country split apart when the South seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Days after the South surrendered, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, President Lincoln was assassinated.  He had live...
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American Revolution - Reluctant Revolutionaries
It is 1763, and after more than a century of British rule in the colonies, people in America still consider themselves British.  Their capital is London; their King is George III.  By 1775, just a dozen years later, the colonies are on the brink of rebellion against their King and their c...
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