Civil Rights Videos

Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.

As he considered the best way to deal with South African discrimination, Gandhi developed communities of people from different races and religions.

Following a period of racial tension and riots during 1967, the city of Cleveland erupted in riots between July 23-28, 1968.

In July of 1940, Hitler's goal was to intimidate Britain. Britain's goal was to resist Hitler and to eliminate Germany's bombers which were flying ov...

Paving the way for other activists to integrate Woolworth lunch counters, four African-Americans sat in "whites-only" seats at the Greensboro, North C...

This clip is from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist...

This clip is also from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stal...

This clip is from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist...

NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP IS FROM A DOCUMENTARY ON THE GULAG AND SOVIET-ERA FORCED LABOR CAMPS.

Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."

Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (which is pronounced SAU-an).

Life in the Seam, an extremely poor area of District 12, has always been hard.

70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.

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