Government Videos

Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.

WARNING: THIS CLIP IS PART 5 FROM A DOCUMENTARY INTRODUCED DURING THE NUREMBERG WAR-CRIMES TRIAL IN 1945.

WARNING: THIS CLIP IS PART 6 FROM A DOCUMENTARY INTRODUCED DURING THE NUREMBERG WAR-CRIMES TRIAL IN 1945.

WARNING: THIS CLIP IS PART 7 FROM A DOCUMENTARY INTRODUCED DURING THE NUREMBERG WAR-CRIMES TRIAL IN 1945.

On the 1st of October, 1946, eleven high-ranking Nazis were convicted of war crimes and were sentenced to hang later that month.

As the Kronstadt sailors stormed the Winter Palace, appropriating its considerable wine collection along the way, Lenin was consolidating his power ba...

In 1951, the Shah of Iran appointed Dr. Mossadeq - a popular politician who was elected by people in Tehran to serve as their parliamentary represen...

Peter the Great ruled Russia with absolute power.

Peter the Great achieved one of his most significant dreams - the building of a great capital with access to the sea - when he created a city out of s...

While America occupied Japan, after the end of World War II, The Philippines became an independent country.

When Bobby Kennedy made the deal his brother, President Kennedy, authorized him to make, the Soviets were unaware of one major point.

So many people were upset about the "Community Charge" - more popularly known as the "Poll Tax" - that riots erupted throughout Britain.

After many long years of war, and the deaths of many people, Richard Nixon announces a Peace Accord to end the Vietnam War

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