Law and Politics Videos

What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.

In this video - highlighting Margaret Thatcher's speech to the House of Commons on the 30th of October, 1990 - she explains why she is so opposed to B...

In this clip, from the BBC program "The Downing Street Years," Margaret Thatcher describes why she allowed America to use British bases during a deplo...

This clip, from a BBC documentary on Margaret Thatcher, includes her remarks after the Brighton bombing.

It was huge news - throughout the United Kingdom - when a sitting Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, resigned her position.

Margaret Thatcher remains a polarizing figure.

Meyer Lansky, according to people who knew him, built his "business" on his word.

When the mood of the people turned against Mossadeq, during the 1953 coup, he was arrested and his home was ransacked. This clip, which includes hi...

Joseph Goebbels, in charge of propaganda and enlightenment during Hitlers rule of Germany, wanted movies which told good stories - in addition to film...

Nathan Hale was 21-years-old when the British executed him (in 1776) as a spy.

In occupied Holland, Dutch churches issued a collective protest against the treatment of the country's Jews.

Leni Riefenstahl made this documentary based on the Nazi Party Congress, held in Nuremberg during 1934.

WARNING!!  THIS RACIST FILM WAS CREATED DURING THE REGIME OF ADOLF HITLER TO VILIFY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  A PIECE OF NAZI PROPAGANDA, AND DE...

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