Social Studies Videos

How do we make a "sound judgment" in a culturally diverse society? How do we know the best path to follow in an interdependent world? These stories, based on social-studies, help us to understand that personal and environmental relationships impact our lives and our world.

This clip, from "Delta Force: Tier 1," includes interviews with some of the men who were part of the mission which the world knows as "Black Hawk Down...

A military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, goes terribly wrong when people on the ground shoot-down two Black Hawk helicopters. Thereafter a street b...

Super 64 - a Black Hawk piloted by CWO3 (Chief Warrant Officer 3) Mike Durant - went down in Mogadishu on the 3rd of October, 1993.

Soldiers and sailors at Kronstadt, on an island off St Petersburg (called Petrograd at the time), were growing agitated as the Great War continued to ...

This is the trailer for "Blow," a film which tells the story of George Jung - and how his cocaine-using-selling ways got him into serious trouble (wit...

Near the source of the Blue Nile, people still use boats, made of papyrus reeds, which are based on an ancient design.

While he was still Attorney General, during his brothers administration, Bobby Kennedy told journalists that an African-American could be president of...

This is the trailer for "Bobby," a film about the assassination of Senator Kennedy by Emilio Estevez.

After Medgar Evers was murdered, in his own driveway, Bob Dylan wrote a song commemorating the civil-rights leader.

When he was just twenty years old, Bob Dylan wrote a song about "The Death of Emmett Till.

During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...

Iron-Age mummies, naturally formed in peat bogs thousands of years ago, provide evidence of life during ancient times.

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