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.

"Britain's hour of weakness is Europe's hour of danger," Churchill warns the country.

With information leaked to him from the Foreign Office, Winston confronts the Commons with "facts and figures" regarding the build-up of arms in Germa...

As Clementine (whom Churchill had married in September of 1908) leaves on a four-month expedition, Winston settles-in for a period of ever-more concen...

People like Stanley Baldwin (then Prime Minister) completely disagree with Churchill's concerns about Germany, but other individuals begin to slowly c...

NOTE: THIS CLIP OF "THE GATHERING STORM" CONTAINS LANGUAGE WHICH DESCRIBES CHURCHILL'S CONCERNS ABOUT VARIOUS ISSUES.

As war with Germany seems inevitable, Ralph Wigram dies (in December of 1936).

On the 26th of December, 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the American Congress.

This historical footage, from the 1930s, depicts what it was like to set-up a traveling circus.

Small towns, as well as large cities, welcomed the circus as animals and performers paraded through the streets.

Part 2 of Stefan Sharff's documentary on the Selma-to-Montgomery civil-rights march.

With a federal court order allowing their peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery, civil-rights activists - led by Dr.

One of Australia's most popular writers - before he died in 1938 - was given a very long name at birth: Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

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