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.

The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.

On the 1st of May, 1960, Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was a U-2 pilot flying an American spy plane over the Soviet Union.

This historical footage - during which Francois Pienaar discusses Nelson Mandela - sheds light on how the Springboks' captain viewed South Africa's Pr...

After Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man, and Dr.

In the summer of 1964, many white college students - from outside Mississippi - traveled to the Magnolia State to help black students aid African-Amer...

During the summer of 1964, university students from various places in the U.

After Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went missing - following their release from questioning at Sheriff Lawrence Raineys jail - hundreds of people look...

The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud, was still resisting Hitler - on the 12th of June, 1940 - despite significant advances Germany had made into F...

France celebrates "Bastille Day" every July 14th. Learn more about it with this humorous video clip from "Horrible Histories."

The Fukushima Nuclear Plant - one of many similar facilities supplying Japan with electrical power - was impacted by the 8.

An assistant of Thomas Edison filmed this panorama of Galveston's Orphan Home.

Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.

Show tooltips