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.

In this segment of an interview between George Jung (on whom the movie Blow is based) and Ted Demme (the now-deceased director of that film), Jung dis...

As George VI continues to do well in his new position, his brother - the Duke of Windsor (the former Edward VIII) - embarrasses the country with his o...

This is the King's Speech which George VI broadcast to his people in Britain, and throughout the Empire, immediately after Britain's Declaration of Wa...

Not long before he died, King George VI wrote a thank-you letter to Lionel Logue.

As rationing takes hold throughout Britain, the residents of Buckingham Palace also eat food they'd never had before.

George Washington, known as "the father" of America, was born on the 22nd of February, 1732, in the British-owned colony of Virginia.

This is a German newsreel - UFA Ton Woche No.

Historical footage, featured in this U.

This British Newsreel - for the week of May 15, 1940 - tries to put an optimistic spin on events of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and its effo...

The Gestapo derives its name from Geheime Staatspolizei - the secret state police of Nazi Germany.

It is November 19, 1863, and President Lincoln has a very difficult job. He must deliver an address at the Gettysburg battlefield. He speaks words whi...

What is life like in the Gobi Desert?

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