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.

Johanna Beyerinck - 26-year-old wife of the Dutch government's Controller in the district of Katimbang (in southern Sumatra) - didn't want to go to th...

Hiding in his aunt's home, and repeatedly making phone calls to his son, Pablo Escobar misses his family. That loneliness is about to get him killed.

These are the Morse-code transmissions which then-corporal Irving Strobing sent during the hours before Corregidor fell to the Japanese on May 6, 1942...

In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.

Two weeks before LBJ announced he would not seek his partys nomination for another term as President, Bobby Kennedy announced that he would run.

On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.

During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...

Not long after it was first possible to record the human voice (in an understandable way), the Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, addressed soldiers of th...

During the first decade of the twentieth century, political unrest threatened the fabric of Russian society.

This film is widely considered Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece.  It depicts the Olympics, held in Berlin during the summer of 1936, and opens wi...

Clarence Darrow, one of America's great trial lawyers, despised the death penalty.

Lewis and Clark remained friends until the end.

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