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 Iranian Hostage Crisis began on the 4th of November, 1979.

ARGO is a film loosely based on the story of six Americans who were not captured, in Tehran, during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC SCENES OF WAR AND DEPICTS FACIAL WAR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY SOLDIERS.

This much-discussed round, of a highly praised fight, pits Arturo Gatti against Micky Ward.

On the 14th of April, 1865, President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington.  Earlier that day, John Wilkes...

Gavrilo Princip tries to commit suicide, after his fatal shooting of the Archduke and his wife, but the cyanide in the capsule he swallows is old, hen...

The U.S. National Archives sponsored a discussion on whether Mary Surratt was guilty of anything as an alleged Lincoln-assassination conspirator.

Was there once a city called Atlantis which disappeared into the sea?

In 1951, the U.S. government commissioned a movie which explains the dangers of atomic warfare and its aftermath.

This clip from The Atom Strikes!

By mid-July, of 1945, a new weapon (being developed, in secret, by the "Manhattan Project") was ready for testing.

This clip, from a Universal Newsreel, combines Japanese and American historical footage of the Pearl Harbor attack.

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