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.

After they've been called into battle by the warlord Ordgar, Tofi and his friend Leofric receive frightening news.  Now their country is being ...

  What would it have been like for Britain's foot soldiers to fight in the Battle of Hastings, during 1066?  Before we can answer that que...

In this historic footage, from the U.

This historic footage, from the U.

Historians tell us that the Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest in history.

By the time the war in Europe ended, in May of 1945, German U-boats had sent approximately 3,500 merchant vessels to the bottom of the sea - 2,452 in ...

On December 16, 1944 Americans in the Ardennes Forest were surprised when Hitler's forces launched a major offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge.

On the 25th of June, 1876 - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn - a group of American immigrants were fighting against a group of Native Americans. Bo...

NOTE: THIS VIDEO CLIP DEPICTS RECREATIONS OF A VICIOUS CIVIL-WAR BATTLE IN WHICH MANY UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS DIED OR WERE GRAVELY WOUNDED.

French soldiers, in a mass grave, had died of starvation and hypothermia as they returned from the Russian campaign.

NOTE: THIS CLIP CONTAINS RECREATIONS OF BATTLE SCENES AND SKELETONS IN A MASS GRAVE.

Napoleon needed to attack the Allied army, under Wellington's command, before the Prussians arrived.

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