World History Videos

Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.

James O'Donnell's book The Bunker is about the last days of the Third Reichbased on extensive eyewitness interviews and documents.

NOTICE: THIS VIDEO INCLUDES SCENES OF FATAL SHOOTINGS AND OTHER SIMILAR INCIDENTS FROM WORLD WAR II.

Sir David Attenborough explains how icebergs form when glaciers calve.

70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.

In 1998, the Catholic Church opened the archive of the Holy Office of the Inquisition for a limited review.

To root-out perceived heresy, the Catholic Church began its first Inquisition (especially against Waldensians in southern France) around 1184.

"Invictus," by William Ernest Henley (18491903), is here recited by Sir Alan Bates (now deceased).

The Romanov family was executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. It has since been razed, on orders of Boris Yeltsin.

Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family were executed late in the evening of July 16, 1918 at the Ipatiev House.

For nearly 100 years, Iran (formerly known as "Persia") has been at odds with "The West" over control of its own energy sources - first with oil, th...

While Iran was in a weakened economic position, due to an embargo imposed on it by the West, Iraq invaded its neighbor.

Six days after Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, ABC News broadcast a special report on the events.  An eyewitness explains ...

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