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.

After Adolf Hitler's rise, in Germany, he quickly consolidated his power base.

Kristallnacht begins in Germany on the 9th of November, 1938. What was it and why did it begin?

WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS VIOLENT ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN NOVEMBER OF 1938.

WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS VIOLENT ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN NOVEMBER OF 1938.

Great Britain was the only country to widely open its doors to German Jews.

Henry VIII made sure that his son, Edward VI, was educated by Protestants.

In this clip from "The Last Day of World War One," we see a replica of the railway carriage in which the Armistice was signed on the 11th of November,...

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.

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

The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.

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

Show tooltips