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.

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

This trailer for the film "300," inspired by the Battle of Thermopylae, tells the story of the Spartans' last stand at the "Hot Gates.

French resistors started an uprising against the German occupation during August of 1944.

What is life like in Iran .

This clip, about how the Great Wall of China was built, explains how the various sections of it were linked together.

Mark Logue - grandson of Lionel Logue and author of a book entitled The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy - takes us behind the sc...

On the 21st of December, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 left Heathrow (in London) headed for New York City.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP FEATURES STORIES OF WITNESSES WHO EXPERIENCED THE TRAGEDY OF LOSS AT LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND.

This 1918 animation, by the famous cartoonist Winsor McCay (1867-1934), depicts the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, a ship of the Cunard Line.

Lusitania had set speed records during her transatlantic crossings.

Macbeth was a real king of the Scots who ruled in the 11th century.

Part 2 of the animated version of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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