The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history up to that point, only surpassed by the War in Afghanistan in 2021 lasting six months longer. The war dramatically hurt the reputation of the United States. Today, the Vietnam War is seen as pointless. A big freaking mistake, based on lies, ...

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In this video, The Henry Ford Curators Heather Bruegl (Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee) and Amber N. Mitchell discuss the events that set the stage for the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, the impact of the act itself and how its s...

Director Ford and his regular camera man Joseph August, who had worked on many Hollywood features with Ford, were assigned to Midway Island in 1942 to document, for the Navy, the work of guerrillas and resistance fighters in the Pacific. Two days before the battle of Midway, he learned that the J...

Tunisian Victory (1944) was an Anglo-American film which follows British and American armies from the planning of Operation Torch and Operation Acrobat (the latter subsequently canceled) in summer of 1942 to the liberation of Tunisia in May 1943.
The principal narrator is velvety voiced British a...

Tommy takes us on a deep dive of fighting knives issued to and used by Marines in WWII. In addition to looking at them, he introduces us to some of the men and lets them speak again through voiceover so you hear the words and thoughts of veterans and journalists from the front lines. Come explore...

The Dr. Sullivan Jackson and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Home holds powerful stories of an ordinary family doing extraordinary things in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. In line with the wishes of the Jacksons’ daughter Jawana, the Jackson House has been relocated from Selma, Alabama,...

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Korean War, aka "The Forgotten War," a war his grandfather fought in.

The Pictorial Record of Man’s Conquest of the Colorado River, this program documents the building of the Hoover Dam, one of the engineering marvels of its day, begun in 1931 and completed in 1936. It was the largest dam in the world for many years. It cost 50 million dollars (800 million in today...

The footage is first-rate, taken by hundreds of battle cameramen and expertly edited into a fast-moving account of an immensely complex and dramatic story. There is some narration, principally by Leslie Banks, but the story is told mostly in the words of ordinary soldiers who were there.
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The Spanish Civil War, erupting in July 1936, was a ferocious conflict that claimed over half a million lives and reshaped Spain for decades. For nearly three years, the leftist Second Republic battled a right-wing Nationalist uprising led by General Francisco Franco. More than a domestic strugg...