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  • Civil War Documentaries

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  • The American Artist
    Movie + 4 extras

    The American Artist

    Movie + 4 extras

    A century after his death, George Caleb Bingham’s work was not only rediscovered, it is celebrated as a national treasure. Produced by the Emmy Award-winning documentary team at Wide Awake Films in partnership with the Friends of Arrow Rock (Bingham’s hometown in Missouri), this hour long documen...

  • WW2 Documentaries

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  • Texas Revolution - animated maps

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  • The Siege of Fort William Henry

    Movie

    During the French and Indian War, Fort William Henry was under siege. The French assembled 8,000 men, including more than 1,800 Indians from more than 30 nations. The French artillery bombarded the fort, while their Indian allies ambushed men from the surrounding forests.
    The siege lasted six lon...

  • 2024 Gettysburg Lecture Series

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  • Roots of a Nation - The Smithfield Story

    Movie

    Take a journey through the 250-year history of Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia - from the European immigrants who shaped a nation through their relationships with founding fathers to the enslaved Africans who built it through the work of their hands, “Roots of a Nation” is an honest...

  • A History of the Greatest Losses of Life

    There have been an incredible number of wars, genocides, conquests and natural disasters that have killed a staggering number of people throughout human history. Conquests and genocides can often be accompanied by disease and starvation and number of fatalities can be difficult to ascertain. Ther...

  • Floating Horses
    Movie + 1 extra

    Floating Horses

    Movie + 1 extra

    American cowboy Casey Tibbs, a nine-time world champion who left home at the age of 13 in 1942 due to his father's disdain of rodeo, had a rags-to-riches life after his groundbreaking spurring lick was developed and he was launched to stardom. Akin to riding a wild bronc in competition, his unpre...

  • Apollo Program

    1 season

  • The Wide Awakes

    Watch to learn the history of the Wide Awakes and find out who started them, what was their purpose, who would be a typical member, and why the torches! Thank you to the Waterloo Area Historical Society in Michigan for providing an amazing setting at twilight.

  • Making History Documentaries

    History is never as simple as the stories we're told. In this video, we talk about the process of researching history — and why finding the truth is often harder than it seems. History is written by the victors, but what happens to the stories from the losing side? Propaganda, simplified narrativ...

  • The Monster Gun of the Crimean War

    The story of a 'superweapon' designed to break the stalemate of siege warfare in the Crimea using all the industrial might Victorian Britain had to offer. This massive 36in mortar could fire a 2900lb shell nearly two miles - built in 1854 as a Crimean War superweapon by Robert Mallet, an Irish g...

  • The Origin of Brainwashing

    The concept of brainwashing is often discussed, but rarely understood. Originating from the Chinese term Xinao, which literally means ‘wash brain’, the word first entered circulation in the west in the 1950s. However, to this day, few understand the origins of brainwashing, and to what purpose it...

  • The Man Who Saved the World - Vasili Arkhipov

    During the Cold War, high tensions between east and west resulted in many close calls. Some of these close calls involved nuclear weapons, and given the tense atmosphere, any mistake would have likely resulted in global war.
    Among all of these stories is one which stands out both for its extremel...

  • 5 Great Viking Deaths

  • Hex Hollow

    Movie

    A documentary film investigating the 1928 murder of a Pennsylvania farmer and the allegations of witchcraft that shocked the nation.

  • The Man Who Exposed the Soviet Union

    Throughout the latter half of the 19th century, there was a strong temptation toward communism in the West. And this persisted through the first half of the 20th Century, even as evidence grew of the huge failures within the Soviet Union and China. Despite the damning evidence from communist stat...

  • The French and Indian War Legacy

    The French and Indian War lasted from 1754-1763. This conflict between the British colonies in North America, and the French colony in Canada changed the imperial makeup of the continent. The most obvious outcome of this war was the expulsion of France from Canada, but many events that followed c...

  • Heavy Artillery in the Civil War

    Learn about the heavy guns of the Civil War and the artillerymen than manned them. Civil War artillery includes everything from mortars and siege guns to rifled cannons and Columbiads. Learn about the heavy artillery, the logistics behind them, and also hear about the "red-legged infantry" regim...

  • The Irish Brigade at Gettysburg - Is the real Wolfhound Extinct?

  • The Gemini Project

    Take your study of science, engineering and history to the pioneers of America’s space race. Learn from engineers who designed and built the Gemini capsule and the space systems that made it work. Hear how the Gemini program made the successes of the Apollo program possible.

  • If This Valley is Lost

  • Blackbeard: The True Story