World History
Open Culture posted this amazing footage from the Normandy invasion (Operation Overlord). George Stephens, a film maker during the war, made the film with other cameramen hoping to use some of the footage for a documentary. They had a hand-held camera and some 16 mm Kodachrome color film which they used for some of the film. Some of the scenes are amazing.
- Russian Communists Upset With Indiana Jones
Some Russian Communists are unhappy with the new Indiana Jones film. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened in Russia on Thursday. The communist distaste for the film can be seen at a CNN article titled Indiana Jones movie upsets communists....
- Bbc Nation On Film: The Royal Family
BBC Nation on Film: The Royal Family. This is an archive of film clips of the British royal family, including footage of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. The site describes itself, "Meet the Royal Family and celebrate important royal occasions. Watch...
- Cave Paintings, Maybe World'sfirst Cinema
This comes after the unit on pre-history but is still worth watching. French archaeologist and film maker, Mark Azema, put together this clip using paintings from the Caves of Lascaux. Below is a clip from the the radio news show, the World, about Azema's...
- Hindenburg Disaster On Film
I'm not sure if you will use this in your world history class, but this is a sadly fascinating film of the last few minutes of the flight of the Hindenburg and actual footage of it exploding. I found it, on of all places The Fix, which is the...
- Alexander The Great On Snagfilms
Watch more free documentaries Learning.snagfilms.com allows you to see full length world history movies as well as cut and paste portions of them. You can also get parts of each film and embed them on your blog or PowerPoint....
World History
Normandy in Color
Open Culture posted this amazing footage from the Normandy invasion (Operation Overlord). George Stephens, a film maker during the war, made the film with other cameramen hoping to use some of the footage for a documentary. They had a hand-held camera and some 16 mm Kodachrome color film which they used for some of the film. Some of the scenes are amazing.
- Russian Communists Upset With Indiana Jones
Some Russian Communists are unhappy with the new Indiana Jones film. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened in Russia on Thursday. The communist distaste for the film can be seen at a CNN article titled Indiana Jones movie upsets communists....
- Bbc Nation On Film: The Royal Family
BBC Nation on Film: The Royal Family. This is an archive of film clips of the British royal family, including footage of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. The site describes itself, "Meet the Royal Family and celebrate important royal occasions. Watch...
- Cave Paintings, Maybe World'sfirst Cinema
This comes after the unit on pre-history but is still worth watching. French archaeologist and film maker, Mark Azema, put together this clip using paintings from the Caves of Lascaux. Below is a clip from the the radio news show, the World, about Azema's...
- Hindenburg Disaster On Film
I'm not sure if you will use this in your world history class, but this is a sadly fascinating film of the last few minutes of the flight of the Hindenburg and actual footage of it exploding. I found it, on of all places The Fix, which is the...
- Alexander The Great On Snagfilms
Watch more free documentaries Learning.snagfilms.com allows you to see full length world history movies as well as cut and paste portions of them. You can also get parts of each film and embed them on your blog or PowerPoint....