Martin Luther King - They Were the Heroes (Song) | Horrible Histories
Martin Luther King on the struggle to earn racial equality in America and the many famous faces that he...
Rosa Parks - I Sat on a Bus (Song) | Horrible Histories
Rosa Parks shares about how she helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, all by sitting on a bus!
Non-violent success | Face to Face
Martin Luther King speaks to the success of non-violent protest.
Living in the USA | Face to Face
Martin Luther King explains why he doesn't move to a less discriminatory country and why it is important that he fights for equality in the US.
Non-violence | Face to Face
Martin Luther King talks about the importance of non-violent protest in the civil rights movement.
Fear and leadership | Face to Face
Martin Luther King reflects on the difficult times he faced being a leader and symbol of the civil rights movement.
Token integration | Face to Face
Martin Luther King reflects on the lawful change he has witnessed with regard to integration.
Rosa Parks | Face to Face
Martin Luther King tells the story of Rosa Parks, the ''Bus Boycott'' and how this lead to his rise a civil rights leader.
Segregation and violence | Face to Face
Martin Luther King speaks of his experiences of segregation and violence as a child.
Colour discrimination | Face to Face
Martin Luther King recalls his first instance of being discriminated for his race at the age of six.
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, speaking to the people who organis...
Martin Luther King: American Prophet
Since his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King has become known as a champion of freedom. Oona King goes on a journey through the D...
American toilet paper | Horrible Histories
A businessman is drafted into the war toilets and finds out what Americans did to their toilet paper in the war.
Episode 11 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
From humble beginnings, Hollywood became the world’s leading multi-billion dollar industry of glitz, glamour, money and fam...
Episode 10 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...
Episode 7 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
America lead the world in industrial innovation in the early 20th century.
Episode 5 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at America in the 1960s - a decade of revolution that delivers the modern America we recognise today - in colour for ...
Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...
4: John F. Kennedy | Secrets of Leadership
Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him through his understanding that the key to power l...
3: Martin Luther King | Secrets of Leadership
Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pro...
5: The Reagan Legacy | Wheeler on America
Charles Wheeler explores the social impact of Reaganism on today's America.
4: Drugs and Punishment | Wheeler on America
Charles Wheeler looks at population growth in prisons and asks are penalties for drug offences too harsh?
3: America's Long March | Wheeler on America
Charles Wheeler looks at disappointed hopes of black America from LBJ's 1965 Voting Rights Act to radicalism of Louis FARRAKHAN.
2: A Great Society? | Wheeler on America
Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor pp...
3: Supremacy | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley reveals the myths and deceptions in the story of America following the United States' emergence...
4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000
Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.
3: Globalisation | World 2000
What is globalisation and how does it affect us?
S3E1: The Execution of the Rosenbergs | Days That Shook the World
This program covers the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage in 1953.
S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...
S2E1: Challenger Disaster | Days That Shook the World
Documentaries examining famous air disasters, including the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986.
S1E12: Donald Campbell | Days That Shook the World
The program follows Donald Campbell's fatal attempt to become the fastest man on water on January 4, 1967.
S1E12: Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager | Days That Shook the World
The program follows Chuck Yeager's first supersonic flight on October 14, 1947, and Donald Campbell's fata...
Mayflower cruises | Horrible Histories
The one-way journey of a lifetime abroad the Mayflower (advertisement).
Puritans and the Mayflower | Horrible Histories
Puritans set sail to the New World on the Mayflower after the first boat sinks.
Birth of America (Trailer) | Horrible Histories
A HH movie trailer entitled, America: Who Really Discovered the Continent?
3: Deserts | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonoran...
2: Great Plains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of ...
1: Mountains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - c...
4: The Line | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
A drama-documentary about how two corporate giants raced to link the east and west coasts of America by rail.
3: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities
Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.
3: The Gunfight at OK Coral | The Wild West
Drama-documentary after the famous shoot-out, Wyatt Earp was charged with murder and put on trial. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guilt...
2: Billy the Kid | The Wild West
Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by th...
1: Custer's Last Stand | The Wild West
Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry attacke...
3: The Dry Crusade | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America
Examining the very beginnings of Prohibition from early colonial roots andnd the settlers of Kansas to the fo...
Scotland and the Klan
Documentary in which Neil Oliver explores the possible links between racism in America's Deep South and the Scottish settlers that first occupied it.
Seven Journeys In The American West | Secondary Schools
The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...
Gold and Boomtowns | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
As interest in gold mining grew, small towns and gold mining businesses developed almost overnight. Ray explore...
The Donner Party | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of Pioneers who chose some poor routes through the Sierra Nevada...
The Gold Rush | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray details the discovery of gold and why its influence drew so many West across America.
Pioneer routes | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray maps out the common routes of the Pioneers as they met and left the Rocky Mountains.
Pioneer Mountain Men | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray speaks to a modern day Mountain Man about what life was like for the Pioneers who tried to earn money off...
The Cherokee | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears
Ray tells of the Pioneers who first encountered Native American's and while most meetings ended in clashes, the Chero...
Liverpool and the American Civil War | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates Liverpool's connection with the American Civil War, through the story of a resident of...
2: The American Civil War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley shows how the history of the American Civil War has been retold over time, in movi...
0: Learning Zone | Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew Marr presents a selection of stories from his History of the World, specially rewritten for key stage 3 pupils. ...
Martin Luther King | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explores Martin Luther King's influence on the civil rights act.
Gone With the Wind | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy examines the troublesome themes within America's hugely successful civil war film, ''Gone With th...
The Klu Klux Klan | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy details the origins of the white supremacist group, the Klu Klux Klan, and how one film made by th...
Share-cropping | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Upon the abolition of slavery, races were largely segregated. Former slaves had no money to buy land, so w...
Lincoln's racial views | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy finds out about Frederick Douglass, an emancipated former slave-turned politician who spoke ...
Emancipation Proclamation | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
While there was truth to Lincoln ''freeing the slaves'', some confederate states on the borders...
Origins of the Civil War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explains the events and discrepancies that lead to the beginning of the American Civil War ...
Episode 9 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...
Episode 8 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.
Episode 3 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at America in the 1940s - the decade that transforms the nation - using rare archive footage seen in colour for the f...
Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
A look at 1930s America using rare and unseen footage and in colour for the first time.
Episode 1 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour
Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.
5: Roosevelt and the New Deal | Twentieth Century History
President F.D. Roosevelt attempted to solve America's economic problems in the 1930s with the New Deal. With the he...
3: Boom and Bust | Twentieth Century History
History programme for schools narrated by John Tidmarsh. Today's programme looks at the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United S...
S3E3: Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds | Days That Shook the World
How a 1938 radio production of ''The War of the Worlds'' caused panic in the United States.
S3E2: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | Days That Shook the World
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
5: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.
7: Hoover Dam | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Over one hundred people died when Frank Crowe tried to tame the Colorado River by building the Hoover Dam.
8: 1929: Breadline | People's Century
The economic boom of the roaring twenties comes to a sudden halt in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. In the years after a demo...
7: 1927: Great Escape | People's Century
The cinema excites, inspires and influences people seeking escape from their usually dull lives. Hollywood booms in the 1920s, and i...
6: 1924: On the Line | People's Century
Henry Ford uses Taylorism, division of labour and the assembly line to manufacture automobiles, and other industries in the United St...
S3E2: Rule of the Gun | Days That Shook the World
Gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881 and the St Valentine Days Massacre in 1929.
1: The Roaring Twenties | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America
Ed Asner narrates a documentary examining the effects of Prohibition in America in the 1920s and 30s. Th...
9: Crime and Prohibition | Time to Remember
Material from the 50s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded gangsters ...
American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941 | History File
A history of America, 1917-1941, through the eyes of a variety of characters from the era.
Founding Fathers | Horrible Histories
Together they bring a new constitution, a new system of government, and an epic pop ballad!
Declaration of Independence | Horrible Histories
Writing his Declaration of Independence, things get awkward between Thomas Jefferson and his slaves.
Boston Tea Party | Horrible Histories
GameTube: Zack Septic-Tank plays through the Boston Tea Party and starts a war (parody of Jacksepticeye).
Patriots vs Loyalists | Horrible Histories
The Americans are revolting against the English, wanting their land back to themselves, but with an army of farmers and help from ...
S3E5: Let Freedom Ring: The Boston Tea Party | Days That Shook the World
The story of the Boston Tea Party.
Hamilton The Musical | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy speaks to a historian about why despite Hamilton's much lauded reception, it could be in danger...
The Liberty Bell | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
The Liberty Bell's history is actually shrouded in fiction, and comes from a story by the most popular a...
French coalition | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
July 4th 1776 may have been ''independence day'', however battles continued where the Americans received...
The Declaration of Independence | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy introduces the Declaration, its compromises and the different drafts it went through...
Concord and the 2nd Amendment | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy examines the facts behind the mythologised tale of the Patriot militia who defeated th...
Paul Revere | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explores the different versions of Paul Revere's iconic tale of riding into the night to warn the Patri...
The American Revolution | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy gives a short summary of the American Revolution which is generally accepted historically.
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