History viewed through the eyes of Hollywood, and even well-meaning historians, is rarely 100% accurate. However, history-based dramas, documentaries and news programs are valuable ways to gain insight in historical subjects.
Native American
- Buffalo Dance
- White Fawn's Devotion
- The Invaders
- Navajo Canyon Country
- Navajo Astronomers
- Pueblo Heritage
- National Bison Range
African American
- Booker T. Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Harlem Renaissance Artists
- Negro Colleges in Wartime
Martin Luther King, Jr. - M.L.K. - News Clips.
- M.L.K. The Dream of Kings
- Roy Wilkins
- Five Artists
- March on Washington
- The Negro Soldier
- Integration Report 1
- ... more
Immigration
Great Depression
- Our Daily Bread
- Meet John Doe
- My Man Godfrey
- Financing the American Family
- Depression scenes in South Dakota
- The Plow that Broke the Plains
- Fireside Chat - FDR
- Roosevelt: Social Security
Technology - Aviation
- Lindbergh Transatlantic Flight
- Flying Macines: Hair-Raising Moments
- Aviation: World Through Stamps
- B17: Flying Fortress
- Wright Brothers & Early Aviation
- Wright Flyer
- Huges H-4 - Spruce Goose
- Amelia Earhart
- The Helicopter
American West
- Great American West
- The Martyrs of the Alamo
- Our Texas Heritage
- Oklahoma Oasis
- McLintock
- Annie Oakley
1940s
A resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History
U.S. History Videos - History Topics
Colonial America
- Early Settlers of New England
- Mayflower II, Building of a Replica
- Jamestown Archaeology
- Puritan Family of Early New England
- The Town Crier
- Provincetown, MA
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Last of the Mohicans
The Boston Tea Party- Colonial Coloring Page
- Colonial Williamsburg: 1954
- Spanish Empire in the New World (español)
Revolutionary War
- Continental Congress
- Declaration of Independence
set to music - The Story of Our Independence
- Sea Power during the Rev War
- Lexington and Concord
- Americans: 1776
- US Navy War of Independence 1775 – 1783
- Force of Citizens - Revolution
- The Revolutionary War
- Washington at Valley Forge
- Fort Ticonderoga
- America at 200 Years
A New Nation
War of 1812/ Misc Military
- Mutiny
- War of 1812
- USS Constitution
- Star Spangled Banner
- US Navy – 1815 - 1860
- The War of 1812
- Seas of Liberty
Civil War
- The American Civil War
- Santa Fe Trail
- The Civil War
- Naval Activity during the Civil War
- Confederate Soldier Dies at 99
- Drums in the Deep South
- Battle of Balls Bluff
- Kansas Pacific
- The General
- The Plantation System in Southern Life
- Hearts in Bondage
- Amazing 2-Frame CW Movies of the 1860s
Frontier/Pioneers
- American Pioneer
- Cumberland Gap
- Flatboatmen of the Frontier
- Kentucky Pioneers
- Daniel Boone
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
- Donner Party: Site Excavation
- Cataloochee - Center of the World
- Erie Canal
- Pioneers of the Plains
U.S. Government
World War I
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- America Goes Over - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Naval Aviation: A Personal Memory
- A Farewell to Arms
World War II / Pearl Harbor
- Bombing of Pearl Harbor
- To the Shores of Iwo Jima
- The Battle of Midway
- D-Day Minus One
- D-Day - Victory at Sea: Episode 15
- Air Army Invades Germany
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- The Memphis Belle
- Autobiography of a Jeep
- The Tuskegee Airmen
- The Price of Liberty
- News Review 1943
- Nazis Defeated
- WWII - Victory in Europe
- Japan Surrenders
Over Time
Parks/Landmarks/Monuments
- History of our National Parks
- Fantastic Yellowstone
- Rainier National Park
- National Parks - Looking Back
- The Statue of Liberty
- The White House
- Monticello/University of VA: Jefferson/Monroe
- National Wildlife Refuge System
- Wash., D.C. - Invitation to a Nation
- ...more
General History - States
People & Events
- Frederick Douglass
- Titanic: Night of April 14th, 1912
- Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Artist Georgia O'Keeffe
- First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
- The Hindenburg Disaster
- War of the Worlds broadcast
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban Missile Crisis Symposium
- Einstein dies at 76
- ... more
Early 1900s
Retro Futuristic
- Things to Come
- Nonstop to New York
- Frontiers of the Future
- Buck Rogers
- Leave it to Roll-Oh
- New Horizons
- Radar to the Moon
- Our Shrinking World
- Destination Moon
- Dream Hospital
- George Orwell's 1984
- Popeye's Future
- Design for Dreaming
- American Look Pt.1
- American Look Pt.2
- American Look Pt.3
- Out of this World
- ...more
American Presidents
- America’s Presidents: Wash-McKinley
- Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's Boyhood
- Lincoln in Springfield
- The Face of Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- Nor Long Remember: Gettysburg Addr
- William McKinley Inauguration
- Theodore Roosevelt 1 | 2
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge 1 | 2 | 3
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Roosevelt | Inauguration
- Truman | Library | Assasin Attempt
- Harry Truman: Self-Portrait
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Johnson: State of the Union
- Kennedy Inauguration | Navy Speech
- Kennedy: A Biography
- Barack Obama Inauguration
- Kennedy Assasination
- Popeye for President
- Presidential Turkeys
Science & Invention
- Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- A Tribute to Minority Inventors
- U.S. Patent Office Treasures
- Vest Pocket Cycle
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Thomas Edison: Lightbulb
- Henry Ford's Quadricycle
- Energy: The American Experience
- The Invention Museum
- The Story of Television
- Betty Boop's Crazy Invention
Technology - Telephone
Railroads/Trains
- Mount Tamalpais Gravity Railroad
- The Great Train Robbery
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- This Is My Railroad- Pt.: 1 | 2
- Safe Roads (steam trains)
- Black Diamond Express 1896
- Mainline U.S.A.
- Rock Island Lines
- Big Train
- Model Railroads
- Railroad Strike of 1946
- 3rd Ave "EL" I | 3rd Ave "EL" II
- Trolley
- The Wild Engine
- Monon: The Hoosier Line
Space Race
- Scientist Robert H. Goddard
- Unmanned Mercury Capsule
- Kennedy Tour of Space Program
- Chimp in Space
- The John Glenn Story
- Project Gemini
- Time of Apollo
- Apollo 11: Moon Landing
- Apollo 13: Houston, We've Got a Problem
- Nasa: The 25th Year
- Space Station
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