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 into historical subjects.
Native American
- Buffalo Dance
- Tahtonkta
- Wounded Knee Massacre
- Navajo Canyon Country
- Pueblo Heritage
- National Bison Range
African American
- Amistad
- Frederick Douglass
- Booker T. Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Tuskegee Airmen
- African Americans in World War II
- Negro Soldier in World War II
- Negro Colleges in Wartime
- Integration Report 1
- James Meredith
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- M.L.K. - News Clips.
- M.L.K. The Dream of Kings
- Roy Wilkins
- March on Washington
- Harlem Renaissance Artists
- Minority Inventors
- Barack Obama Inauguration
Immigration
Great Depression
- Financing the American Family
- Fireside Chat - FDR
- Roosevelt: Social Security
- Frontiers of the Future
- The Plow that Broke the Plains
- My Man Godfrey
- Daily Life in Philadelphia
- Depression scenes in South Dakota
Technology - Aviation
- Wright Brothers
- Wright Brothers Story
- I Was at Kittyhawk
- Lindbergh Transatlantic Flight
- Amelia Earhart
- Howard Huges Plane Crash
- General Hap Arnold
- Early Aviation
- The Airforce Story: The Beginning
- Aviation: World Through Stamps
- Pioneers in Naval Aviation
- Flying Machines: Acrobatics
- Hindenburg Disaster Coverage
- Airships
- B17: Flying Fortress
- The Memphis Belle
- The Tuskegee Airmen
- Huges H-4 - Spruce Goose
- The Helicopter
- The Vest Pocket Cycle
American West
- Annie Oakley
- Driving of the Golden Spike
- California Gold Rush
- Great American West
- Oklahoma Oasis
- Our Texas Heritage
- American Pioneer
- National Bison Range
1940s
Martin Luther King
Harry S. Truman
- President Harry S. Truman
- Truman - Assasination Attempt
- Truman Presidential Library Opens
- Harry S. Truman - Biography
- President Harry S. Truman
Money & Finance
A resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History
U.S. History Videos - History Topics
Find People and Events from our nation's history.
- Scan by century to find people & events from: George Washington to Richard Nixon and The Boston Tea Party to the Bicentenial.
Colonial America
- The New World
- New World: Spanish Empire (español)
- Jamestown Settlement
- Old Point Comfort
- Colonial Virginia
- Mayflower II, Building of a Replica
- Early Settlers of New England
- Puritan Family of Early New England
- The Town Crier
- Provincetown, MA
- Colonial Era Economy
- The Boston Tea Party
- Colonial Williamsburg: 1954
- Fort Ticonderoga
- Colonial Coloring Page
Revolutionary War
- The Boston Tea Party
- Continental Congress
- Musket in the Revolutionary War
- Americans: 1776
- Revolutionary War Soldier
- The Founding of Our Nation
- The Story of Our Independence
- Betsy Ross
- Sea Power during the Rev War
- Revolutionary War
- American Revolution
- Colonial Virginia
- Artillery in the Revolutionary War
- Continental Soldier
- Lexington and Concord
- Force of Citizens - Revolution
- Navy: War of Independence 1775 – 1783
- Songs of the American Revolution
- Citizen Soldiers
- New Providence Island
A New Nation
War of 1812/ +Misc Military
- Introduction to the War of 1812
- Soldiers in the War of 1812
- War of 1812
- Mutiny
- USS Constitution: Old Ironsides
- The War of 1812
- The War of 1812 Overview
- Star Spangled Banner
- US Navy – 1815 - 1860
- Seas of Liberty
Civil War
- Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
- Frederick Douglass
- Kansas Pacific
- Santa Fe Trail
- The American Civil War
- The Springfield Rifle in the Civil War
- The Civil War Soldier
- The Matthew Brady Story
- The Civil War Economy
- Songs of the Civil War
- Overview of the Civil War
- The Clara Barton Story
- The Civil War
- In the Border States
- Amazing 2-Frame CW Movies of the 1860s
- Cumberland Gap
- Battle of Balls Bluff
- Fort Monroe in the Civil War
- Drums in the Deep South
- Monitor and the Merrimac
- Hearts in Bondage
- Naval Activity during the Civil War
- Admiral David Farragut
- The Gettysburg Address
- Abraham Lincoln
- Nor Long Remember - Gettysburg Address
- Confederate Soldier Dies at 99
Frontier/Pioneers
- Daniel Boone
- Mountain Men of Utah
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
- Kentucky Pioneers
- Lewis and Clark Intro
- Lewis and Clark
- Donner Party: Site Excavation
- Erie Canal
- Cumberland Gap
- American Pioneer
- Flatboatmen of the Frontier
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Pioneers of the Plains
- National Bison Range
- Cataloochee - Center of the World
Holidays/Observances
John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy Inauguration
- John F. Kennedy Speech
- J.F.K.: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Cuban Blockade
- The Cuban Missle Crisis Speech
- Symposium: Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Warren Report: J.F.K. Assasination
American Artists
One Minute History: Quick and easy to watch videos.
- History in a Minute! Here's a collection of short and sweet American History Videos lasting a minute or two. Each entry gives a flavor of a historical topic.
World War I
- World War I
- Songs of World War I
- America Goes Over - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Naval Aviation: A Personal Memory
- A Farewell to Arms
World War II
- A Short History of World War II
- An Introduction to World War II
- Bombing of Pearl Harbor
- The Battle of Midway
- To the Shores of Iwo Jima
- Japan Surrenders
- WWII - Victory in Europe
- D-Day Minus One
- Battle of the Bulge
- Air Army Invades Germany
- Nazis Defeated
- The Memphis Belle
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- The Tuskegee Airmen
- Japanese Internment
- African Americans in World War II
- News Review 1943
- Negro Soldier in World War II
- Autobiography of a Jeep
- Japan Surrenders
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- General George C. Marshall
- General Douglas MacArthur
- General Hap Arnold
- General George S. Patton
- General Joseph Stilwell
Over Time
Parks/Landmarks, etc.
- History of our National Parks
- Fantastic Yellowstone
- The Four Seasons of Yellowstone
- Geyers of California
- Rainier National Park
- National Parks - Looking Back
- The White House
- The Statue of Liberty
- Statue of Liberty
- Ellis Island
- Wash., D.C. - Invitation to a Nation
- Monticello/UVA: Jefferson/Monroe
- Allegeny Portage Railroad
- National Wildlife Refuge System
- National Bison Range
Early 1900s
- The Wright Brothers/Early Aviation
- President Theodore Roosevelt
- The Living Past
- Ellis Island
- Flash Cleaner - Early Commercial
- Ford's Mirror of America
Retro Futuristic
- Frontiers of the Future
- Leave it to Roll-Oh
- New Horizons
- Radar Round Trip to the Moon
- Our Shrinking World
- Dream Hospital
- George Orwell's 1984
- Design for Dreaming
- American Look
- Out of this World
- Interview with Isaac Asimov
U.S. Government
- Cobbler Statesman
- Our Bill of Rights
- Democracy
- Meet Your Federal Government
- The Powers of Congress
- Two Centuries of Criminal Justice
- History of the Federal Courts
- Marbury v. Madison
- U.S. v. Aaron Burr
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- The Federal Reserve System
- The Library of Congress
- Department of the Treasury
- History of the GPO
- The National Archives
- U.S. Money: History & How It's Made
Airships
- Hindenburg Sets Record
- Hindenburg Disaster - Onsite
- Hindenburg - Pathe News Reel
- Hindenburg - Universal News Reel
- Hindenburg - Survivors/Inquiry
- Airships
- History of Hot Air Balloons
- Airship Akron Trials
- Akron Disaster
- Airship Macon
Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's Boyhood
- Lincoln in Springfield
- The Face of Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- Gettysburg Address
- Flatboatmen of the Frontier
Pearl Harbor
American Presidents
- First 25 America’s Presidents
- Presidential Turkeys
- Betsy Ross
- Whiskey Rebellion
- D.C. - Invitation to a Nation
- Our Bill of Rights
- Monticello/UVA: Jefferson/Monroe
- Marbury v. Madison
- The Lousiana Purchase
- United States vs Aaron Burr
- Vice President Aaron Burr
- Amistad
- Abraham Lincoln
- The Face of Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- Gettysburg Address
- William McKinley Inauguration
- Theodore Roosevelt 1 | 2
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge 1 | 2 | 3
- Herbert Hoover
- FDR | Inaug | Chats | SS | 4th Term
- Truman | Library | Assasin | Story
- Dwight Eisenhower | 49th State
- JFK Inauguration | JFK Navy Speech
- JFK Bio | Cuban MC | Warren Report
- Johnson: State of the Union | Inaug
- Richard Nixon - Watergate Address
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- G.W. Bush
- Barack Obama Inauguration
- White House
Science & Invention
- Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Thomas Edison: Lightbulb
- The Wright Brothers
- Henry Ford's Quadricycle
- Model T Ford and the Assembly-Line
- A Tribute to Minority Inventors
- U.S. Patent Office Treasures
- Vest Pocket Cycle
- Betty Boop's Crazy Invention
- George Washington Carver
- Frontiers of the Future
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- Energy: The American Experience
- Magic In the Air: Television
- The Story of Television
- The American Look
Technology: Telephone
Railroads/Trains
- 3rd Ave "EL"
- Driving of the Golden Spike
- Monon: The Hoosier Line
- The Wild Engine
- Big Train
- Rock Island Lines
- Model Railroads
- Trolley
- Railroad Strike of 1946
- Black Diamond Express 1896
- Mainline U.S.A.
- Kansas Pacific
- Safe Roads (steam trains)
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Mount Tamalpais Gravity Railroad
- This Is My Railroad- Pt.: 1 | 2
Space Race
- The Universe
- Scientist Robert H. Goddard
- Sputnik
- Yuri Gagarin
- Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
- Unmanned Mercury Capsule
- Kennedy Tour of Space Program
- Chimp in Space
- The John Glenn Story
- Project Gemini
- Apollo 11: Moon Landing
U.S. Flag
- The Story of Our Flag
- Old Glory: The Story of the U.S. Flag
- Betsy Ross
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Alaska adds the 49th Star
- Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima
Crime and Punishment
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Scarface Al Capone
- Counterfeiting Money
- Two Centuries of Criminal Justice
- History of Federal Court Goverance
Washington, D.C.
- White House
- D.C. Tour
- Wash., D.C. - Invitation to a Nation
- Nation's Capitol: Early 1920s
- DC Parks: Present and Future?
- Dawn Strikes the Capitol Dome
- Washington in Wartime
- March on Washington
- The Library of Congress
- The National Archives
- History of the GPO
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