A video spotlights former child refugees and their experience of leaving their home country, Cuba, to live in Florida for a safer life. While Fidel Castro reigned, many Cubans families and small children made the decision to leave,...

Guilty until proven innocent? A short video tackles the question of why witch hunts occur by examining the history of these purges and the tests used to identify those suspect of working with the devil.

Do fences make good neighbors? Do walls offer a solution to political and social problems? A video that traces the building of and destruction of the wall that divided the West and East German sections of Berlin offers viewers a...

Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes held different beliefs about economic systems that evolved from their predecessors, and then shaped by their countries' economic situations. A video from Crash Course Economics...

What works better: a planned economy or a market economy? Join the global debate with a Crash Course video about macroeconomics and the differences between economic systems. With quotes from Adam Smith and Karl Marx guiding...

How did the United States and the USSR seek ideological and strategic influence throughout the world during the Cold War? This video details the Soviet's creation of pro-communist governments in surrounding nations following World War II...

Introduce your social studies lesson about communism with this four-minute video. A student narrates facts about communism and how it works in a society. Tip: After watching this video, have your students write a reflection paragraph...

PBS's Frontline examines the failures of U.S. policy and Boris Yeltsin's leadership during Russia's tumultuous 1990's Post-Soviet transformation. Content includes interviews, photographs, video excerpts, and more.

FRONTLINE, a program on PBS, offers a detailed exploration into the Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. Content includes an in-depth interview with Putin and other U.S. and Russian policymakers, a treatise written by Putin in December...

A discussion of capitalism, socialism, communism, and the philosophies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. [15:04]

Webisode 13 - Democracy & Struggles. The history of the United States is presented in a series of webisodes, within each are a number of segments. Included are links to lesson plans, teacher guides, resources, activities, and tools.

Survivors from the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre shared their stories at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing marking the 25th anniversary of the student protests.

Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses the changing notion of arms control agreements during The Reagan Administration. [9:57]

Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses how the United States stabilized Soviet relations and improved relations with China. [8:13]

This video [1:57] from the American Masters film Ralph Ellison: An American Journey explores the relationship between the fictional Brotherhood in the novel Invisible Man and the real-life Communist Party. Both Ellison and his literary...

In this video episode [5:29] from The Favorite Poem Project, Stephen Conteaguero, a United States Marine officer who is stationed in Miami, Florida, describes himself and explains why William Yeats' poem entitled "Politics" connects to...

In this video, learn about democracy, oligarchy, and autocracy, the three main types of government. [3:53]

Che Guevara believed that communism would save the impoverished people of Latin America. Learn more about how he became a revolutionary icon of the anti-establishment in this video. [3:53]

In this video, the Red Scare of the 1920s is explained. Major fear of Communist Revolutions in the United States are experienced, and Sacco and Vanzetti (anarchist immigrants) are executed for a murder they may not have committed. [3:59]

In this video, the concept of Communism and where it came from is explained. [3:54]

The Khan Academy gives an overview of Communism and the Marxist-Leninist States prevalent during the Cold War.

This video offers a brief description of the Truman Doctrine and its impact. [3:04]

Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the US Tara Sonenshine discusses how American public diplomacy evolved in Cuba. [5:06]

Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the US Tara Sonenshine discusses how public diplomacy transformed from WWI to the end of the Cold War. [6:55]