TLDR News
Brits Attempt the British Citizenship Test - TLDR News
Those attempting to get British citizenship have to complete a test to prove their British enough; the Life in the UK Test. So we thought if we expect them to know that stuff, shouldn't we know it too? So we tested our British TLDR Team...
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Python In Practice - 15 Projects to Master Python - elif Statements
This video explains elif statements and how to write elif statements. This clip is from the chapter "Decision Control in Python" of the series "Python in Practice - 15 Projects to Master Python".This section focuses on decision control...
Curated Video
Intro To Python Programming - Else Statements
Not every conditional is evaluated as true. In this section of the course, you'll create else statements to work with false conditions.
Weird History
What It Was Like To Live In Ancient Rome During Its Golden Age
Ancient Rome was at its apex from the second century BC through the second century AD. During the Pax Romana of the first and second centuries AD, Rome benefited from the expansion of its empire, with vast amounts of wealth and diverse...
Curated Video
Ancient Greek Theater
Greece was home to hundreds of open-air arenas where citizens came together to discuss the important issues of the day. Like Broadway today, they were a place for both entertainment and important social commentary.
Science360
Observing The Great American Eclipse
In a first of its kind, citizen scientists and researchers created a ninety minute time-lapse video of the sun's inner corona. The Citizen CATE (Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse) Experiment captured images of the inner solar corona...
Curated Video
The Citizen Soldier
With the first shots of the American Revolution, they downed tools and ran to help in the fight for independence. This is the story of the ordinary people who helped found a nation.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
To Be a Good Citizen, You Need Not Be Rich
Minouche Shafik says that for democracy to work, we must keep the market out of certain domains In this full-length interview from What Money Can’t Buy, political philosopher Michael Sandel and London School of Economics Director...
Curated Video
Voting in Ancient Athens
The United States is a representative democracy where people vote for politicians to govern on their behalf – but voting in the direct democracy of ancient Athens was a very different process.
Mediacorp
Mystical Islam: Exploring Indonesia's Tolerance and Tradition
This video explores the mystical Islamic practices in Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. It highlights the syncretism of beliefs, including Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, and animist, within the Kujawa version of Islam. Deciphering Indonesia,...
Independent Producers
Direct Democracy in Athens
Modern campaigning can get pretty dirty, but politicians today are only taking their cues from politicians in ancient Athens. This public radio story describes how direct democracy was carried out in ancient Athens, a Greek city-state....
Mr. Beat
Can Congress Have Term Limits
In episode 46 of Supreme Court Briefs, Arkansas tries to get rid of career politicians through indirect term limits. Yeah but is it legal?
Mediacorp
Examining the Focus on the Gay Community in Indonesia
This video discusses a concerned group that focuses on criticizing and opposing the gay community, criminalizing sex outside of marriage, and imposing their own moral values on Indonesian society. It highlights the importance of...
Mazz Media
Immigrant
This live-action video program is about the word Immigrant. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Immigrant through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Mazz Media
The Sixth Amendment: Rights of the Accused
In this program students will learn that the sixth amendment to the constitution guarantees the rights of people accused of a crime. Viewers will learn about those rights and how they protect citizens. Students will also learn how the...
Curated Video
Designing the Constitution: Learning from our Ancestors
How the Founding Fathers used the experiences of other democratic societies to inform the US Constitution.
Curated Video
What is a Citizen? From Ancient Athens to the US
Citizenship allows people to participate in the democratic process, but the road to inclusive citizenship has not been a smooth one.
Curated Video
Civic Engagement: Power to the People
Democracy was born when the Athenian government transitioned from the “rule of a few” to the “rule of many”, around 3,000 years ago.
The March of Time
1948: U.S. MEXICO VACATION PLANNING: INT VS Family at table looking at traveling brochures. CU Mexico brochures. EXT WS Brentanos book store, NYC. MS Woman, table of books on Mexico. MS Man showing book to woman. CU Books.
MOT 1948: U.S. MEXICO VACATION PLANNING: INT VS Family at table looking at traveling brochures. CU Mexico brochures. EXT WS Brentanos book store, NYC. MS Woman, table of books on Mexico. MS Man showing book to woman. CU Books.
60 Second Histories
Democracy in Ancient Greece
A Greek philosopher explains how democracy began in Ancient Greece including the oligarchy system of rule
Press Association
Green party leader pledges improvement to Work/Life balance in Ireland
Green party leader and minister Roderic O'Gorman said his party is pledging to implement a Citizens' Assembly on implementing a four-day work week and a new bank holiday. Mr O'Gorman, speaking at Merrion Square, also urged caution in...
Curated Video
Voter torn between her conservative values and her immigrant husband
She’s a self-described die-hard Republican. But her husband could be sent back to Mexico under former President Donald Trump’s vow of mass deportations if he were to win the election. So which candidate will she choose? (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Georgia Secretary of State gives update on record early voting, election security
Georgia is seeing record turnout in early voting, state officials said Wednesday. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Massive protests erupt in Israel after murders of 6 hostages by Hamas
Israeli protests broke out after the bodies of six hostages were discovered in a Hamas-run tunnel in Rafah. (Scripps News)