Weird History
Life of Alcatraz Prison Guards
Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless criminals. Life at Alcatraz was not just about confinement and punishment but discipline and routine. Not everything about Alcatraz was...
Weird History
How Exactly Did Australia Become a Penal Colony?
Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for lawbreakers to reside outside the confines of...
TMW Media
Inside the Eastern State Penitentiary
We’re hanging out with our founding fathers on this episode of Travel Thru History as we visit the very place where revolutionaries, decried “Liberty will reign in America!” Today Philadelphia is a booming city that is as alive with new...
Tom Nicholas
Foucault: WTF? An Introduction to Foucault, Power and Knowledge
In this introduction to Foucault, we consider the relationship between knowledge and power through looking (primarily) at three books by Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The Order of Things and The History...
Jabzy
Slovak King of Madagascar - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Slovak King of Madagascar
Barcroft Media
Beauty Salon Behind Bars
INMATES at a womens’ prison are finding hope for their futures through an inspiring cosmetology teacher who is training them to be beauticians. Elsa Lumsden runs the Beauty Therapy course at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF),...
Barcroft Media
I Solved My Best Friend’s Murder: CHASING JUSTICE
AN AMATEUR sleuth turned private detective has devoted her life to cracking unsolved crimes after helping to track down the killer of her college friend 26 years after her death. Sheila Wysocki, 55, who now lives in Tennessee, met Angela...
Economics Explained
Could America Finally Win the War On Drugs... With Economics?: Reduce the Demand & Big Money, Big Problems
The war on drugs was declared in 1971 by president Richard Nixon in a press conference that went on to outline a plan to fight the trade of controlled substances across the world. Drugs were declared national enemy number 1. Since then...
The Economist
Wild horses behind bars
America has one of the worst reoffending rates in the world. But in Arizona, prisoners tame wild mustangs as part of a pioneering programme to teach them the life skills they need to break the cycle and stay out of jail.
Curated Video
Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
The video discusses the dangers of stupidity and how it can be more dangerous than malice. It explores how individuals can become stupid under certain circumstances and how it can be difficult to reason with them. The video also...
Barcroft Media
The Beauty School In A Men's Prison
A MEN'S prison is one of the world's least likely settings for a beauty school, but one group of California inmates are fast on their way to becoming qualified beauticians. Manicures, pedicures and facials are just some of the treatments...
Cerebellum
Early Scientific Revolution - Galileo Galilei
Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....
Weird History
The Love And Crime Spree Of Bonnie And Clyde
The release of Netflix's The Highwaymen begs an important question: What is the true story of Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow truly did live a fast and wild life on the wrong side of the law. A timeline of Bonnie and...
Financial Times
Tiananmen Square: China 30 years on
The FT's global China editor James Kynge was a reporter in Beijing when the government sent in troops and tanks to quash student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989. Talking to dissidents and political activists, he looks back at...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Roaring Twenties - Heroes, Villans And Scandals
Just the Facts: The Emergence of America Uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades thats shaped Modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of the early 20th century,...
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Home: The Harrowing Journey of Refugees
Jamila Lyiscott is a social justice education scholar, nationally renowned speaker, spoken word artist, and educational consultant. In this video, she performs the powerful and poignant spoken word piece, "Home" by Warsan Shire, which...
Step Back History
The Prison Ships of the American Revolution
Imagine being forced to row on what your captors call your last voyage. You slowly approach a towering black hulk of a ship. As you approach, a thousand horrible stenches, and the moans and groans of the dying assault your senses. With...
Curated Video
Israel, Acre- the Crusader city
Acre is the holiest city of the Baha'i Faith, and as such receives many Baha'i pilgrims. The city was known as Ptolemais during the Hellenistic and Roman-Byzantine periods. During the Crusades it was known as St. Jean d'Acre after the...
Mr. Beat
Miranda v. Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona March 13, 1963 Police arrest Ernesto Miranda, a suspect linked to the kidnapping and rape of an 18-year old woman ten days earlier. In a police lineup, the victim identified Miranda as the attacker. For two hours,...
Cerebellum
The Age Of Enlightenment - Religion, The Enlightenment, and Heroes Of The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment may not have left physical evidence behind like the pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum of Rome, but it has left us an intellectual heritage which is unquestionable in its importance. This video looks at how the...
Curated Video
A message of hope for transgender people
Transgender singer and former prison inmate Shea Diamond faced discrimination and hardship for challenging society's expectations of how she should be. She offers advice to her younger self.
Curated Video
Calculating Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms
In this video, the teacher explains how to calculate the surface area of a rectangular prism by analyzing its six faces and computing their areas. The teacher demonstrates the process using examples of different rectangular prisms,...
Mr. Beat
Guilty Until Proven Innocent The Scottsboro Boys Cases
In episode 47 of Supreme Court Briefs, it's the story of the Scottsboro Boys, the nine African American teenage boys who were falsely accused of raping two white women.