Weird History
What Was It Like To Be A Body Collector During The Black Plague?
Buboes, black spots, and bloody froth: it was all in a day’s work for Black Death body collectors. The plague, which may have killed as many as 200 million people worldwide, changed everything—including body disposal.
Jabzy
Fancy Vikings - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Fancy Vikings
The Telegraph
Dispatch: Inside Borodyanka, the town with a death toll feared higher than Bucha | Ukraine
The Telegraph's Political and Defence Correspondent, Danielle Sheridan, reports from the town of Borodyanka, a town destroyed by Russian forces. No one yet knows the death toll in Borodyanka, but Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president,...
Bridgeman Arts
RESEARCH IMW 'Liberation of Auschwitz' full documentary (content warning: distressing scenes)
Auschwith-Birkenau was probably the most infamous concentration camp of the Holocaust. It was liberated by Soviet troops in 1944 and a large proportion of the footage included was filmed by the Soviet cameraman Alexander Voronsin, who...
Curated Video
RR7812B PERU: EARTHQUAKE REPORT
14 mins 20 secs (English synch: 1 min 33 secs)
On May 31st 1970, one of the biggest earthquakes of
the century hit north-western Peru causing 70,000
deaths and reducing dozens of towns and villages to
rubble. Among the worst-hit...
Curated Video
Mistrust Leads Tulsa Massacre Descendants to Request DOJ Investigation
Descendants of the 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre are asking for an independent investigation by the Justice Department.
Bridgeman Arts
Liberation of Auschwitz Documentary - Part 7 of 11
Auschwith-Birkenau was probably the most infamous concentration camp of the Holocaust. It was liberated by Soviet troops in 1944 and a large proportion of the footage included was filmed by the Soviet cameraman Alexander Voronsin, who...
Curated Video
Rare Look At NYC's Island Of The Dead
A small island in the waters off the Bronx that holds the remains of about 1 million deceased New Yorkers has long been shrouded in secrecy, with limited public access.
But the city's Department of Correction, which...
Curated Video
GNS Exhumations at mass grave plus human rights concern and US comment
1. Wide shot pan of excavation area
2. Wide shot people gathered at site, sealed human remains on ground
3. Mid shot man looking at remains
4. Woman sitting on ground next to sealed body
5. Iraqis and US soldiers standing on ridge, tilt...
Curated Video
US criticised for not sending experts to scene
1. Wide shot of area with relatives searching bags containing human remains
2. Pan of people looking in bags
3. Close-up of freshly dug earth
4. Pan from earth to people
5. Set-up shot of Dr. Rafid Al Hussuni
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr....
Curated Video
Milosevic's statement on war crimes, more comments from lawyer
1. Exterior of The Hague/Scheveningen prison
2. Canadian lawyer Christopher Black emerges from prison after meeting with Slobodan Milosevic
3. Black getting into taxi
4. Black's hotel room at The Hague
5. SOUNDBITE: (English)...
Bridgeman Arts
Spread of communism throughout Europe and Asia, refugees fleeing, Khrushchev, North Korea, people crossing the Soviet border in Germany
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Refuges, walking barefoot on sand, "fleeing communist countries". Meeting relatives in refugees camp, kissing, embracing. Possibly staged. Communists in Asia, North Korea, mass grave, dead bodies....