Curated Video
Dreams, Plans, and Commitment: What it Takes to Start a Small Business
The video features various individuals sharing their personal stories of trauma, loss, and adversity. They speak about their struggles and the moments of despair they faced. However, they also discuss how they drew strength and courage...
Curated Video
Keds: America's First Viral Sneakers
They were the Nike Air of their day – and they helped spark a sneaker revolution! Discover how Keds cornered the market for comfortable footwear in the 1950s and beyond.
ShortCutsTv
Family and Social Change
How are family life, structure and relationships changing? And to what extent are these changes a consequence of modernity and postmodernity? This film examines these questions in terms of three types of social change: identity,...
Curated Video
Tennis for Two: America's First Video Game
It was pretty basic – but also revolutionary! Find out how American physicist William Higinbotham created Tennis For Two and discover its links to the mysterious Manhattan Project.
Curated Video
DJ Kool Herc's Turntables: Hip Hop Extraordinaire
In 1970s New York, 16-year-old Jamaican immigrant Clive Campbell (aka DJ Kool Herc) used his trusty turntables to loop funk records and bring the beat. In the process he helped create one of America's true art forms: hip hop.
Curated Video
Barbara Jordan: The Black Texan Politician who Broke the Glass Ceiling
At a time when women and people of colour were all but excluded from the US government, one woman stormed the corridors of power and made them her own. This is the story of Barbara Jordan, the African American from the South who defied...
Curated Video
John Rollin Ridge: the Native American Novelist Like No Other
We've had some great American Novelists? You've read some of them in school, right? But one writer you've probably never heard of is John Rollin Ridge, aka Yellow Bird: the first Native American to ever publish a novel about a fictitious...
Vlogbrothers
What Caused the War? Ukraine and Russia in Historical Context
In which John explores historical and political context to understand what caused the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine| and how we arrived at this awful now.
Weird History
What Did Ancient Egyptians Eat
So what did the ancient Egyptians people eat? What gave them the strength to build the pyramids, to spread out from the Nile, to forge one of the most influential empires the world has ever seen? The answers might surprise you.
Ancient Lights Media
Japan: Culture
Video Atlas of Asia: This clip takes a look at some of Japan's unique cultural elements.
Tom Nicholas
Colonialism - WTF? Introduction to colonialism and imperialism
In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we take a look at colonialism and imperialism. More specifically we look at the politics of colonialism and the appearance of colonialist ideology in culture. As a primer for my upcoming video...
Curated Video
Turkey, Assos Theatre
The theatre of Assos in Asia Minor in Turkey, It was discovered that the theatre which had been set up on the south slope of the ancient city across Lesbos was destroyed during an earthquake. The theatre with 2500 people capacity had...
The Africa Channel
Acoustic Ancestry
ACOUSTIC ANCESTRY is a music series of 3-5 minute pieces in which the sounds of little known, surprising, or perhaps lost indigenous African musical instruments are highlighted, along with the stories of their contributions to music....
Bridgeman Arts
Hijra Community, Karachi 1
Members of the Hijra transgender community on the streets of Karachi, sometimes found begging at traffic intersections. Colour corrected.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images, book covers.
Bridgeman Arts
1940s, Pueblo Children, schoolroom
1940s: Man sits in classroom, teacher stands at front of class, talks. Men practice metalsmith trade.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Pan of stamps.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Pan of stamps / Photographs of woman / Pan of cartoon / Pan of diagram / Zoom out on collage / Montage of graphics.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images, fonts.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of images / Paper in printer, men assemble ad / Close up of tablets / Montage of graphic images.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of cars.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Montage of cars, advertisements / Montage of graphic images.
Bridgeman Arts
UNITED STATES 1960s: Views of zoetrope figures.
UNITED STATES 1960s: Views of zoetrope figures, Montage of graphics of eyes / Picture of pig / Zoom in on cartoon / Zoom in on driver's license.