PBS
The Diary of Anne Frank
While designed to supplement a viewing of the PBS Masterpiece Classic The Diary of Anne Frank, this resource can also serve as an excellent informational text and activity source for your students on the historical context and timeline...
Film Education
Glory
If you are previewing the film Glory for your young historians, this packet may help you spark ideas for discussion and offer some interesting facts and quotations that may add to your presentation of this Civil War narrative. It...
McGraw Hill
Study Guide for The Scarlet Letter
How does or society punish people who break the law? What effect does guilt have on a person's life? In what way does or society demand we conform to certain conventions? Such questions, found in this study guide, are sure to...
PBS
Democracy in Action: Freedom Riders
This is a must-have resource for every social studies teacher covering the civil rights movement. Through an engaging video and detailed viewing guide, young historians learn about the Freedom Riders, and discover how everyday...
Other
High Tech Productions: History of Film & Television
High Tech Productions provides a timeline history of television. It starts at the invention of the motion picture camera and goes all the way through television's greatest moments.
Other
The British Film Institute: Charlie Chaplin
A wonderful celebration of the life and work of film great Charlie Chaplin. Fantastic resources including a biography as well as current global projects to restore his films.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: American History and Film: Time Magazine the Generation Gap
These excerpts appeared in "Time Magazine" between 1967 and 1968 and reveal the country's frustration with the growing influence of the sixties counterculture.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Reemergence of the Kkk
Discusses the history of the Ku Klux Klan, the group's resurgence after World War I, and the film about the KKK called Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith.
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Black Battalion
This site, support material for a documentary film, outlines the history of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, a non-combatant Black battalion established in 1916. It was created to permit Blacks to participate in the war effort. This new...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Marlene Dietrich
Marie Dietrich was one of the most popular film and music stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Tracing the Roots of America's Motion Picture Industry
In the late 1800's, Thomas Edison and his fellow inventors were key in the American film industry's boom.This web site provides a podcast and accompanying transcript tracing the roots of the film industry in America. Podcast [21:27]
Library of Congress
Loc: America at the Turn of the Century
A short report on America by 1900: "..the American nation had established itself as a world power. The West was Won. The frontier -- the great fact of 300 years of American history -- was no more."
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: A Century of Development
The Franklin Institute looks at the invention of the Brownie camera, which helped put photography into the hands of amateurs and allowed the middle class to take their own snapshots as well in the early 20th century.
The History Place
The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Triumph of the Will
Describes Hitler's rallies in Nuremberg and the film, Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl that was used in the Nazi propaganda campaign.
Other
Reel Classics: Shirley Temple
This guide offers a history of child film star Shirley Temple's career. Includes audio and video. Requires Quicktime.
Other
Something About Mary Pickford
This article is about the life and career of Mary Pickford, a Canadian-born actress who gained fame as a silent film star in Hollywood.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Motion Picture Timeline [Pdf]
Follow the evolution of motion pictures and motion picture devices on this pictorial timeline.
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Breaking the Ice: The Mary Ann Shadd Story
Mary Ann Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1823. She emigrated to Windsor, Upper Canada and was a leader in advocating for integrated schools at a time when most Canadians believed segregated schools should predominate. This web...
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Hungarian Revolution 1956
As part of the film series produced about various groups that resettled in Canada, White Pines Pictures gives a brief historical background of the wave of Hungarian immigration in 1956. Click on the teacher link at the top for lesson...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Cleopatra
A comprehensive overview of the life of Cleopatra VII. Content includes a look at Cleopatra's legacy, involving both films and paintings.
Other
Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1940 1949
Take a walk through this part of American history surrounding World War II. Each section includes cultural history of the time, with links pertaining to art and architecture, books and literature, education, fads and fashion, historic...
Black Past
Black Past: Jones, Quincy
This encyclopedia entry offers a brief look at Quincy Jones, who began as a jazz trumpet player, but has expanded his career beyond music into film and television. There are links to websites for more information.
Black Past
Black Past: Dandridge, Dorothy
This interesting encyclopedia article tells about the ultimately tragic life of Dorothy Dandridge, a talented black actress.