Crash Course
Nonviolence and Peace Movements: Crash Course World History 228
In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace movement? Well. traditionally, humans often resort to violence when they come into conflict. In the 20th...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jesse Turner - Teachers Make a Difference
Dr. Turner is the Director of the CCSU Literacy Center, and a Professor in the Department of Literacy Elementary, and Early Childhood Education. He is also the Co-Host of TEDxCCSU events, (2013-Present), the Co-Host of the Central...
Tarver Academy
Be Happy by Leo Tolstoy
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About How to Be Happy by Leo Tolstoy
PBS
War and Peace and Everything Else (Feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes)
According to Tolstoy himself, War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle." And in this day and age of publishing, where word count, “readability”, and topical relevance are the lifeline...
Curated Video
SYND 29 1 77 SOVIET LEADER BREZHNEV VISITS HOME OF LEO TOLSTOY AT YASNAYA POLYANA NEAR TOWN OF TULA
Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev visits Yasnaya Polyana Estate, home of famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, near town of Tula in Russia.
1. gv exterior, Tolstoy's home
2. gv Brezhnev and party walking towards house
3. ms Brezhnev welcomed...
Curated Video
Preps for opening night of Toronto International Film Festival
The streets of Toronto are adorned with signs and every other person you see downtown has a credential around his neck.
Thousands of filmmakers, members of the media and industry representatives are in the Canadian city this week for the...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : 'Very emotional': Tolstoy descendant hosts Ukrainians in Switzerland
Under the intense gaze of Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy, his great-granddaughter listens with concern as Anastasia Sheludko describes the horrors she experienced before fleeing Ukraine (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
AP reporter tells of what sources said about arrest details
Lazarevo
1. Wide shot of 'Lazarevo' road sign with a small banner in the corner reading: (Serbian) "Ratko Hero"
2. Close-up of the small banner in the corner reading (Serbian) "Ratko Hero.. The god looks after its Serbs."
3. Wide...
Curated Video
Myanmar's first international literary festival opens
1. Pan from book to people looking at books for sale
2. Various of people looking at books for sale
3. Close of banner reading (English) "Irrawaddy Literary Festival"
4. Push in to book stand
5. Close of former exiled Burmese writer...
Curated Video
19th century printing processes still carried out in St Petersburg
Shot March 28,29 in St.Petersburg, Russia
1. Wide of St.Petersburg along the water
2. Wide of street
3. Mid of typographer picking up lead characters from boxes
4. Mid of typographer putting characters on bar
5. Close up of typographer...
Curated Video
Descendants of writer gather for family reunion
1. Alley of birch trees in Count Leo Tolstoy's estate in Yasnaya Polyana
2. Tolstoy's house
3. Signs indicating way to house, grave, and other locations in the estate
4. Tolstoy's relatives walking towards the grave in the woods
5....
Curated Video
Museum train makes first trip
1. Train Leo Tolstoy express at Kursky railstation
2. Various of orchestra playing
3. Impersonator of Anna Karenina walking to the train
4. Impersonator of Alexei Vronsky standing by the train
5. Actors getting into the train
6....
Curated Video
SYND 8 2 60 CHEKHOV HOUSE AT MELIKHOVO OPENED AS MUSEUM
In 1892, the famous 19th / 20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov bought the small country estate of Melikhovo, about forty miles south of Moscow, where he lived until 1899 with his family. Scenes of an exhibition the house, now a...
Crash Course
Nonviolence and Peace Movements: Crash Course World History 228
Is violence inevitable, or can peace overcome war? A Crash Course World History discusses how Leo Tolstoy influenced Mohandas Gandhi to use nonviolent resistance against British Imperialism, and how Gandhi's example became a...
The School of Life
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Iiyich. Ah, the novels of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, aka Leo Tolstoy. Introduce the writings of this famous social reformer with a video that details his life and major works.
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?
The famous length of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace — 15 books and 365 chapters — presents a real challenge for many readers and their teachers. So why bother? Use a short video that argues for a reading of an unabridged...
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: In Our Time: Leo Tolstoy
Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about Leo Tolstoy. Experts discuss the impact and meaning of his live and work. Listening requires RealPlayer.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: War and Peace: Lesson 3
This lesson will consider ideas on both war and peace from a variety of religious traditions. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "War and Peace."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: War and Peace: Lesson 1
This lesson will consider ideas on both war and peace from a variety of religious traditions. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "War and Peace."