Barcroft Media
The World's Most Expensive Dessert
NEW YORK: UNITED STATES - AUGUST 4: The $25,000 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate at Serendipity 3 restaurant on August 4, 2010 in New York, United States. The mind boggling £15,730 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate is on offer at New York's famous...
Curated Video
America's First Prima Ballerina
In a world dominated by mainly caucasian dancers, Native American Maria Tallchief overcame discrimination to become the United States’ first prima ballerina.
History Hit
Maps That Made America: Ptolemaic world map and the Map of the world
How does this map help us understand what Christopher Columbus did? What is interesting yet useful about the other mysterious map? Maps That Made America, Part 5
Curated Video
The Runway for Metastatic Breast Cancer: Empowering Women and Raising Awareness
Dana's Triumph part 4/4: The video is about a fashion show that raised money for metastatic breast cancer research. The show featured models who were metastatic breast cancer patients, highlighting their struggle with the disease. The...
Physics Girl
"Of course it's scary." - Candid Interview with COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist
Dianna from Physics Girl interviews an ER Nurse Practitioner and an Epidemiologist about their experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Telegraph
Tim Stanley the west can turn around its post 911 crisis of self confidence
“The West can turn around its post-9/11 crisis of self-confidence & decline” Twenty years on from the 11th September attacks we could still witness a return of confidence and initiative to the West. The Telegraph’s Leader Writer Tim...
Learn German with Herr Antrim
German for Beginners #32: At the Post Office
What can you do at a German post office? How do you send a package from Germany to the USA? How much does it cost to send a package from Germany to the USA? All of these questions and more are taught in this A1/A2 German listening...
Next Animation Studio
British Airways set new speed record for transatlantic flights
A British Airways Boeing 747-400 set the record for the fastest ever subsonic flight across the Atlantic on Sunday.
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
Next Animation Studio
New York's LaGuardia Airport undergoes major renovation
LaGuardia International Airport is being renovated in a push to modernize the aging airport.
Curated Video
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
Curated Video
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals: Great Art Explained
"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020
Curated Video
Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The...
The March of Time
Harbor Patrol airplane
MOT 1939: NEW YORK CITY POLICE: Policemen getting into patrol boat (#11) at waterfront. HA WS NYPD Police boat pulling up along side ship in harbor. Policeman getting into airplane. Policemen manning dispatch radios working teletype...
The March of Time
1953: TOLSTOY FARM: WS Woody station wagon turning into property drive, driving long driveway, stopping by house, adults supervising children playing in front yard FG, Westbrook Van Voorhis in coat stepping out of car, walking to, opening house door.
MOT 1953: TOLSTOY FARM: WS Woody station wagon turning into property drive, driving long driveway, stopping by house, adults supervising children playing in front yard FG, Westbrook Van Voorhis in coat stepping out of car, walking to,...
Curated Video
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained
Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone. This...
The March of Time
Morales organizing, Bencosme killed
MOT 1936: IN EXILE: Liberal Dominican Angel Morales organizing pro-Democracy meeting against Trujillo. DRAMATIZATION: Murder of exiled Interior Minister Sergio Bencosme. List of enemies of Santo Domingo (Trujillo) that have been killed.
Curated Video
David Pharaoh Asserts Indigenous Rights
Montaukett leader David Pharaoh fought for indigenous land rights – and established a lasting legacy as the founder of America’s first Montaukett school.
Easy Languages
Easy German: 6 common Mistakes Americans make in German
Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced...
The Guardian
From the Bronx to Yale: the power of high school 'speech'
High school students from Democracy Prep school in the South Bronx, New York, compete against young people across the US at a ‘speech’ competition at Yale University, a form of competitive acting. Last year’s champion, Stephen, is hoping...
PBS
Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance (feat. Princess Weekes)
Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...
History Hit
Maps That Made America: Catawba map
What is unique about this map and what does it represent? What was the goal behind this map? Maps That Made America, Part 2
Curated Video
Marsha P. Johnson: Transgender Activist
The story of transgender activist, Marsha P. Johnson, who dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ rights.
The Guardian
Writing wrongs: the pioneering New York prison program transforming lives
In the Bronx, the Prison Writes program provides therapeutic writing workshops for people trying to get back on their feet after incarceration. Humberto, 16, is trying to get back into school after a period in Rikers Island prison....