PBS
How Abraham Lincoln Shaped American Politics, Popular Culture (Feb. 20, 2012)
On this Presidents' Day, Hari Sreenivasan and historian Richard Norton Smith discuss President Lincoln's influence on American politics and popular culture as they tour the Ford's Theatre's new Center for Education and Leadership...
Curated Video
Beijing district in 'wartime mode' amid fresh coronavirus cases
Beijing closes city’s largest wholesale food market after detecting seven locally transmitted cases over two days.
Curated Video
Julia Stockton Rush: Love and Family Amid War
Julia Stockton Rush's letters offer a unique glimpse into the lives of women during the American Revolution, capturing a nation's birth from a female perspective.
Curated Video
Korematsu v. United States: Was Internment Legal?
Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese Americans during WWII as a result of Executive...
Curated Video
Martha Gellhorn: The War Correspondent who Covered D-Day
One of the United States’ finest war correspondents, Martha Gellhorn battled sexism and misogyny to report on the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
Curated Video
Animal War Heroes
Animals aren’t just cute – during times of war, they’ve proven to be immensely useful. Some have even been awarded with prestigious medals for helping to save lives.
Curated Video
The 442nd: The Most Decorated Regiment of the Second World War
Despite the racism they faced, the bravery and heroism of the Japanese American 442nd Regiment Combat Team made them one of the most decorated units in United States history.
The March of Time
1940s: SOUTH AFRICA EXPORTS: VS Claw dropping sugarcane onto large conveyor belt, feeding sugar canes into machine. INT VS Factory workers packing oranges into boxes, male workers loading cargo w/ crates of oranges. Fruit, crops, exporting
MOT 1940s^ SOUTH AFRICA EXPORTS: VS Claw dropping sugarcane onto large conveyor belt, feeding sugar canes into machine. INT VS Factory workers packing oranges into boxes, male workers loading cargo w/ crates of oranges. Fruit, crops,...
Curated Video
Joe Biden announces huge increase in COVID-19 vaccine purchases
U.S. president says 200 million more vaccine doses have been ordered, potentially enough to inoculate every American by the end of this summer.
Curated Video
97-year-old British veteran recounts end of WWII
Tommy Parkinson, a 97-year-old British army veteran, was in Italy when the Second World War ended. He shares his wartime experience, including falling in love, on the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.
Curated Video
On the Ledge: David Eby talks tough about B.C.'s response to Trump's tariff threat
Katie DeRosa and Justine Hunter join us for the On the Ledge Panel to discuss the week in politics.
Bridgeman Arts
Spitfires and biplanes
Pilots flying Spitfires in South Africa and biplanes in Brooklands, England
Bridgeman Arts
Forced Labour, prisoners of war and rationing, WWI
Forced Labour, prisoners of war and rationing, WWI
Curated Video
Pres. Biden to Award His First Medal of Honor to Korean War Vet
Retired Col. Ralph Puckett Jr. will receive the nation's most prestigious military honor for his acts during the Korean War.
Bloomberg
Trump Using Emergency Powers for Wall Won't Work, Ex-DHS Sec. Johnson Says
Jan.07 -- Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security Secretary under President Barack Obama, discusses President Donald Trump possibly using his national emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and his views on the partial...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Wartime Reuse How-Tos
London, England / Building with sign above entrance 'The Wartime Layette' / Layette workers show mothers how to make a bassinet out of chairs and burlap bags / a baby is placed inside burlap bag / a woman demonstrates how to use a darner...
Bloomberg
Could 'Helicopter Money' Help the U.S. Economy?
April 27 -- Dominic Konstam, Deutsche Bank's global head of rates, comments on the case for "helicopter money." He speaks with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Scarlet Fu on "What'd You Miss?"
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Berlin film fest gripped by Clooney craze
CLEAN : Berlin film fest gripped by Clooney craze
Sky News
Memorial To Honor WWII 'Guinea Pig Club' Members - Interview with member Sandy Saunders
CLEAN: A memorial honoring injured servicemen who underwent experimental plastic surgery during World War Two has been unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh. The so-called 'Guinea Pig Club' was formed in 1941, and was made up of men who...
Curated Video
Biden Administration Unveils COVID Response Strategy
President Biden has unveiled his administration's plan to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bloomberg
Ewen Cameron Watt: Fed to Move Down Long-Term Dots
Sept. 21 -- Ewen Cameron Watt, senior director at BlackRock Investment Institute, previews today's Federal Reserve interest rate decision and expected changes to the Fed's dot plot. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Curated Video
White House on progress against IS
A special envoy to the US-led military coalition against the Islamic State group said on Tuesday that three leaders of the group in Raqqa had been killed in air strikes.Brett McGurk named the three as Salah Gourmat, Sammy Djedou and...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Berlin film fest gripped by Clooney craze
The Berlin film festival gives an enthusiastic reception to George Clooney, director of and actor in Monuments Men, also starring Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman and Jean Dujardin, and in the only female lead role Cate Blanchett,...