TED-Ed
The Life, Legacy, and Assassination of an African Revolutionary
The stormy political history of the African nation of Ghana provides the backdrop for a short video about Thomas Sankar, who in his four-year presidency, instituted changes that were adopted in other African nations, as well. Find out...
PBS
Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution
Articulate and determined, passionate about equal treatment for all Americans, James Baldwin was an early spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement. The short PBS video provides viewers with the opportunity to hear Baldwin share his ideas...
TED-Ed
Romance and Revolution: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
A short TEDEd video introduces viewers to the life and poetry of Pablo Neruda. The narrator not only shares details of Neruda's exploits in support of revolutionaries but also why his poetry is so popular even in translation.
C-SPAN
On This Day: Cuban Revolution
What was life like after the Cuban Revolution under the government of Fidel Castro? Historians consider the question by examining the firsthand accounts of people living there and old newsreels of the Batista regime ouster. A video from...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Iranian Hostage Crisis
The history behind the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis is long and complicated. The hostage crisis directly affected a presidential election, and it played into Cold War fears of a global crisis. Using video clips of an historian...
PBS
Cuban Exodus
A video spotlights former child refugees and their experience of leaving their home country, Cuba, to live in Florida for a safer life. While Fidel Castro reigned, many Cubans families and small children made the decision to leave,...
The School of Life
Political Theory - Thomas Hobbes
Obedience and Thomas Hobbes: two peas in a pod. Learners hear about these two concepts and more of Hobbes' political theory in an informative video. A variety of primary resources, drawings, and visual aids help convey the information.
Physics Girl
Should You Go to Mars? Ft. Bill Nye
Would you move to Mars? A video discussion explores the realities of traveling and living on Mars. Characteristics of the planet, its orbit, and revolutions provide key facts to help you make your decision.
TED-Ed
History vs. Che Guevara
Viewers decide whether revolutions should be judged by their ideals or their outcomes after watching a thought-provoking video. Focusing on the arguments in a trial of Che Guevara, high schoolers debate the scope of history as it relates...
Veritasium
4 Revolutionary Riddles
Can you solve these revolutionary riddles? Objects in revolutionary motion may seem to behave counterintuitively. The riddles in an episode of the Veritasium playlist highlight this counterintuitive nature.
Macat
An Introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
Can colonialism only be overthrown with the use of violence? A short video summarizes Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, which contends that because the act of colonialism is violent itself, the only way to change the system...
Macat
An Introduction to Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age Of Revolution
Discover the ways that the exploited class has influenced our modern lives with a short study of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789 - 1848. High schoolers discuss the Marxist perspective of how the Industrial...
Macat
An Introduction to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Change is not always best. Edmund Burke's pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France takes this perspective as he argues against the potential instability of upending the traditional government model in France. High schoolers...
Crash Course Kids
Orbits Are Odd
Are the other orbits taking place in the universe similar or different to Earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's orbit around Earth? This is the focus of a video that explains all different types of orbits out there, including black...
Crash Course Kids
Everything Revolves Around You
There are a couple of things that orbit Earth; satellites and our moon. But how is it that these objects don't crash into Earth? This is the focus of a video that explains how the gravitational pull of Earth on the moon and the velocity...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tyranny and Despotism
In this video, Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson talks to Sal about the Declaration of Independence. [9:53]