Curated Video
Starving Time
Dr. Forrester tells about Pocahontas, Captain John Smith, and Captain John Rolfe.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Jamestown, Williamsburg, & Yorktown
U.S. military personnel take a tour of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, VA in the 1960's, viewing the major attractions and learning the history of these colonial cities and their involvement during the Revolutionary War.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Old Point Comfort
Old Point Comfort was chosen by Captain John Smith as a fortification to protect the entrance to the James River and the colony at Jamestown, Virginia. [2:00]
PBS
Pbs Teachers:death at Jamestown: Video Clip C 2
Learn how forensic scientists use clues from a skeleton found in the fort as well as other physical and chemical evidence to make conclusions about the individual's life and death. Discover what can be learned from tooth enamel.
Virginia Trekkers
Virginia Trekkers: Podcast 9: Jamestown
The viewers of this video podcast will see what life was like for the native Powhatan Indians before the arrival of settlers, about the ship on which the settlers came to Jamestown, and what Jamestown colony was like. Produced by teachers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jamestown the Impact of Tobacco
An overview of the Anglo-Powhattan Wars and John Rolfe's discovery of tobacco as the perfect crop for the Virginia colony and the impact tobacco will have on the Virginia colony.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Jamestown Settlement
A short, animated presentation of the ship landing and the building of Jamestown - the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Other
Jamestown Rediscovery: Statue of John Smith
Brief biographical information about John Smith. Includes details about his personality and a photograph of a statue erected in his honor in 1909.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Jamestown Colony
Watch the story of the Jamestown colony that almost didn't survive! Disease, starvation, and attacks by Indian tribes almost brought the colony to its knees. But, they had one saving grace - tobacco! [3:21]