Crash Course
Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212
In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut? - Mia Nacamulli
Kurt Vonnegut found the tidy, satisfying arcs of many stories at odds with reality, and he set out to explore the ambiguity between good and bad fortune in his own novels. He tried to make sense of human behavior by studying the shapes...
Crash Course
PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Crash Course Literature 213
In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was published, some of the crude language in the book caused controversy. We quote one mildly controversial line in...
Curated Video
Exploring the Potential of Salamander Genes: A Pathway to Regrowing Lost Limbs?
This video highlights the devastating impact of land mines in Afghanistan and the potential for salamander genes to inspire new treatments for humans to regrow lost or damaged tissue. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany...
The Guardian
Putin's Russia: from KGB agent to Kremlin operator
As Vladimir Putin wages a bloody and unrelenting war in Ukraine, Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding examines Putin's unlikely path to the Russian presidency. From his humble beginnings in St Petersburg to his mysterious and...
The Telegraph
Bomber Harris was a war hero not a war criminal
Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris has been compared to Stalin, Pol Pot and even Hitler. However author Jeremy Black defends Harris against accusations of committing war crimes via his carpet-bombing strategy in the latest episode of History Defended.
Epic History TV
Napoleon 1813: The Road to Leipzig
In 1813, following his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon faced a desperate battle to save his empire. His enemies were gaining in strength, as Prussia and Sweden joined the Sixth Coalition against him, while Russian armies advanced...
Easy Languages
Easy German: Dresden
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...
Easy Languages
Easy German: Interesting Places
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...
Curated Video
SYND 11-2-70 FLASHBACK TO WW2 DRESDEN BOMBING
Library scenes shot February 13th 14th 1945 and subsequent weeks of day and night bombing, devastation, early rebuilding
1 ms British Royal Airforce bombers
2 ms night aerials bombs dropped on Dresden
3 gv firemen fight burning buildings...
Curated Video
Thousands of neo-Nazis and their left-wing opponents protested on Saturday in Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of World War II (Feb. 13)
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Scuffles mark Dresden anniversary
CAPTION: Thousands of neo-Nazis and their left-wing opponents protested on Saturday in Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of World War II (Feb....
Curated Video
Germany - Dresden Commemorative Ceremony
Britain and Germany on Monday (13/2) marked the 50th anniversary
of the bombing of Dresden with a wreath-laying ceremony at the
Heidefriedhof cemetery where many of the 35,000 people killed
by allied bombs and resulting fires lie. The...
Curated Video
Germany - Dresden Commemorative Ceremony
Britain and Germany on Monday (13/2) mark the 50th anniversary of
the bombing of Dresden with a wreath-laying ceremony in the German
city where 35,000 people were killed by allied bombs and the
firestorm they caused.On Sunday night...
Curated Video
SYND 11-2-70 DRESDEN CITY SCENES
Scenes of rebuilt city with some buildings that survived the British bombing.
1. ws Altmarkt square2. ms sign Altmarkt3. ms street sign4. ms refaced buildings pan to new buildings5. ms bookshop6. ms people look at poster in window...
Curated Video
Aerials of floods near Dresden
Dresden
1. Various aerials of river
2. Flooded skyline in Dresden
Gholis
3. Flooded levee
4. Houses underwater
5. Various of buildings underwater
Tillnitz
6. Flooded castle with stairs submerged in water
7. Flooded inner courtyard
8....
Curated Video
CAN 310 PRESIDENT TITO TRAVELS TO DRESDEN
President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, leaves Bering and travels on to Dresden
1. ms people talking in a train station (including Tito's wife)
2. bs President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, gets onto the train
3. mcu Tito and his...
Curated Video
Latest on floods around Dresden
Freital
1. Pan across swollen River Elbe, debris on either side
2. Destroyed car in foreground, house dislodged by flood waters tilting into river in background
3. Close up tilted house
4. Debris in foreground, ladies sitting on...
Curated Video
Leftists clash with police at far-right protest
1. Wide of protesters marching against planned far-right march
2. Wide of protesters scuffling with police
3. Wide of police line in front of protesters
4. Protesters running towards police, changing direction and running back as police...
Curated Video
France - How A Snow Machine, Bangladesh - Floods, Germany - Flooding In Dresden, Usa - Hurricane Katrina
France - How a snow machine is combating the warm winter in the French Alps
French Alps - recent
Global warming poses a serious threat to Alpine ski resorts and the regional economies that depend on them according to a recent report by...
Curated Video
CAN443 DRESDEN RECONSTRUCTION
Footage documenting the reconstruction of Dresden following World War Two. File footage of Red army entering Dresden in 1945.
Contains file footage, third party copyright clearance may be needed.
1. vs file footage from 1945 as Soviet...
Curated Video
CAN442 BACKGROUND FILM OF THE BOMBING AND REBUILDING OF THE CITY OF DRESDEN
Background film containing file footage showing the bombing of Dresden during the Second World War; 95 percent of the city was bombed and recent footage of the city re-built.
1. cu title Lied Einer Duetschen Mutter (The Song of the...
Curated Video
CAN561 YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT TITO TRAVELS TO DRESDEN WITH STOPH
President Josip Broz Tito of yugoslavia and his wife Jovanka are on tour of Eastern Europe. Seen leaving Berlin, they travel on to Dresden, accompanied by East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, where they tour an art gallery.
1. ms...
Curated Video
USA: DR BLOBEL WINS NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE (2)
English/Nat
The Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded Monday to Dr. Guenter Blobel of The Rockefeller University in New York City. Blobel who is 63 and a native of Germany, was awarded the prize for his research on proteins -- research...
Curated Video
Treehouse hotel deep in German forest
A childhood dream for many perhaps - a hotel in Germany offers its guests the opportunity to stay in a treehouse.
The treehouses come equipped with bathrooms and start at 180 euro (US$240) per night.
Tucked away in a forest in east...