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Stonewall Forever: Find and Preserve the Stories of Stonewall
Were you or someone you know involved in the Stonewall Riots or the early years of the LGBTQ rights movement? Help spread the word or add your piece of history at https://stonewallforever.org/ ... Stonewall Forever is a project to find,...
Jam Campus
THE SILK ROAD SONG (Featuring Mr. Baildon)
What do you know about Ancient China? Check out our #HistoryMonth learning song about the silk road, a trade route used for centuries to transport goods from China to Eastern Europe. The idea and lyrics for this song were written by my...
Tate
Browsing the International Art Market with Sally Phillips | Unlock Art | Tate
From Tutankhamen to the ancient Greeks, the church to the Medici's, there's a long history of shopping for art. Comedian Sally Phillips explains the bulk-buys and the beheading - then explores the international art fair circuit to find...
Curated Video
Conversations in Context: Media 🎥 Hosted by Yoonj Kim | Smithsonian Channel
In 1960, Chinese-American Hollywood star Anna May Wong appeared in the last film of a long Hollywood career–far too much of it spent battling discrimination and roles that typecast Asian American actors in a negative light. Today, a new...
Tom Scott
The Radioactive Beach In New York
Check out BrainCraft! https://www.youtube.com/braincraft - start with the Growth Mindset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxv_FHrRYQw or lucid dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5qUr0enMGE • Deep in Brooklyn there's a beach you...
The Great War
A Fate Worse Than Death - Disfigured Veterans of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
Filmed at Romagne 14-18 museum: http://romagne14-18.com Plastic and reconstructive surgery saw rapid development during World War 1. Modern medical care and better equipment increased the chances of survival for the soldiers. But these...
Curated Video
How stop motion animation began
Insect adultery was the start of an animation revolution. Almanac Hollywouldn't is our miniseries on big changes to movies that came from outside Hollywood. Watch all of the episodes right here on YouTube. Episode 1:...
The Cynical Historian
Hostiles | Based on a True Story
The epic western is back! Hostiles is great, but with one glaring and easily fixed flaw. This movie explores violence and hate inherent in the American West, in a way that no film has attempted in a long time. It is perfectly ambiguous,...
The Cynical Historian
Hacksaw Ridge | Based on a True Story
Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 biographical war drama film about the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who was a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refusing to carry or use a firearm or weapons of any...
The Cynical Historian
Race | Based on a True Story
Race was a movie that came out simply to capitalize on the Rio Olympics, but it is an important story to take into account. It shows some problems in the way this movie has some of your bog-standard tropes associated with sports movies....
The Cynical Historian
Spartacus | Based on a True Story
Today, let’s look at a cinema classic - the 1960 film Spartacus. It has a great deal of problems historically. It is a great movie, but really has no bearing the historical reality....
The Cynical Historian
The Revenant | Based on a True Story
This one’s been a long time coming. It was worth the wait. Today I’m taking on The Revenant. I did a lot of research on this one, so let’s take our time and dig deep. By the end of this, I hope no one who watches this can take this movie...
The Cynical Historian
Charlie Wilson's War | Based on a True Story
The movie Charlie Wilson’s War gets its own title incorrect. It is about something that was not so much Wilson’s War, so much as Reagan’s War, but the movie simply wants to deny that altogether....
The Cynical Historian
300 | Based on a True Story
Here is another episode of 'Based on a True Story.' This time it is 300 and how it is based on the battle of Thermopylae. It is a great film with a great many historically innacurate plot points....
Curated Video
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
An exhibition of literature and music – from the great African empires of the Middle Ages to the cultural dynamism of West Africa today. Fascinating stories from the region’s 17 nations show how West Africans have harnessed the power of...
Tate
The World Goes Pop with Alan Cumming | Unlock Art | Tate
Actor Alan Cumming presents a quick fire guide to Pop Art. From the streets of Manhattan, Alan Cumming whips through the history of Pop Art in America and Britain, from Andy Warhol's soup cans to Peter Blake's blue jeans. Unlock Art is...
The Royal Institution
Chasing Eclipses - with Frank Close
Frank Close takes us on a journey of eclipse hunting, weaving in history and science. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/3k5R3_b4eDU Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe On 21 August, over 100 million people...
The Royal Institution
Postcard from Baikonur: The World’s First Spaceport
A look at the history and habitat of the inhospitable home of space travel: Baikonur Cosmodrome. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Part of A Place Called Space, our 2015 advent calendar:...
Curated Video
The Wonderful World of Worms
Earthworms & leeches, parasitic nematodes, bristle worms, velvet worms, bobbit worms! Dr. Anna J. Phillips, Curator of Parasitic Worms and Protozoa at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took us back into the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Martha Tyson & Mrs. Emily Montague
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
The Cynical Historian
The Imitation Game | Based on a True Story
This is now going to be a series of videos checking historical movies against the real deal. The name of the game is historical accuracy, and this time it's the Imitation Game (2014). Considering its first frame states "based on a true...
The Cynical Historian
12 Years a Slave | Based on a True Story
The venerable movie, 12 Years a Slave, is based off of the 1853 memoir of the same name. Despite that, this movie still gets so much incorrect. Here's another Based on a True Story where Hollywood just cannot grasp its own material....
The Cynical Historian
Mary Queen of Scots | Based on a True Story
Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this episode. Goto https://skl.sh/thecynicalhistorian3 to get a 2-month free trial. Mary Queen of Scots is a story that’s been told basically too often. This rendition is pretty admirable, especially...
The Guardian
Ukraine before this war: a culture on screen
The Guardian is celebrating Ukrainian cinema with a specially curated selection of documentaries, made before the current war. Presented in collaboration with the Kyiv-based DocuDays UA film festival, these award-winning movies offer...
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