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World War 2 Overview
World War 2 Overview - This monumental war is still felt throughout the world. In our Overview video you will learn about the allied and axis powers and how each country got involved. You will learn about the major battles of the war and...
History Bombs
History of World War 2 (in One Take) | History Bombs
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History Hit
Africa And War: African porters and carriers
The third art piece is a multimedia performance, aims to tell the story of the over a million African porters and carriers who served British, French, and German forces during the first world war. Also, learn the importance of each of...
TED-Ed
The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney
Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece, also called "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," has been burned, forged, and raided in three different wars. It is, in fact, the world's most stolen artwork— and is considered one of the...
The Great War
Capturing the Horrors - The Art of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
The beginning of the 20th century saw rapid changes to the understanding of the fine arts and the First World War was a big catalyst for all the new art movements of Modernity like Cubism, Expressionism or Impressionism. Countless...
The Art Assignment
Cases for Political Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we explore some of the most powerful artworks ever made, making the case for political art one work at a time. Pablo Picasso's Guernica, Kathe Kollwitz's prints, Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, Iri and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The art forger who tricked the Nazis
It was one of the strangest trials in Dutch history. The defendant in a 1947 case was an art forger who had counterfeited millions of dollars worth of paintings. But he wasn’t arguing his innocence— in fact, his life depended on proving...
Schooling Online
Art Spiegelman's Maus - Volume 2, Chapter 1 Summary
When Vladek’s second wife leaves him, Art and Françoise go to stay with him. Art still finds it hard to get along with his father, but he continues recording his story. It’s 1944 and Vladek and Anja have been separated into different...
Schooling Online
Art Spiegelman's Maus - Volume 1, Prologue and Chapters 1-2 Summary
Art Spiegelman has always wanted to create a graphic memoir of his parents’ story of love and survival during The Holocaust. So, he sits down with his father, Vladek, to hear what it was like as a Polish Jew living under Nazi...
Curated Video
Ghost Army
The WWII 23rd Headquarters Special Troops – otherwise known as the Ghost Army – was a top secret tactical deception unit deployed by the US Army during the Second World War to fool the enemy by any means necessary.
Curated Video
Shostakovich - why is he famous? - The arts past and present (2/6)
Shostakovich - why is he famous? As World War II swept through Europe, a young Russian composer set out to win the fight with his piano. But is it possible that a piece of music was so powerful it actually ended the Siege of Leningrad?...
Curated Video
What is shell shock? – Understanding Shell Shock (2/4)
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IT'S HISTORY
The Chinese Civil War - Blood for Unity l HISTORY OF CHINA
After the fall of the Qing dynasty China fell apart and both, forces loyal to Chiang Kais-shek's National Kuomintang Party and as Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China, fought to rule the country. This bloody struggle would ultimately...
IT'S HISTORY
X-Men, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings - Cold War Culture I THE COLD WAR
What do Wolverine, Mr. Spock and Gandalf have in common? Their creators were all children of the Cold War during which arts and culture underwent a fundamental change. Comics, Science Fiction and Fantasy were born and became accepted...
Sotheby's
60-Second Gallery: Six Decades of Abstract Art
Copy: Abstraction became the dominant style of art after World War II. Since then, artists have proved the possibilities are endless. Six works from the upcoming Contemporary Curated auction in New York on 2 March chart the endless...
Curated Video
The Secret Service
They’re the shadowy agents who keep the President safe – but what is the Secret Service and why was it formed?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Peggy Sheehy - WoW in School The Hero's Journey
After a twenty-five year career as a professional vocalist, Peggy Sheehy received a BS in Musical Performance and Education from Empire State University. She began teaching in 1997 at Mt. Sinai Elementary School in Mt....
Institute of Art and Ideas
Are nations inevitably a source of conflict?
From the Olympics to the UN we celebrate national identity and culture. Yet nations are typically the source of warfare and conflict. Would we be better to get rid of nations and borders in favour of a wider, ultimately global,...
MinuteEarth
How Birds Almost Escalated The Cold War
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Then & Now
The Spanish Civil War & Literature: Orwell, Auden, Eliot and Hemingway
In this video, I look at how the Spanish Civil War shaped the literature of the modernist movement. George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway both visited Spain during the war, and T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden asked questions about a poet's duty...
Curated Video
Mad About a Bomb - The Atom Bomb and Popular Culture (2/4)
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Curated Video
Troy Story: The Odyssey (2/2)
The Odyssey is a major Ancient Greek epic poem. It was written by Homer in Mycenaean Greece, around the 8th century BC. The hero of the poem is Odysseus (or Ulysses, in Latin). It's about Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after...
Curated Video
Troy Story: The Iliad (1/2)
The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Greek literature, written by Homer in the 8th century BC. It is an epic poem, with 24 chapters, based on the attack on Troy by the Mycenaeans. The poem includes early Greek myths and legends. The...