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Learn Through Videos: History

This is a collection of links to educational videos helpful for understanding history, which are made for a general audience, such as documentary films. Throughout human history, numerous civilizations and cultures appeared and disappeared. Some civilizations like Chinese civilization has survived, while most of them vanished into history. From prehistoric times - through Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution and the two World Wars - to the present, the videos listed in this collection makes us look at important moments and events in human history.

Ancient Inventions
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Terry Jones, looking at great inventions of the ancient world and their influences in our modern world.

Secrets of Lost Empires
This contains four episodes of the NOVA's TV series, Secrets of Lost Empires, which attempts to reveal secrets of ancient architects and engineers.

Ancient Discoveries (Season 3)
Ancient Discoveries (Season 3) features technologies and inventions from the ancient Greece, Egypt, China and the East, such as ancient cars, planes, robots and weapons.

Art of the Western World
This is a documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings.

Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark
This is a BBC documentary series written and presented by Kenneth Clark, outlining the history of Western art, architecture, and philosophy since the Dark Ages.

How Art Made the World
This documentary series looks at why humans developed imagery or visual art and how visual art has influenced society.

The Western Tradition
This presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands - religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art.

Guns, Germs and Steel
This is a three-part documentary series presented by Jared Diamond trying to answer the biggest question of world history - Why is the world so unequal?

Crusades
This is a four-part documentary series presented by Terry Jones, recounting the Crusades by exploring the lives of pivotal figures, the technology and the politics of the era.

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross
This is a two-part History Channel documentary series presenting the epic battle between two Middle Age superpowers: the Christian Crusaders and the Muslims.

The Silk Road
This documentary series explores China's historical sites, villages, religions and cultures along the Silk Road.

The Silk Road II
This is a eighteen-part documentary series produced by Japan's NHK, exploring the western reaches of the Silk Road beyond China and Mongolia, eventually arriving in historic old Rome.

Marco Polo: Journey to the East
This presents a biographical introduction of the Venetian adventurer and trader - Marco Polo - and retraces his journeys to the East through historic re-enactments.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Terry Jones, looking at the Medieval world with the intent of finding out what it was really like.

Inside the Medieval Mind
This is a BBC documentary series presented by Professor Robert Bartlett, investigating the intellectual landscape of the medieval world.