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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.

In Search of Myths and Heroes
Michael Wood explores four of the world's most famous myths: The Queen of Sheba, Shangri-La, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and king Arthur.

In Search of the Trojan War
Michael Wood examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

The Minoans
Bettany Hughes explores Crete, following the footsteps of famed archaeologists including Arthur Evans to find new insights into Minoan culture.

The Truth of Troy
It's one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. But is there any reality to the myth?

Helen of Troy
Bettany Hughes travels across the eastern Mediterranean to disentangle myth from reality and find the truth about the real Helen of Troy.

The Spartans
This is a Channel 4 documentary presented by Bettany Hughes, chronicling the rise and fall of the ancient Spartans.

Guge - The Lost Kingdom of Tibet
Located in one of the most inaccessible places on earth, Guge was once the home of one of Asia's most vibrant civilizations.

Lost Treasures of Tibet
Located in present-day Nepal, Mustang contains some of the last remaining relics of an almost vanished world of ancient Buddhist culture.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War
This is a collection of links to eBooks, audio books and films related to Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Ancient Warriors
This is a documentary series from the Discovery Channel, looking at the warrior groups and armies that shaped history.

Barbarians
This tells the story of four barbaric tribes - Goths, Mongols, Huns and Vikings - which once became powerful and fell again in the Middle Ages.

Terry Jones' Barbarians
This is a four-part TV documentary series presented by Terry Jones, challenging the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian.

When the Moors Ruled in Europe
Bettany Hughes traces the story of the mysterious and misunderstood Moors, the Islamic society that ruled in Spain for 700 years, but whose legacy was virtually erased from Western history.

Cities and Life: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
This explores the causes that destroyed the one civilization of pluralism and interfaith cooperation that for a few centuries lit the Dark Ages in Medieval Europe.

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The story of the Medici is an epic drama that weaves the descendants of one Tuscan family with momentous cultural and political turning points.