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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.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa
This is a four-part history documentary series presented by Gus Casely-Hayford, exploring the pre-colonial history of some of Africa's most important kingdoms.

Africa: The Story of a Continent
This is a documentary series hosted by Basil Davidson, presenting African history from prehistoric times to the mid-20th century.

Lost Kingdoms of Central America
This is a four-part BBC documentary series presented by Dr. Jago Cooper, exploring the rise and fall of the forgotten civilizations of Central America.

Cracking the Maya Code
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books.

Lost King of the Maya
This film takes viewers deep into the Central American rain forest to the resurrected ruins of Copan, a once majestic jewel of Mayan civilization which was inexplicably abandoned over a thousand years ago.

Lost Kingdoms of South America
This is a BBC documentary series presented by archaeologist Dr Jago Cooper, revealing the extraordinary history of some of South America's ancient civilizations.

Secrets of the Nazca Lines
Etched into the driest desert in the world, the mysterious lines and figures of Nazca in Southern Peru are invisible from the ground.

Machu Picchu Decoded
Deep in the Andean mountains lays a mysterious ruin named Machu Picchu. For 400 years it sat abandoned on its misty cliff, the quintessential lost city in the jungle.

The Lost Gods of Easter Island
This is a BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough, exploring the history of the civilization of remote Easter Island.

Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes
From the ancient lost city of Hattusas in modern Turkey to the smouldering summit of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna, the documentary takes the viewer on a dazzling voyage through the Mediterranean world of the 8th century BC.

Clash of the Gods
Clash of the Gods is a History Channel documentary series unlocking the hidden truth behind the ancient Greek and Norse Gods, monsters and heroes.

Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
This is a four-part documentary series hosted by Joanna Lumley, exploring Greece where western civilisation began; drama, democracy, language, science, philosophy and medicine all originated from here.

Treasures of the World - Taj Mahal and Borobudur
Taj Mahal - located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India - was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

The Story of India
This tells the 10,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent: the diversity of its peoples, cultures, religions, international relations and its struggle for freedom.