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Asia

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Asian people in lab coats, helmets, and suits stand in front of backdrop illustrated with lab equipment, technological devices, and financial symbols.
All About the Holidays
Episode 57
2 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person wearing khaki hat and shirt holding a tool. Low building and vehicle in background. Caption: this is where Thao works -- clearing land mines.
The Soul Of Southeast Asia
Episode 5
49 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Ancient, decrepit white stone building covered in moss with the roots of a large tree coming down over 1 of the walls. Caption. "Angkor Wat is a legacy of the mighty King Suryavarman the Second."
Around the World
Episode 3
2 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Palms tree, grass, and other greenery surrounds a large, multi-story building with a gray pitched roof and many windows. The sky is blue with lots of clouds. Caption. "Sabah was known as British North Borneo."
Around the World
Episode 12
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Around the World
Episode 9
2 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small statue in a pond in a park with a many modern skyscrapers in the background. Caption. "K, L considers itself a very forward-thinking."
Around the World
Episode 26
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Elaborate casket draped in gold and jewels is on display against a red curtain backdrop. Caption. "The casket holding the tooth is a bell-shaped stupa."
Around the World
Episode 43
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of a segment of the Great Wall of China with brown foliage on either side. Caption. "Work began on the Great Wall of China around 220 B, C."
Around the World
Episode 5
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Around the World
Episode 13
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing hat and casual jacket crouches down. Caption. That has reflected them in manner and style.
24 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
A construction sight beside a water body. Caption: In an attempt to save the threatened Aral Sea.
Butterfly Effect
Season 2 / Ep 13
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Animation of a silhouetted man on horseback with bow and spear watching a distant village burn, billows of smoke floating up into the night sky. Caption. The Mongols are feared everywhere.
Butterfly Effect
Season 1 / Ep 7
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People stand on and around a large pile of cut grass with an unmotorized vehicle next to it. Caption: In China, young Mekong is called Lancang.
The Soul Of Southeast Asia
Episode 1
49 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Thousands of North Korean soldiers standing in formation in perfectly straight lines. Caption. Narrator. In the late 1990s, a series of unprecedented floods.
51 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Sculpture of a dragon made from stone inlaid on a flat surface. Caption: It can create life, but it can also destroy it,
The Soul Of Southeast Asia
Episode 4
49 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Senior man wearing glasses faces camera, surrounded by models of human skulls and full skeleton in background. Title card below reads, "Milford Wolpoff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor". Caption. A new species, a new line.
10 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Small boats with people on the water at sunset. Caption: This way of life has been around for a long time.
The Soul Of Southeast Asia
Episode 2
49 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Person walking carries large baskets tied together with rope. 3 baskets are stacked and strapped onto the top of a pack on the person's back.
Children Of The World
Episode 3
14 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Camera of a woman sitting in the rear seat of a car looks at camera with a surprised expression. Caption. I feel I have to go back.
33 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Boy sits on the floor drinking from a plastic cup. 2 people sit on a hand-built, rustic platform bed behind him. 1 girl smiles and the other has a cloth covering her. Caption. Sound of baby crying.
Children Of The World
Episode 2
15 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Title card on rusty light brown background reads, "Afro-Eurasia is a term used to describe the land masses of Africa and Eurasia together with the adjacent islands as 1 continent."
Social Studies Video Vocab
Episode 7
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Still frame of a verdant courtyard with a person partially obscured behind a beige column. Caption. It looks like an uncomplicated instrument.
I Love Music!
Episode 28
7 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 7
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Digital illustration of diverse people exchanging goods for money in a crowded square. Caption. That it formed a new base of power for the Roman Empire.
The Time Compass
Episode 3
19 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup view of an enormous brown tree trunk with smaller vines growing up it, with a canopy of trees visible in the background.
World Heritage
Episode 21
25 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digital map of Uzbekistan amongst surrounding countries, with 3 red dots marking the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent. Caption. There are other oasis towns in Uzbekistan.
World Heritage
Episode 8
24 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon map of the state of Florida and surrounding islands. Caption. With a total area of 5900 square kilometers.
World Heritage
Episode 14
24 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Simplified digital map of the city of Istanbul, Turkey on a strip of land separating the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. A larger map of Turkey and surrounding countries is darker in the background.
World Heritage
Episode 12
24 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young Thai woman reaches out over a pile of vegetables in a market setting. She smiles and holds a plastic produce bag in her hands. Caption. Eggplant, cucumbers, squash, coriander.
There Is No Food Like My Food
Season 0 / Ep 9
13 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Low shot looking up at a person walking a tightrope line while holding a balancing pole at their chest. In the background, a multi-story building towers above. Caption. I am part of those reasons too, I guess.
This Is My World
Episode 2
56 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Child sits on his knees watching a monkey who is crouching over nearby. Also in view are 2 people's legs and a collection of sundry items. Caption. I'm worried people will be afraid of him.
This Is My World
Episode 1
57 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of a muddy river running through a village. A barge floats on the river and smaller boats are docked. Lush green fields grow in the background.
Children Of The World
Episode 7
13 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of India and Asia to the north. A line of mountains separates the two. Caption: giving birth to the towering Himalayas.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 1 / Ep 4
51 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Side view of a man and woman with dark hair inside a dimly lit ornate building looking up. Several marble pillars on shiny floors are visible behind them. Caption. In June 1923, the neoclassical H, S, B, C building was completed.
Wall Street
Episode 10
28 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Illustration of explorer Ferdinand Magellan leaning over a desk writing in a large book with his right hand. He is looking at a golden ball that he's holding up with his left hand. Caption. Magellan was born to a noble Portuguese family around 1480.
World Explorers
Episode 12
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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