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World War II

Within History
4 people, 3 men and 1 woman, stand next to each other on a city street looking off in one direction.
56 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of the midsection of a woman with long, dark hair. Caption. Sarah was also the first American Indian.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 7
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in a black Nazi uniform stands in front and addresses another man seated at a desk. Caption. But not all are as quick as you, even in the Party.
1 hours 44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Men in green military fatigues and helmets run towards camera with rifles in hands and waves crashing behind them. Caption. The men are left with virtually no cover on the beach.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 10
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a person front loading a Civil War-era cannon attached to a wheel. Caption. Without accepting the eager pool of black volunteers.
19 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Animation of a battleship at Dunkirk with soldiers onboard. Caption. And will determine the course of the Second World War.
Butterfly Effect
Season 2 / Ep 9
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Animation of World War 2 Soviet commanders speaking in front of a battlefield map to a crowded room of officers. Caption. To fortify the Kursk region and to wait.
Butterfly Effect
Season 3 / Ep 13
26 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital map titled "Battle of Iwo Jima" with 3 red arrows pointing from the Pacific Northwest towards Japan and its occupied territories.
Command Decisions
Episode 7
20 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digital map titled "Battle of Stalingrad." Germany and its occupied territories are green with red swastikas. The U, S, S, R is yellow with 2 red stars with yellow arrows pointing towards Germany's eastern fronts.
Command Decisions
Episode 10
20 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digital map titled "Battle of the Bulge." France, Belgium, and Paris are yellow. Blue rectangles appear on German border with 2 blue stars in France and another in Belgium. Germany and occupied northern Italy are red and labeled, "Germany." Swastikas are visible north of Italy and in Germany near eastern Belgium.
Command Decisions
Episode 11
20 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of military soldiers walking up a hill, tanks and trucks in the distance. Caption. Are ashore all along the coast of Normandy.
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Still image from: Desmond Doss: The Medic Who Fought a War Without a Weapon
15 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Computer image compares the features of 2 war planes. The P-51C Mustang has speed and maneuverability. The FW-190 has durability and armament. Caption. But the FW-190 is more rugged and has better armament.
45 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Girl seated next to a small window and talking to a teenage boy. Caption. How long have you been keeping a diary?
59 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white military profile shot of George Herbert Walker Bush. Caption. For now, there was a war to fight... and win.
46 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white frame of a WW2 US Army Japanese American soldier standing below a crouching White US Army soldier. Caption. I want to see him the minute he gets back.
1 hours 30 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Senior man sits beside a young boy in a hospital bed. Caption. Can't I come home with you, Mr. Tom?
1 hours 27 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Black and white frame shows a middle-aged man in a white shirt and dark vest leaning to one side and looking down. Caption. You were born in Wurttemberg and I in Paris. But that doesn't stop us from being pals.
1 hours 53 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Senior woman faces camera and looks slightly down as if participating in a recorded interview. Title card identifies her as Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Interviewed in 1997. Caption. You know how to run an adding machine.
Great Unsung Women of Computing
Episode 1
19 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color photo of Adolf Hitler standing in a black convertible raising one hand in a seig heil a large crowd of people in the background.
54 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: How the Mafia Collaborated With the U.S. Military in World War II
10 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of men wearing dress military clothing with plumed hats riding horses. Caption. Militarism, wars of conquest.
19 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Joseph Stalin: Leader of the Soviet Union (1878-1953)
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Senior man with white hair and glasses crosses arms and parts lips in mid-speech. Caption. That people have of the place.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 9
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white illustration of Godzilla baring its teeth and gripping an object. The word, "Kreeeonk!" cuts diagonally across the bottom right corner.
Monstrum
Season 1 / Ep 9
7 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Inside a museum with white walls and pillars. Several different types of aircraft hang from the ceiling on display, including a large passenger jet with an old United Airlines logo on the side.
Museum Access
Season 1 / Ep 1
28 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large gray World War 2 aircraft carrier sits at dock on a sunny day with calm waters. Multiple airplanes are visible on its deck.
Museum Access
Season 2 / Ep 8
28 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A person opens the door of a 2-story building with white metal siding and green beams and roof. A sign at the top reads, "The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History." There's a tower with a large model of an atom to one side.
Museum Access
Season 3 / Ep 8
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small silver plane with a front propeller and a sealed cockpit sits outside a large warehouse. Text on the plane reads, "Toulouse Nuts."
Museum Access
Season 2 / Ep 1
28 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of 4 military soldiers walking through rocky terrain. Caption. And then three other code talkers were wounded.
50 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white image of woman walking arm and arm with 2 men. Caption. She's troubled and struggles with that.
1 hours 5 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Sepia photo of teenage girl from movie, One Survivor Remembers. Caption. And it was sort of a very, very special, memorable day.
41 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler
9 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of a sinking battleship. Caption. Eighteen other ships are sunk.
11 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white image of rows of men in suits looking down, some at papers. Long desk in front is labeled with the names of various countries. Caption. The U, N brokered frequent truces.
Search For Destiny: The Middle East
Episode 2
52 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Title card on rusty light brown background reads, "World War 2 was a military conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved 2 alliances that opposed each other."
Social Studies Video Vocab
Episode 13
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Black and white photo of a large war ship labeled, "U, S 282." Spanish caption. Con la participación de los Estados Unidos en la guerra.
Social Studies Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 13
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Black and white photo of a smiling senior woman gazing into the distance. Title card reads, "Surviving Birkenau, The Dr. Susan Spatz story."
1 hours 10 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
World War 2 map of the Philippines showing the islands of Corregidor, Luzon, Mindoro and Leyte. A red dot for the capital, Manilla, appears on Luzon. A U, S, flag image appears over southern islands. Text on screen reads, "Philippines."
Talking Maps
Episode 2
14 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
2 people stand on a path lined with weathered stone buildings. Title card reads, "Interactive Live Tours Using Real-time Guides in V, R and A, R."
Teen Kids News
Episode 1828
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white image with bird's eye view of figures in white milling about a field. Caption. In India, the Crown could not maintain its respect.
100 Years, 100 Events
Episode 4
1 hours 31 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Mount Everest covered in patches of snow with fluffy clouds and blue sky in background. Caption. The 29th of May, the day of reaching the top."
100 Years, 100 Events
Episode 6
1 hours 22 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The 6-Year-Old Red Army Lieutenant of WW2 (Youngest Soldier of the War)
8 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: The Americans That Fought For Germany in World War II
8 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white illustration of words in chalk-like font printed on gray background. Caption. Behind everything bad that happened in the world.
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white print of Anne Frank's portrait next to an excerpt from her diary. There is a square grid overlay and red markings over her portrait.
23 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Group of Pacific Islander children. 1 of the older girls wears an American flag bandana on her head and holds a baby to her chest.
59 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The One-Eyed Scout Who Liberated a Whole Town by Himself
10 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Frame of 2 White officers with 3 White soldiers behind in Nazi uniforms. Higher ranking officer is speaking to other officer while pointing forward.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man in a cowboy hat standing next to a black horse with luggage tied onto its saddle Caption. We'll keep it on till dark, I guess.
1 hours 21 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Still image from: The Silent Soldier and the Portrait
55 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The Warsaw Pact: Formation of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Sophia Loren and teenage girl standing. Sophia cradles the head of the girl. Both have expressions of fear.
1 hour 41 minutes
Grade Level: 12 -
Still image from: Uniform of the American G.I. on D-Day
6 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Men in military uniform sit amongst civilians in a crowd of people. Caption. Man 2 as narrator. That at Iwo Jima, all those who fought.
20 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white image shows the wreckage of a large building that was bombed during WWII. Caption. One of the worst moments came on November 9, 1938.
36 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: What Was the Most Decorated U.S. Combat Unit in WWII?
14 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Where Did Neutral Spain Fight in World War II?
9 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Why Were These 2 Planes Stuck Together? (World War II)
6 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: World War II
13 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Grainy black and white photo of 3 World War 2 soldiers in helmets and uniforms sitting atop a large tank with 2 guns in front of a large brick building.
World War II
Season 0 / Ep 1
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view of rows of British and American soldiers in uniform smiling for a photo while holding up an American flag, a British flag, and a solid red flag. Huge crowds are visible in the distance behind them.
World War II
Season 0 / Ep 2
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digitally recolored image of Adolf Hitler in uniform in front of several other German soldiers in uniform. Part of a huge Nazi flag is visible behind them.
World War II
Season 0 / Ep 3
26 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Historical wartime photo of a palm tree lined beach. Several soldiers are dead at the water's edge, others are seated or walking along the beach.
30 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Yamato: Super Battleship--Largest Battleship in History
9 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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