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Digital collage. Portrait of George Washington next to a map of the U, S with some eastern states shaded purple. Thought bubble reads, "I'm the president and I set lots of precedents!" Caption. As our first president, he established many precedents.
60-Second Presidents
Episode 1
1 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital collage. Superimposed heads of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson on the bodies of 2 men with arms around each other. Text overlay reads, "B, F, Fs 4 eva." Caption. His best friend was Thomas Jefferson.
60-Second Presidents
Episode 2
1 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital collage with James Monroe wrapped in an American flag and a number 1 foam hand that reads, "U, S, A." Black and white image of crowd waving American flags in background. Caption. His presidency was called the Era of Good Feelings.
60-Second Presidents
Episode 4
1 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital collage. John Adams' head superimposed on Christmas elf's body standing in front of Massachusetts State House. Speech bubble reads, "Go Sawks!" Caption. Female as narrator. John Adams was a grumpy, frumpy principled lawyer from Boston.
60-Second Presidents
Episode 5
1 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Painting of Thomas Jefferson with an exaggerated head. He stands in a room filled with men, some surrounding a table with books and papers. Speech bubble reads, "Take that King George!" Caption. Tom took the lead on the Declaration of Independence.
60-Second Presidents
Episode 6
1 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of A. Philip Randolph, a civil-rights activist. Caption. Of a mighty corporation such as the Pullman Company was.
1 hours 27 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of 2 men and a woman in 1800's Western clothes in a saloon. Caption. Likely Ryker was shooting' off his mouth.
1 hours 29 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Group of actors wearing Civil War-era costumes stand and watch a figure who resembles Abraham Lincoln. Caption. Elected him to the state legislature.
17 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Man dressed as Abraham Lincoln stands sideways in front of a sunlit window, looking down at a small book. Framed portrait hangs on wall next to window.
25 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Alexander Graham Bell
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Man wearing a pharaoh costume resembling Alexander the Great, person bowing behind him. Caption. Alexander proclaimed pharaoh.
26 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Photo and text overlay collage with portraits of Nate and Andy Warhol, with a group of paparazzi with cameras pointing at Warhol. The background is a chalkboard list of things Warhol loved, such as Hollywood, Ice Cream, and Crazy Wigs.
Artrageous With Nate
Season 0 / Ep 29
11 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sepia-toned photo of Abraham Lincoln with white script across the image that reads, "Return their allegiance to the Union." Caption. To the Union.
16 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Barbara Jordan standing in a room full of Black women. She smiles and looks over at a person extending their hand. Caption. In the United States House of Representatives.
22 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman faces camera with right hand signing. Caption. I realized that being deaf is part of who I am.
49 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white portrait painting of a young Davy Crockett. Caption. Davy Crockett had become an American legend.
23 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
Illustration of the carbon cycle: Plants intake CO2, herbivores (giraffe) eat plants, carnivores (lion) eat herbivores, carnivores release CO2, and then plants absorb CO2. Caption: releases carbon dioxide back into the air.
Biology
Episode 7
35 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A roughly tear-drop shaped object with a thin outer layer, a wider middle layer, and a central space. Caption: A gastrula is an embryo made of three cell layers.
Biology
Episode 5
21 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Low shot of a quarterback holding a football and running back across the field, looking out over his shoulder. Caption. The crossover type of drop back is the quickest.
39 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of Al Capone walking away from a black car. Caption. Capone was arrested many times during his heyday.
58 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Animation of ancient buildings silhouetted against an amber sky. Caption. At the end of October, Alexander takes Babylon.
Butterfly Effect
Season 1 / Ep 2
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Child crouches down over a basket of fruit. Text below reads, Cesar's Early Life.
21 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sweaty basketball player speaks into the camera. Behind him, a court and basketball hoop. Caption. When your offensive man comes into you to get open.
50 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Senior Native American wearing a feather headdress looks directly at camera. Caption. These were portraits like you might see of Roman emperors.
1 hours 25 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Generally spherical white coral consisting of countless individual arm segments on the ocean floor. Caption: and the solution of their rescue might be within.
Coral Comeback
Episode 6
5 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native Americans with drums and White soldiers in red jackets and white paints, walking.
1 hours 15 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Middle-aged man in business attire in an office setting. He faces camera and uses sign language, holding 1 fist up facing inward. Caption. School aged Deaf youth.
Deaf TV
Episode 2
34 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Video screen shows a woman with blonde straight hair looking out and using sign language, touching a closed fist with thumb up to the top of the other hand. Text on image reads, "Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood, California."
Deaf TV
Episode 3
22 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Senior man standing on a field and holding a football in one hand. Caption. Okay. Good looking. That's the way to come off the ball.
58 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Mother reads with her 3 children on a couch in a living room setting. Caption. His mother taught him and his sister.
14 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Black and white photo of Chinese ships sailing at sea. Caption. I went to China with my parents.
1 hours 27 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: Cicada Mania
Emily Graslie's Art Lab
Season 1 / Ep 1
12 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 35
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
2 men face off on the football field. Caption. Narrator. Watch the receiver as your run with him in the throwing lane.
35 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Black and white side portrait photo of Eva Peron. Caption. Eva was left behind in Buenos Aires.
34 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Charles Dickens
Famous Authors
Episode 5
37 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe
Famous Authors
Episode 6
42 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Émile Zola
Famous Authors
Episode 27
36 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway
Famous Authors
Episode 11
29 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Famous Authors
Episode 9
32 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Eliot
Famous Authors
Episode 7
35 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Orwell
Famous Authors
Episode 17
34 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Henrik Ibsen
Famous Authors
Episode 13
38 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of James Joyce
Famous Authors
Episode 14
36 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jane Austen
Famous Authors
Episode 1
35 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Keats
Famous Authors
Episode 15
33 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Steinbeck
Famous Authors
Episode 21
39 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jonathan Swift
Famous Authors
Episode 22
35 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Mark Twain
Famous Authors
Episode 23
33 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Famous Authors
Episode 16
32 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Famous Authors
Episode 3
36 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous Authors
Episode 20
36 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson
Famous Authors
Episode 28
33 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Famous Authors
Episode 10
35 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Virginia Woolf
Famous Authors
Episode 25
35 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walt Whitman
Famous Authors
Episode 24
29 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walter Scott
Famous Authors
Episode 18
39 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Blake
Famous Authors
Episode 2
38 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats
Famous Authors
Episode 26
33 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Faulkner
Famous Authors
Episode 8
34 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
Famous Authors
Episode 19
43 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a stone archway topped with a cross. A weathered stone wall looms in the background. Caption. As the father and founder of California.
The Missions Of California
Episode 1
11 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 12
Black poet, Margaret Walker, writing on a chalkboard. Caption. Narrator. Walker began teaching in 1942 after receiving.
27 minutes 1 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
Color illustration of Frida Kahlo holding a paintbrush and palette while surrounded by animals. Title card reads, "Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos.
16 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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
Actors wearing Continental Army costumes hold rifles and stand at attention. Caption. They served for only a three-month period.
18 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Painting of 6 men raising clubs and bayonets to attack another man, while a soldier in a blue coat and black hat looks on. A building is on fire in the background. Caption. Washington used force to disperse the angry farmers.
Our Presidents In America's History
Episode 2
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Closeup of woman looks to the left and stands in open-sided, thatched roof dwelling.
26 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon. A man wearing a jacket with popped collar and purple pants seated on a red couch in a kitschy art studio space. There are several paintings, a lava lamp, and lights winding up a column. Caption. I'm Andy, Andy Warhol.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 6
23 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. A dark haired man wearing a jacket, vest, trousers, and wide-brimmed hat. He stands in front of an easel with mountains painted in an impressionist style in the background. Caption. Hello, I'm Claude Monet.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 4
21 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. A man wearing a purple jacket and pink cravat stands on stage with a ballerina posing in the background. Next to him, an easel with a painting of a ballerina. Caption. I'm Edgar Degas, 1 of the world's greatest artists.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 7
22 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. A thin man with a long beard and nose wearing a light green floppy hat and tunic. He's standing on a hilly landscape in the countryside. Caption. Hi, there! I'm Leonardo da Vinci.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 2
22 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. A woman wearing a pink hat and holding a paintbrush and palette stands in a room with several paintings on easels. Caption. Soon I was painting in a whole new style.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 5
21 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. Man wearing a multi-colored tunic, red tights, and brown boots stands on scaffolding holding a hammer and chisel. Behind him, an image of the top portion of the famous David statue. Caption. Hello, I am Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 8
25 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Cartoon. Actual image of the top of the Emancipation Proclamation in color, showing a portrait of Lincoln with a laurel leaf border and 2 American flags waving in the breeze. Caption. January 1, 1863, I sent out the Emancipation Proclamation.
Getting To Know The U.S. Presidents
Episode 4
20 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Painting. Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware showing Washington in a rowboat with several men. He's looking out ahead across the water with an American flag waving in the wind behind him. Caption. That was the leader I was willing to be.
Getting To Know The U.S. Presidents
Episode 1
16 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Cartoon. A gray-haired man wearing formal colonial clothing holds up a finger, pointing at an actual portrait painting of President John Adams. Caption. I played an important role in the American Revolution.
Getting To Know The U.S. Presidents
Episode 2
17 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Black and white illustration of Jefferson and 4 others gathered around a small table looking at a handwritten document. Caption. And they chose me to write a Declaration of Independence.
Getting To Know The U.S. Presidents
Episode 3
20 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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
Closeup of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting. A woman and man with stern facial expressions look outward.
38 minutes
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black woman faces away from camera and looks over her right shoulder within a forested setting. Caption. The journey for Harriet was long and hard.
America's Journey Through Slavery
Season 0 / Ep 3
12 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Black and white frame of slave men, women and children walking on a dirt path. Caption. To lead nearly 300 slaves to freedom.
10 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Portrait painting of Liliuokalani wearing a black gown and several pieces of jewelry. She has a soft physique, medium-brown skin and dark features.
54 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young Helen Keller, one arm wrapped around an adult woman's shoulder, the other reaching out to hold her hand.
55 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Aerial shot of 2 people on the ground with arms and legs akimbo, illuminated by a blue light. Caption. Man, as Hemingway. There are no heroes in this war.
18 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Hidden Figures: Meet the Computers
7 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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
Color illustration. Girl dressed in blue with red ringlets, holding a doll. Caption. When Esther was 8, she watched her mother.
17 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
King Jordan stands in front of several microphones with a crowd of people behind him. Caption. I, King Jordan became the first deaf president.
25 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of a woman playing the piano while looking at sheet music. A man stands by watching her play. Caption. Though he declared she delighted in tormenting him.
39 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Wide shot of a basketball court with offense and defense in play on one side of the court. Caption. If I wanted to make this pass here.
50 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
A scale shows world population. 2 billion people will be added by 20 50 to the 7 billion at present. A number, 2 X, is shown over the food crops, wheat and corn.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 2
6 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo shows John Pierpont Morgan walking and talking with a young man. Caption. Narrator. Morgan knew he had been beaten, but he wasn't about to give up.
44 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A side view of a man holding a part of a vehicle engine. Caption. Refiérase a joha de información y coloque las otras medidas.
32 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Color illustration of a girl seated by a tree with sheep in the background. Caption. One summer day when Joan was 13 years old.
11 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of three men in lab coats at a laboratory table. Caption. Who had developed a vaccine that conquered poliomyelitis.
25 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young Langston Hughes wearing a plaid shirt, orange paisley tie, and brown suspenders looks out with a neutral expression.
1 hour 0 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Painted profile image of Laurent Clerc. Caption. A co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in Connecticut called.
31 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two men in suits and cowboy hats turn toward one another as they ride horses through a verdant landscape. Caption. Banks all across Missouri and Kentucky were robbed.
Legends Of The American West
Season 0 / Ep 1
42 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurry color illustration of 3 Native Americans riding horses. Caption. The Native Americans fought to hold onto their lands.
Legends Of The American West
Season 0 / Ep 2
47 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white closeup of Tolstoy hunched over a table, writing. Caption. Tolstoy spent the last few years of his life in Yasnaya Polyana.
25 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Watercolor illustration of a man with a red bandana covering the bottom half of his face. Shadowy gray background. Caption. He wore a red handkerchief.
1 hours 20 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A black and white image of Margaret Mead looking down at an indigenous Samoan man.
1 hour 25 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white image of Gandhi exiting a building, surrounded by onlookers. Caption. During the same visit, she met Gandhi.
35 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev looking just off camera. Caption. And that would be the end of any reform in the country.
44 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
John Lewis wears a dark suit and sits in front of black and blue background. His face turns to the side with a perplexed expression. Title bar reads, "Minds that matter. John Lewis, Democratic U, S congressman, Georgia."
58 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a girl looking over a wrought iron handrail out onto a cityscape. Caption: Once upon a time she was a little girl named Alice
16 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: K - 5
Plastic 3D color-coded model of the human brain. Caption: The brain's maximum potential?
56 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--The Thinking and Social Brain
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 4
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Artist Norman Rockwell painting a scene of 2 women, seated, with child leaning on table in foreground. Caption. 520 magazine covers in his 84 years.
12 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Oliver and Wilber Wright are testing their flight in the open sands. Caption: on the sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
32 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of a horse-drawn carriage that reads, Freedmen's Hospital Ambulance. A man poses behind the carriage. Caption. Was the only black hospital in the United States.
43 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
3 Saudi royal men stand in front of tanks. Two other Saudi men sit atop tanks. Caption. Osama was at odds with the Saudi royals.
16 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
President Obama at a press briefing, standing in the hallway of the White House before a microphone and podium. Caption. The United States launched a targeted operation.
46 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome ("Game Changers")
Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome
Episode 1
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Color illustration of Paul Revere holding a hammer and examining a bowl in a silversmith shop. Caption. Paul learned the silversmith trade.
American Tall Tales & Legends
Episode 5
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: K - 5
Closeup of a moon with passing clouds in front. Caption. Under cover of night, on April 18, 1775.
46 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of an older Pablo Picasso holding a paintbrush in front of a sculpture resting on a pedestal.
34 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame depicts a heavyset man playing Henry VIII. He wears a broad-shouldered robe with round, pleated upper sleeves. Caption. Well, smile while you may.
1 hours 33 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white portrait photograph of Ralph Bunche. Caption. He remains an enigma in American and world history.
1 hours 56 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Young Ralph Ellison sits by a window, looking out and away from a typewriter positioned in front of him.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 football players face off at the line of scrimmage, bending their knees and looking at each other's eyes. Caption. Narrator. For the swim move, Reggie will line up as the left end.
33 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Color portrait of Rembrandt's face. Head covered by a soft cap. Eyes look sideways and mouth is closed with mustaches above and under the lip.
43 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white portrait of a young Robert Frost holding a hand against his cheek with 1 finger raised to his temple.
1 hour 0 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
2 football players running next to each other on a field. 1 reaches an arm out, the other grabs the first man at the elbow. Caption. You must take him to block for the ball carrier.
29 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A desert hill. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 2
4 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of the upper body of a human exposing the skeleton, circulatory system, and lungs. Caption: The breastbone protects the heart and lungs.
20 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white frame shows a crowd of people at a nightclub. In the foreground, 2 women are seated at a bar table. Caption. No, truly, Miss Gray.
41 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Illustration of a child with his face turned up to the snow falling from the sky. Caption: Willie Bentley's happiest days were snowstorm days.
16 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Man watches a video of 2 men standing next to each other in business suits. Caption. And they needed Sue's help to read lips.
19 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sepia toned photo of a senior Black man and 4 women from mid-1990s. Caption. My grandmother is a very territorial woman.
29 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of a child playing on a city street, imagining that he is flying the rocket in his hand. Caption: His imagination took him out of his neighborhood.
10 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Blonde and tanned Sylvia Plath smiling and posing on a white sandy beach in a white bathing suit .
1 hour 0 minutes
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Back of someone's upper body. Caption: You see, Bill Gibson was a -- well, a dreamer.
8 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Map centered on the island of Borneo. Caption: I was the only one working on an area near Borneo,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 45
10 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a man standing in profile. He looks down at a notecard held in his hand. Title card reads, "Carl Cotton, A Natural Talent."
The Brain Scoop
Episode 73
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 51
14 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
World globe stopped on the Atlantic Ocean, showing Africa, and a section of North and South America. Caption. But the world is very big and life very short.
45 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of 2 men, 1 dressed as a farmhand and the other in a suit, bow tie and cap. Caption. I guess.
1 hours 32 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of Jackie Robinson at bat mid warm-up swing. Caption. Come on, Jackie boy, get a hold of one!
1 hours 17 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman stands in shadows next to a projected image entitled, The End of the Old Testament. Caption. It was not uncommon for birthdays to be recorded down.
1 hours 47 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blood cells flowing through a vein. Spanish captions.
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 7
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman leans down towards a girl who is seated on the floor next to a labrador retriever. Caption. How do I make her understand?
1 hours 28 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Storybook cover with a colorful illustration of 2 students holding books and walking; 1 of the students has white hair and glasses. Title reads, "The Oldest Student. How Mary Walker Learned to Read."
14 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Man standing at chalk board in front of class. Caption: George's discoveries brought so many benefits to mankind
35 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Movie frame shows a lion rearing up on its hind legs in the foreground, a young woman pulling another person towards a door, lion tamer holding a weapon and seated on a beam above. Caption. I'm so sorry, dear.
1 hours 32 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 -
Color illustration. Profile of a man in a hat holding a leafy stick with shades of blue in the background. Caption. Sound of cow mooing.
16 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Side view of a simple tan colored church with white framed windows and a steeple. Caption. Her teaching took her to Texas.
10 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digitally altered photo collage of young Elon Musk smiling as he sits at a desk with a black desktop computer. On a desk behind him is an older, bigger white desktop computer.
Artrageous With Nate
Season 0 / Ep 37
7 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Elon Musk looks seriously at the camera while he sits on a chair in front of huge metal pieces of a spaceship in a warehouse.
Artrageous With Nate
Season 0 / Ep 38
8 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Painting of a man in early 1900s baseball gear and cap. He holds a bat, ready to swing. Caption. Eakins also painted baseball subjects.
12 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
3 young Black men standing in formation wear blue Civil War era Union Army costumes. A horse and other figures are out of focus in background. Caption. Refused African-American soldiers.
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Nate talks in front of a blackboard with text that reads, "Vincent number 1." There's an arrow going from the year 1853 to the year 1852. Caption. "They must have really liked the name."
Artrageous With Nate
Season 0 / Ep 32
13 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white side angle profile of W, E, B Du Bois wearing circular glasses and looking off with a concentrated stare. Caption. Will write, "Now the children cease to hear my name."
1 hours 2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of Willa Brown, an American aviator. Caption. Will continued promoting aviation to black youth.
27 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of baseball players around home plate. Caption. And earned the Most Valuable Player Award.
1 hours 5 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person against a backdrop of the moon, earth, and an American flag. Caption: (female narrator) Alan Shephard, the first American in space,
World Explorers
Episode 26
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Painting of explorer Amerigo Vespucci holding a large golden drawing compass on a map on a wood table. An illustration of a ship with a dark sky and a compass rose are in the background. Caption. Securing a position as a mapmaker and astronomer.
World Explorers
Episode 8
4 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Painting of Christopher Columbus wearing a triangle hat and a large, dark cloak on the left. He is superimposed over a map of the globe drawn in maroon. Caption. Many Americans honor the feats of Christopher Columbus.
World Explorers
Episode 7
4 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of white-haired Daniel Boone holding a shotgun on his left while looking right, superimposed over a photo of tree-covered hills on a foggy day. Caption. Known as 'The Great Pathfinder.'
World Explorers
Episode 18
4 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Dark gray statues of vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson, superimposed over a parchment-colored old-style map of Western Europe, Iceland, and Greenland. Caption. Erik the Red and his son, Leif Erikson.
World Explorers
Episode 2
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
Color illustration of Sir Francis Drake with a large ruffled collar and black cloak next to a globe on a table. An illustration of many large ships with sailboats is in the background. Caption. Drake successfully raided Spanish ships and harbors.
World Explorers
Episode 15
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of the upper half of explore Francisco Pizarro with a long beard. He's wearing a metal helmet with several large feathers and a cloak looking at a trunk of a tree. Caption. The Pizarros overthrew the Inca Empire.
World Explorers
Episode 13
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Color illustration of explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado wearing a big golden helmet and white ruffled collar. A map is in the background, along with a gold city outline. Caption. Seeking fabled golden cities.
World Explorers
Episode 14
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone image of explorer Gertrude Bell superimposed on the left side of a faint image of a sandstone ruin amongst sand dunes. Caption. Explored the desert lands of sultans and sheikhs.
World Explorers
Episode 24
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Simple map showing northwestern Europe, Iceland, and Greenland in tan, the Atlantic Ocean in light blue, and a red line depicting a sailing route out of London going north. Caption. Hudson sailed northward, toward Greenland.
World Explorers
Episode 17
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of explorer Hernando de Soto in silver armor superimposed over an old-style map of Florida and other Caribbean islands. Caption. Hernando de Soto explored, conquered.
World Explorers
Episode 11
4 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Painting of a man with a dark mustache and forked beard wearing a gray turban and red and gold tunic sitting cross-legged. Images of animals on circles form a floating circle around him. Caption. Battuta would travel to even more distant lands.
World Explorers
Episode 1
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of explorer John Cabot with Shakespeare-era hat and forked white beard. He is superimposed over an old-style map of the globe. Caption. Caboto decided to also try to find a westerly route to Asia.
World Explorers
Episode 5
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of explorer John Smith with a fluffy beard, big white collar, and leather coat, superimposed over a red and tan map of the Northeast United States. Caption. He explored and mapped the Chesapeake Bay.
World Explorers
Episode 20
4 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Ruins of a building made of limestone bricks with greenery in the front. The left of the building has a arch with a cross and 4 small windows with iron bells. Caption. Serra founded 9 missions to convert Native Americans.
World Explorers
Episode 22
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone map with a label in Gothic-style text that reads, "A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track," with other illegible text underneath. Caption. Mapping the territory and discovering its resources.
World Explorers
Episode 23
6 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Color illustration of a lazy river between rolling hills covered in trees in reds, yellow, and oranges. Caption. Marquette had heard about the great river.
World Explorers
Episode 27
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of Marco Polo wearing red coat and furry cap holding a sword and bow and arrow. His image is superimposed over a color map with a compass rose and Gothic-style text, enclosed by elaborate patterned border. Caption. Marco Polo returned with amazing tales.
World Explorers
Episode 3
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white closeup image of explorers Matthew Henson on the left and Robert Peary on the right. Both are wearing fur-lined hoods and furry coats. Caption. Became the first 2 people to reach the top of the world.
World Explorers
Episode 25
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person in a space suit with the helmet removed, the moon in the background. Caption: Neil Alden Armstrong commanded a mission to the moon
World Explorers
Episode 28
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of 3 conquistadors in armor carrying a wounded soldier over a dead soldier. 2 wooden gun stocks are on each side of the screen. Caption. Ponce de León was wounded in the battle.
World Explorers
Episode 9
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-tone sketch of explorer Robert de La Salle in a colonial-style uniform taking a fur from a Native American while 2 other colonists smoke pipes and watch. Caption. La Salle established himself as a fur trader in Montréal.
World Explorers
Episode 21
4 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Brown and tan map of the Northeast United States, including the Great Lakes, with a portion highlighted in blue and labeled, "New France." Caption. Samuel de Champlain secured France's piece of the New World.
World Explorers
Episode 19
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white sketch of 3 conquistadors in uniform looking at a man in wide-brimmed hat and fancy coat gesturing toward a sign that reads, "Croatoan." Caption. To this day, their disappearance remains a mystery.
World Explorers
Episode 16
5 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Painting of a man wearing a dark velvet hat and a red velvet vest over a jacket with puffy sleeves. An old-style map of western Africa is under yellow text on the screen and reads, "Vasco da Gama." Caption. Was the first person to sail from Europe to India.
World Explorers
Episode 6
4 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Computer rendering of explorer Zheng He wearing a black bonnet-style hat and red cloak. He is superimposed over a colorful map with Chinese writing. Caption. Assembled the largest fleet of ships ever seen.
World Explorers
Episode 4
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white photo of Yogi Berra in a catcher's uniform, squatting and holding up a mit in front of his face. Caption. To the now-legendary "it ain't over till it's over."
1 hours 7 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Native American woman looking at camera, seated. Caption. To continue to do the things that he's doing for our people.
1 hours 11 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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