World War I Video Clips

WWI firsts





WWI Causes

 Treaty of Versailles

Dark Ages video on netflix.

Haven't watched it yet but looks like good stuff :)  Click here for the link. 

China's Lost Girls--Documentaries

Netflix has this great documentary called "China's Lost Girls" by National Geographic that discusses the one child policy of China and the number of girls who are lost.  The movie follows American families who want to adopt China's girls.

In the first 7 minutes and 20 seconds, it discusses the one child policy, Mao Zedong and the preference for boys.

By around 11 minutes and 30 seconds they discuss how the boy preference is much more severe in the countryside.  They interview village men and ask "Why so many boys?"

Around 13 minutes, they interview a woman who had two kids and willingly paid the thousands of dollar fine for her second girl (she had a boy first).

At about 16 minutes, they talk about the problems of the boy and girl imbalance.

Ancient Egypt Videos

Tombs of Ancient Egypt:



Sights to see in Egypt (Modern and Ancient)





Promises--Isreali/Palestinian Conflict Documentary

Promises is a documentary that shows the perspectives of Israeli and Palestinian children.  They follow seven Israeli and Palestinian children who all live around Jerusalem.

Brad said that he viewed the movie in high school and in a Middle East college class.  He loved it.  I think if Brad could still remember the movie and the issues it looks at AND that it was shown to him in two different class that it is worth looking at.

This link takes you to a website that posts documentaries for free.  It says that the documentary is available to watch on that website but I couldn't get it to work.  Try back later.

Cuban Missile Crisis Video

Holly Bowers pointed out a great cartoon/song that explains the Cuban Missile Crisis.  This would be a great way to wrap up a CMC discussion.  It is super simple and enjoyable to watch.  And it's only 3 minutes about!

Occupy Wall Street Video Clip

CNN just put out a video clip trying to explain the Occupy Wall Street Movement.  This could be used in a variety of ways: from protest, revolution, government, economy, etc.  I don't know how well the video explains it but it could be good.

Here it is:

Letter to Syrian First Lady

While reading CNN this morning, I learned about a video that 2 U.N. Ambassadors wives (from Britain and Germany) made.  The wives are heard reading a letter to the Syrian First Lady asking her to stand up to her husband and stop being a bystander.  People had hoped that Asma Al-Assad, the first lady, would bring a good Western influence on Syra.  Asma attended college in London (majoring in computer science) and worked in business there before marrying the Syrian President in 2000.  Despite people's hopes, Asma has remained next to her husband through his controversial reign.

The two U.N. wives made the following video and put it on YouTube to ask Asma to act.  The video has contrasting images between Asma's life of style and poise and the horrors that other Syrian mothers face.




This seems especially appropriate seeing as we just learned about how the U.N. can help African countries.  At the end of the clip, the U.N. wives ask people everywhere to send similar letters of their own to the first lady. 

Worse Than War--PBS Special

PBS made a video called Worse Than War.  Wendy King, another Timpview High School teacher, recommended this as another option to watch besides Hotel Rwanda.

I have not watched the film but I think it looks at the Holocaust/Genocides in the world.  It is just under 2 hours long.

Click here for a link to the website or watch the video below.

Watch Worse Than War on PBS. See more from Worse Than War.

This movie from CNN reports on the fall of communism in Bulgaria. It is a great movie, in addition to the 30 of 30 ESPN movie called "Once Brothers" that focuses on the Yugoslavian fall of communism.


The Bulgarian movie is called "Autumn of Change" and is on the CNN video website. 










WWII Movie

A student recommended the movie "Empire of the Sun" to me because she had watched it in her AP World History class.  She said it was a great way to learn about WWII in Japan.  It is an older movie with Christian Bales as the main character (he was 10 years old at the time).  She said you could watch it instantly on Netflix.

This same student recommended the movie "7 Years in Tibet" as well.

Baraka: Documentary showing Culture

A fellow teacher suggested the documentary Baraka for my Geography class.  I haven't been able to watch the documentary yet but I wanted to keep track of this suggestion.

I think I found the movie online at this link: http://documentaryheaven.com/baraka/

OR

she said that Baraka is at the Orem Library as well.

I'll have to look in to it soon!

Hispanic Documentaries

The New York Times compiled five hispanic documentaries for National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The documentaries vary in length from 12 minutes to 147 minutes.

The great thing about this lesson plan is that the NY Times has included questions to go along with the documentaries!

check it out.

Documentaries

Just found this website called "Top Documentary Films"

They have documentaries that are about an hour long on topics like:

Sept. 11th

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews of Denmark

and others!

I haven't taken too much time to watch the documentaries and test them out

but this definitely has a lot of potential!

And the best part?

The documentaries are free!