History 102: History of Western Civilization Since 1715

This 13-part series documents the history of the United States—and celebrates America’s diversity—from the turn of the 20th century to the 1960s and beyond. Pivotal events unfold and key figures live again through archival video clips and photos, period recordings, full-color maps, and other primary source materials, while striking graphics and engaging narration contextualize the history of yesteryear, making it relevant to 21st-century students. Correlates to standards from the National Council for the Social Studies. Viewable/printable instructor’s guides are available online.
2003, Media Rich Learning. 13-part series, 29-132 minutes each.

This two-part series looks closely at the American and Soviet strategies of propaganda and proxy wars over four decades of the Cold War struggle for dominance.
2015, ClickView Pty Limited. 2 videos, 16 minutes each.

This award-winning 13-part series on the Second World War—a striking assemblage of color footage and photographs from national archives and private collections in combination with letters and diaries, battlefield communiqués, and songs of the era—offers fresh perspectives on how the war was fought on its many far-flung fronts.
2001. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. 13-part series, 45 minutes each.

This dazzling six-part series spotlights crucial battles within the context of epic struggles for national, political, and religious domination. With examples drawn from both the Old World and the New World, this select group of programs provides a new take on battles that have shaped history, from 1066 to 1815.
1998, Eagle Rock Entertainment. 6-part series, 30 minutes each.

The Holocaust, the mass destruction of more than 6 million Jewish lives during World War II, has the sort of gravity that few other topics do. This four-part series explores the significance of the Holocaust across time, from its beginnings to the modern day, with the respect and sensitivity that it deserves. Essential viewing, history students will find it to be comprehensive in coverage, if challenging in subject.
2019, ClickView Pty Limited. 4 videos, 6-10 minutes each.

The Industrial Revolution was a key force in shaping the modern world. This two-part series investigates the causes and impacts of this ground breaking period of history.
2014, ClickView Pty Limited. 2 videos, 16 and 17 minutes each.

Renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive destruction and revolutionary social change. Initially, African Americans enjoyed what W. E. B. Du Bois called a "brief moment in the sun", when they could build businesses, become educated, exercise their right to vote, and run for public office. The Constitution was even amended to grant them citizenship, and protect their freedoms. But many former Confederates were staunchly resistant to this new social order, and they unleashed a backlash in the form of rampant violence and a state-by-state rollback of voting rights. This series tells the real story of Reconstruction, one of America's most overlooked, misunderstood, and misrepresented periods of history. It honors the struggle of the African Americans who fought their way out of slavery and challenged the nation to live up to the founding ideals of democracy, freedom, and equality.
2019, PBS. 4 videos, 55 minutes each.

This thought-provoking series goes back to the battlefields of the First World War to transform our image and understanding of the conflict in terms of the people who fought and died in the Great War. It reminds us of those who even now are sidelined in history. Every major battle of World War One was fought by multi-racial allied armies; over a million non-white soldiers died in the conflict. They fell on the Western Front and in the battlefields of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent their part in the “Great War for Civilization’ was marginalized and then forgotten. The war also starkly exposed the contradictions and hypocrisies that surrounded race in the early 20th century, with huge differences in the behavior of the Allied nations towards non-white peoples, and war itself changed those attitudes yet further. The use of black troops by the Allies became the focus of a furious German propaganda campaign, yet the Kaiser’s army also employed thousands of black soldiers in the war in Africa. The exploits of black Africans and black Americans were celebrated by the French and Americans, and used in their own propaganda to shore up support for the war at home. A century later new historical research is bringing their extraordinary stories out of the historical shadows.
2014, BBC Worldwide Learning. 2 videos, 49 and 52 minutes each.