See also the Donner Party video worksheet and Indian Removal Act / Trail of Tears video questions: differentiated Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This film gives an excellent chronology of westward expansion: its causes, methods, consequences, and legacy. It covers: the Louisiana Purchase, the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, the Mexican-American War, the Oregon Trail, the California Gold Rush, the Homestead Act, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Indian Wars, and the Closing of the Frontier. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Imperator channel for “Manifest Destiny". 12 questions for the 15-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent suggestions for further research in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC History Africa ep 7: North Africa - video worksheets, differentiated. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This documentary shows the incredible story of the Second Italo-Ethiopian war and how Emperor Haile Selassie inspired his people to defend their land, despite overwhelming odds. It covers: Mussolini’s ambition and tactics; Ras Tafari at the League of Nations; Treaty of Friendship; invasion at Wal-Wal - international response. A detailed account of Italian aggression and invasion: asymmetrical warfare; Emperor Haile Selassie’s response, including communications with Churchill; Ethiopia’s victory and return to self-rule. Belay Zeleke and The Patriots. Brigadier Mengistu Neway. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Bisi channel for “How Emperor Haile Selassie Humiliated Mussolini and Crushed Fascist Italy ". 15 questions for the 31-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also German South West Africa: video worksheets, differentiated and BBC History Africa E19. The Scramble for Africa: video worksheets, differentiated. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. Also, watch the film before deciding if it’s appropriate for your class. This well-paced and thorough documentary covers the history of the Herero Genocide from Diogo Cao’s 1482 voyage to Germany’s 2021 recognition of genocide, and reparations, including: the region before Germany’s arrival; political and social structures; the Herero, Nama, and San peoples; Samuel Maharero; Captain Hendrik Witbooi; Lieutenant Ralph Zürn; resistance leading to war; von Trotha replaces Leutwein; the German ultimatum; concentration camps; the extent of the genocide; modern Germany’s response – was it adequate? Find the film by searching YouTube’s Bisi channel for “How Germany Wiped Out 80% of a Black Tribe and Got Away With It ". 17 questions for the 31-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC HistoryFile Nazi Germany: ALL 5 and The White Rose Group: video worksheets, differentiated. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This well-paced documentary describes the German war-effort in the summer of 1944; Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg’s injuries, and his initial contact with the Valkyrie plotters; the placement and detonation of the bomb. The next seven hours are described in detail: confusion, reversal, and the ultimate failure of the coup. The roles of Fromm, Beck, Olbricht, and Stauffenberg. The Nazis’ contiuned response, until the end of the war. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Historigraph channel for “The Bomb that Almost Killed Hitler - Operation Valkyrie Documentary”. 16 questions for the 19-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Sources are listed in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also Goebbels’ Film Propaganda: video worksheets, differentiated and BBC History File Nazi Germany: All 5 Videos - question sheets. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This documentary explores the rise of modern propaganda in the run-up to WW2. It concentrates upon the psychology of Hitler’s theories of propaganda, drawing on Mein Kampf, and also includes Edward Bernays’ work on The Creel Commission, in public relations and advertising, and Soviet propaganda and censorship. Find the film by searching YouTube’s World War Two channel for “How Hitler Manipulated Germany into Committing Genocide - WW2 Special”. 15 questions for the 18-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not repeatedly shouted lies. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship Bingo BBC History File WW1 - All six shows, video questions, differentiated. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This documentary explores the rise of Imperial Germany from unification in 1871 to the brink of global conflict in 1914. Covering: the Kaiser Wilhelm II era and the power dynamics of the German Empire; The Schlieffen Plan and Germany’s strategic military doctrine; The role of Prussian militarism in shaping society; Germany’s rivalry with Great Britain during the naval arms race; The formation of the Triple Alliance and tensions with France and Russia; The rise of German nationalism, industry, and diplomacy in the early 20th century. Find the film by searching YouTube’s History 101 channel for “The Great War” | What Made Germany So Successful Before World War 1?. 16 questions for the 23-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Good subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated double-Dutch. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also: BBC HistoryFile Nazi Germany: ALL 5 Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship Bingo Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. An outstanding review of the history, aims, methods, and consequences of Goebbels’ film propaganda machine. The film covers: the German film industry before Hitler; the unique propaganda appeal of cinema; Hitler states that media are controlled by a Jewish cabal; Goebbels named head of the new Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda; purge of Jewish workers in film. Leni Riefenstahl: “The Victory of Faith”, “Triumph of the Will”, “Olympia”. Production disrupted by the outbreak of war. Special status of film industry workers. Veit Harlan: “Suess the Jew” highly praised at the Venice Biennale. “The Eternal Jew” provokes anti-Semitic violence. Other propagandas: “The Great Love” depicting Nazism as noble; “The Soviet Paradise” depicts Bolshevism as a Jewish conspiracy. Find the film by searching YouTube’s World War Two channel for “Lying About the Jews in Film - WW2 Special ". 13 questions for the 15-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated shouty lies. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC: Black Peoples of the Americas. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This drama-documentary describes and explains the Underground Railroad through the story of Lewis Hayden. His biography, the context of slavery, escape, the Underground Railroad, the Abolitionist Movement, Boston, Calvin Fairbank, The Fugitive Slave Law, legacy. TES may show “Video Unavailable”, but it is available. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Harpers Ferry Center NPS channel for “Fighting for Freedom: Lewis Hayden and the Underground Railroad". 15 questions for the 17-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

See also Environmental Repair: video worksheets, differentiated, and Scientific Eye: Electricity for the Future. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. A fascinating, very thorough explanation of the history and potential future of oil. The film concentrates upon the economic and geo-political issues arising from the benefits and harms of oil: Eunice Foote’s 1856 observations; Edward Teller predicts sea-level rise; oil in Nigeria; Zagros Mountains Expedition; Middle East oil boom - effect on Iran; Biafran secession; OPEC; The natural resource curse; environmental damage in Niger Delta; net zero; alternatives to oil and their cost; problems of leapfrog technology; the Green Climate Fund. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “The End of Oil, Explained | FULL EPISODE | Vox + Netflix". Probably also available on Netflix, but I don’t have that, so can’t really comment. 15 questions for the 23-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also FDR: his life and works and Pearl Harbor. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. The history of Executive Order 9066, by which 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned in concentration camps during of WW2. The War Relocation Authority hired photographers to document the process, including Dorothea Lange. Many photos were impounded until 1972, after which they became part of a movement for Japanese Americans, which ultimately resulted in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, approving reparations for survivors of the camps. The film makes extensive use of Lange’s pictures, and film, with commentary from eye-witnesses and contemporary reports, showing the human impact of the Executive Order. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps". 15 questions for the 14-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent suggestions for further research in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC: Black Peoples of the Americas Bundle. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. In 1909, the North Pole was the subject of a heated controversy: Who had made it there first, Robert Peary or Frederick Cook? But overlooked in the debate was a third explorer, a Black man named Matthew Henson. This film gives a detailed account of Henson’s life, achievements, and legacy, concentrating on his polar expeditions. It covers: his backstory; meeting Robert Peary; a history of Arctic Exploration; relationships with the Inuit; attempts to reach the North Pole; the final expedition; the North Pole controversy - who was first? Henson’s legacy. Find the film by searching YouTube’s PBS Origins channel for “The Black Explorer Erased From History". 15 questions for the 13-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC: Black Peoples of the Americas and US Civil Rights in the Cold War. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. Should the US pay reparations for enslavement? This wide-reaching film investigates the precedents for reparations, and how reparations have worked in various settings: Native American land-theft and displacement; internment of Japanese Americans during WWII; Germany’s post WWII Luxembourg Agreement; the Tuskegee Syphilis Study settlement; South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Chicago’s Burge Reparations. Various forms of reparation: land; money; justice. Find the film by searching YouTube’s PBS Origins channel for “The History of Reparations". 15 questions for the 14-min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent references and suggestions for further research in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also BBC: Black Peoples of the Americas and US Civil Rights in the Cold War. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This compelling film investigates how beaches and pools became a battleground for US civil rights. When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America. The 1964 campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the movement to desegregate the US. The photos were published around the world, but the full story has often been left out of our history textbooks. And now, the legacy of segregated public waters continues to this day. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “The forgotten “wade-ins” that transformed the US". 15 questions for the 13:43 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Suggestions for further research in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also similar stories of the Mohawk and Hawai’ian nations. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This compelling and moving film investigates the legacy of Cold War uranium-mining in Navajo Nation. The Puerco River spill: cleanup and compensation compared to Three Mile Island, and prospects for the future. World War Two was ending, the growing nuclear arms race put the US in need of uranium. It turned to Navajo Nation, where the uranium mining industry thrived for four decades – but left disease, pollution and the biggest radioactive spill in US history. That spill in Church Rock, New Mexico upended the lives of nearby residents, who had to grapple with toxic water, livestock and a lifetime of illnesses. Now, they are still waiting for it to be cleaned up. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “How the US poisoned Navajo Nation". 15 questions for the 12.5 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues.Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent notes and bibliography in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This very thorough and engaging film explains Xi’s rise: from the Chinese Revolution to Covid and beyond: Xi removes the 2-term limit; comparisons with Mao. Xi’s father Xi Zhongxun gives refuge to the Long March survivors. Structure of the CCP: Central Committee, Politburo, Politburo Standing Committee, General Secretary. Mao becomes head of party. Maoism unchallengeable; loyalists promoted; Cultural Revolution. Xi Jinping’s internal exile. Mao dies, Deng Xiaoping and collective leadership. Tienanmen Square. China opened up to international trade. Xi builds alliances throughout China, returns to Beijing. Purge of top ministers. Xi Jinping Thought. Economic success, military strengthened. Human rights abuses and Zero-Covid policy protests. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “The rise of Xi Jinping, explained". 16 questions for the 21 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent notes and bibliography in the film’s description. Link to film on all sheets.

See also bioaccumulation and marine pollution. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This very thorough and engaging documentary investigates the problems and potential solutions to pig-waste run-off: the cause and scale of the problem; traditional lagoon-and-spray management; groundwater pollution. Nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, coliform bacteria. More vulnerable communities more badly affected. Technical solutions constrained by economic factors; trials of methane capture for electricity generation. Find the film r by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “Hog farming has a massive poop problem". 16 questions for the 16 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

Plenty more psychology resources here. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This very thorough, accessible, and strangely moving documentary investigates the psychological and physiological nature of memory: the extent to which memories are constructed post-hoc; memory world-champion Yanjaa Wintersoul explains her techniques; surgery to treat epilepsy results in a loss of memory AND the capacity to imagine the future; many regions of the brain involved; experiments demonstrating that memory is unreliable; extreme false memories readily implanted; memory’s role in The Self. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “Memory, Explained | FULL EPISODE | Vox + Netflix". It’s probably on Netflix, too, but I’ve forgotten my password… 17 questions for the 20 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also Hawaiians defeat the US Navy. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This very moving film explores the terrible consequences of industrial activity on the Saint Lawrence River. In the 1950s, GM and Reynolds Metal built factories close to Akwesasne, and by the 1980s, the Mohawk learned that they had been poisoning the river for decades with cancer-causing PCBs. Fish accumulated extremely dangerous levels of PCBs. It presented the community with a devastating choice: continue to fish and risk health problems like cancer and thyroid disorders, or stop fishing and lose the connection with the river, and with their ancestors. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “How US corporations poisoned this Indigenous community" 17 questions for the 17 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also the East India Company resource here. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This film tells how a hastily-drawn line divided one people into two: how the Radcliffe Line changed Punjab and how communities are affected now. The film explains how and why British tasked Cyril Radcliffe with the job of drawing a line to separate Punjab and Bengal provinces from India into East and West Pakistan. The border’s impact: how Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and people of other faiths were affected. We see a Sikh pilgrimage divided because of the new border, Punjabi people of all faiths separated, and a culture ultimately divided; spectacular ceremonies on the India-Pakistan border. It’s not all bleak: the presenter shows us a video conferencing session between students of Gyan Mandir Public School (Delhi, India) and Adamjee Model School (Karachi, Pakistan), and a border restructuring to allow the Sikh pilgrimage. Find the film HERE by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan" 15 questions for the 17 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also the Medicine Through Time super-bundle. From Patrick Kelly’s outstanding History of Medicine series. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. The film is a fascinating and engaging interrogation of the scientific process. Beginning with pre-Colombian use of tobacco as medicine, imported into Europe and developed in the context of contemporary medicine (including tobacco enemas!). Percival Pott and high rates of cancer among chimney-sweeps; mouth cancers in smokers; Nicotiana rustica vs. N. tabacum; Bonsack’s rolling machine. Difficulty in confirming lung-cancer; X-rays. The Epidemiological Transition. Dr. Angel Roffo’s experiments. Big Tobacco. Nazi hostility to smoking, and research. The Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco, passive smoking. Case-control, dose-response, and specificity studies. Four 1950 papers: Wynder and Graham; Levin, Goldstein, and Gerhardt; Schrek, Baker, Ballard, and Dolgoff; Doll and Bradford Hill. Industry responses: menthol added; king-size cigarettes; endorsement by doctors; filters. Retro- vs. prospective studies. Hammond and Horn. The impact of research and evidence. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Patrick Kelly channel for “How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer? | Patrick Kelly" 15 questions for the 26 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.

See also the Medicine Through Time super-bundle. From Patrick Kelly’s outstanding History of Medicine series. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. The film covers the history of placebos: Roman funerals, Dr. William Smellie, Dr. William Cullen, Mesmerism, Perkins Tractors, John Haygarth’s “Of The Imagination”; patulin trials, Dr. Henry Beecher. Placebo and pain, testing vs. Naloxone. Opioid and dopamine pathways. Measurement of pain by pain-scales vs. FMRI scans. The nocebo effect – Dr. Harold Diehl. The hazards of Informed Consent, and Contextualized Informed Consent. Non-deceptive placebos. A thorough explanation of the science of testing efficacy, including blind testing, regression to the mean. Complex ideas explained via excellent graphs. Find the film by searching YouTube’s Patrick Kelly channel for “The Story of the Placebo Effect" 17 questions for the 21 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.