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Video History Today is the home of contemporary video clips of historical places for teachers and students.  We have visited many of the key locations linked to the major events of recent history and recorded hundreds of short, fully adaptable video clips of the major features.  Video, photographs and other information from each location have then been brought together in one easy-to-use file and packaged around the broader themes.  

Each package provides students and teachers with the basic ingredients to produce video essays and mini-documentaries.  These modern clips can be combined with archive clips (British Pathe perhaps), video from school visits to sites, video recorded in the school ‘studio’ or grounds and even historic photographs/music etc to produce a permanent video documentary/video essay.

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Launched in 2007, Video History Today was the first web site dedicated to providing educators & students with modern, adaptable video clips recorded at places of historical interest.

Video images recorded on the actual sites of major historical events have been brought together to act as the building blocks for the creation of educational video essays and mini-documentaries BY students FOR students.

Video History Today has developed various Video Collections, designed to be used by both teachers and students, to help schools in the study of the events in American & World History.  Each collection is provided via INSTANT DOWNLOAD compatible with all Windows computers (Windows XP onwards).  

Video Clips by Instant Download (MANY FREE).  

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The principal idea behind each package is to give students and teachers access to video reusable footage from a wide variety of locations relating to the subject concerned. Depending on the location, each file contains video clips, photographs, maps and Google Earth Placemarks.  All these tools can help in planning school field trips by showing popular and less well known locations, placing them on the globe via Google Earth and perhaps providing additional historical information.

At a minimum, students, can see moving images of the the places where the history they are studying really happened, further reinforcing the subject matter being studied.  In addition, they will see places they realistically may never get to visit themselves or perhaps inspire them to go to in the not too distant future.

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