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Video Clips from Historical Places
Video History Today is the first web site dedicated to providing schools, colleges and universities with raw video clips recorded at places of historical interest. Video images recorded on the actual sites of major historical events have been brought together to provide students with the basic ingredients to produce video essays and mini-documentaries. Access to the on-line library is currently free for one month but this may change to an annual subscription. There are also themed Video Collections for salw at £34.50 each. The Video History Today Video Collections
What is the concept behind Video History Today? The Video History Today Video Collections and library are designed to be used by teachers and students to help improve the understanding of the major events in world history:
Ultimately, the Video History Today Video Collections take the student to where history happened, allows them to relate to a real location and hopefully improve their ability to absorb world events by relating to where it really happened. The majority of video clips in the Video Collections do not tell a story: that's what your imagination is for... Why write an essay when you can see an essay.
The Collections include well known locations but also those not so well known but still a key part of the historical event: The memorial grave of Anne Frank in Bergen Belsen, Germany; Where the Sharpshooter died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvannia; Where Oskar Schindler saved hundreds of Jews in Krakow, Poland; Where the French Revolution was conceived in Versailles; The Cold War prison cells of political prisoners in East German Berlin; Brecourt Manor, where the few Band of Brothers saved the many of the US Army 4th Division landing on Utah Beach;
Rather then write an essay on history, why not create a visual essay?
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