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Welcome to Video History Today

Video History Today is a video clip library which aims to provide users with short, adaptable video clips recorded at places of historical interest.  Here you will find a selection of FREE video clip files taken from the Video History Today collection. 

    What is Video History Today?

The Video History Today video clip & photograph library focuses primarily on locations in Europe and the United States of America and the major historical events which took place there:

  • The Holocaust (Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen & more)
  • D Day & Operation Overlord (Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Point du Hoc, Utah Beach, Normandy American Cemetery, Arromanches & more)
  • American Civil War  (Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Manassas, Appomattox Court House)
  • The Cold War (Hohenschönhausen, Berlin Wall, Plotzensee Memorial Prison, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Airlift Memorial).

So join the Video History Today and experience where World History occured from your own computer.

 

Recent articles

  United States: Chancellorsville: Earthworks: 1863: American Civil War
Sep 9, 2008

A small file of video clips showing some of the earthworks which still remain in the Chancellorsville area.
  United States: Chancellorsville: Chancellorsville Commentary: 1863: American Civil War
Jun 14, 2008

This file contains links to the two short commentaries made on the Battlefield at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
  United States: New Market: New Market Battlefield Historical Park: American Civil War: Virginia: 1864
May 21, 2008

A look inside the Visitor Center at the New Market Battlefield Historical Park in New Market Virginia.

 
  France: Normandy: HBO Band of Brothers: Brecourt Manor Assault: Utah Beach: D-Day: 1944
May 19, 2008

Video History Today visits sites where history happened.  This article shows one such location that was dramatised so well it had to be featured.

The assault on Brecourt Manor, Normandy was a small but significant event during D-Day.  The memorable and award winning HBO Band of Brothers series captured the reality of war as well as any other movie or televsion programme in history.  Compare the reality with the 'big screen' version.

There are no downloadable files in this article, just YouTube links. 
  England: London: The Tube: London Transport: World Transport
May 5, 2008

The final part (of 3) articles looking at transport in London: The Tube looks at areas of the Tube away from the trains.
  United States: Washington DC: Supreme Court (internal)
Apr 23, 2008

This second file on the Supreme Court Building in Washington DC shows views inside the building.

 
  England: London: Tube Trains: London Transport: World Transport
Apr 1, 2008

The second of three articles looking at transport in London:  The Tube.
  United States: Spotsylvania: The Monuments: The Bloody Angle: American Civil War: Virginia: 1864
Mar 11, 2008

A look at the monuments that today grace the battlefield close to the Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania, 1864.

 

 
  England: London: Docklands: London Transport: World Transport
Feb 25, 2008

One of three articles focusing on transport in London, strating with the Docklands Light Railway.
  France: Normandy: Normandy Useful Information
Feb 20, 2008

A speacial file of archive photographs and Normandy maps.
  United States: Washington DC: Petersen House: Abraham Lincoln: 1865
Feb 13, 2008

President Abraham Lincoln died on 15th April 1865 in the Petersen house, 10th Street, Washington DC.

 

 
  United States: Harpers Ferry Commentary: John Brown: WV: 1859
Jan 26, 2008

Video clips and photographs look at Harpers Ferry with some commentary made at the time of the visit.  The visit of John Brown to the town is mentioned.
 
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