I've grouped them into historical periods, but often one video could fit in more than one. For example, I listed a video about Eleanor Roosevelt in the section for the Great Depression, even though she was also First Lady during World War II and was a human rights activist after World War II.
This page will grow over time.
I started with videos are from from Biography.com, the site that goes with A&E's Biography television series. Since it's a commercial site, you sometimes need to watch a brief ad before you get to the main video. Note that when there's a "mini biography," there are usually links to other segments or a full episode; when there's a long video, there are often links to shorter clips.
I'm putting each video's length in parentheses, so you'll know whether to pop a bag of popcorn before settling in.
(last edited 5/18/15)
Early Explorers
Christopher Columbus - Mini Biography (3:16) and Christopher Columbus - Full Episode (42:47), Biography.comJuan Ponce de Léon - Full Episode (42:00), Biography.com
Colonial Times
Pocahontas - Mini Bio (2:14) and Pocahontas - Full Episode (46:34), Biography.comJamestown Archaeology Project - Current Dig 6/6/2008 (3:35), Smithsonian Videos
Revolutionary War and Early Republic
The Story Behind the Boston Tea Party (3:48), Ted EdGeorge Washington - Full Episode (45:58), Biography.com
John and Abigail Adams - Full Episode (43:12), Biography.com
American Experience: John and Abigail Adams [panel discussion] (48:13), PBS | NPR Forum Network
Benjamin Franklin - Mini Biography (2:15) and Benjamin Franklin - Full Episode, Biography.com (47:09), Biography.com
Thomas Jefferson - The Almighty Pen [Declaration of Independence] (2:15), Biography.com
Benedict Arnold - Full Episode (43:06), Biography.com
Paul Revere - Full Episode(42:40), Biography.com
Patrick Henry - Full Episode (43:50), Biography.com
U.S. Constitution
Schoolhouse Rock Preamble to the Constitution (2:46):
(The song includes an introduction before the preamble. If you want just the preamble, with the words on the screen so you can follow along, watch this video.)
A 3-Minute Guide to the Bill of Rights (TED Ed) (3:35)
Time magazine's 10 videos about the Bill of Rights (each one is about 3 minutes long).
A 1963 cartoon, "The Great Rights" (13:32):
Congress.gov's lessons on The Legislative Process (9 segments totally about 28 min.)
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Lewis & Clark - Full Episode (43:54), Biography.comSacagawea - Guide and Friend (2:08) and Sacagawea - Reunited and Saved (1:32), Biography.com
1815-1860
Abraham Lincoln - Growing up on the Frontier (3:06), Biography.comSusan B. Anthony - Mini Bio (2:16), Biography.com
Ulysses S. Grant - Learning War (1:16), Biography.com
Davy Crockett - Full Episode (42:28), Biography.com
Daniel Boone - Full Episode (44:00), Biography.com
Harriet Tubman - Mini Bio (7:21), Biography.com
Epic Journeys of Freedom (69:28) [Lecture by Australian historian Cassandra Pybus about escaped slaves during the American Revolution who went to Britain and elsewhere for freedom], PBS|NPR Forum Network
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln: Mini-Biography (3:54) and Abraham Lincoln: Full Episode (89:44), Biography.comWilliam Seward - Secretary of State, Biography.com (2:48)
Mary Todd Lincoln - Mini Bio, Biography.com (3:15)
Frederick Douglass - Full Episode (46:33), Biography.com
Ulysses S. Grant - The Rebel War Starts (1:18), Biography.com
Ulysses S. Grant - The Clash at Shiloh (1:48), Biography.com
Ulysses S. Grant - Surrender with Dignity, Biography.com (1:45)
1862: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant (4:11), Smithsonian - National Portrait Gallery
Jefferson Davis - The Confederate Choice (1:12), Jefferson Davis - Treason (2:12), and Jefferson Davis - The End (2:01), Biography.com
John Wilkes Booth - Full Episode (45:39), Biography.com
Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant - General to Politician (1:51), Biography.comSlavery by Another Name (73:00) - author Douglas Blackmon discusses his book about laws that were used to arrest African Americans and force them into prison labor from Reconstruction to World War II. C-SPAN.
Westward Expansion
Sitting Bull - No Compromise (0:49), Biography.comCrazy Horse - Full Episode (46:54)
The Earp Brothers - Full Episode (43:44)
The James Gang - Full Episode (43:50)
Buffalo Bill Cody - Full Episode (43:52)
Calamity Jane - Full Episode (45:15)
Progessive Era, Gilded Age
The Rockefellers: Full Biography, Biography.com (45:14)The Astors: Full Biography, Biography.com (44:56)
W.E.B. DuBois: The Niagara Movement, Biography.com (3:44)
Mark Twain - Mini Bio, Biography.com (3:19)
The Duponts - Mini Bio, Biography.com (2:12)
Andrew Carnegie - Full Episode (46:10)
Henry Ford - A Car for the People, Biography.com (1:28)
George Washington Carver - Mini Bio (4:26)
J.P. Morgan - Full Episode (43:47)
Alexander Graham Bell - Full Episode (43:22)
Titanic Centenary Collection [films and other material from the 1911 construction, sailing, and sinking of the Titanic], British Pathe
World War I
Roaring Twenties and Great Depression
Amelia Earhart: Mini Biography, Biography.com (3:20)Eleanor Roosevelt - Mini Biography, Biography.com (4:15)
Al Capone - Rise to Power (2:59) and Al Capone - Taking Him Out (4:57), Biography.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Mini Biography, Biography.com (3:42)
Charlie Chaplin - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:11)
Babe Ruth - Full Biography, Biography.com (47:18)
FDR - Years of Crisis - Full Episode (48:00)
Excerpts from President Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 (7:21), Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
Our Plain Duty: FDR and America's Social Security (5:13), Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library YouTube Channel - 91 videos
Langston Hughes - Mini Bio, Biography.com (3:33)
Duke Ellington - Mini Bio (3:57)
World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:56)Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library YouTube Channel - 91 videos
Winston Churchill - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:12)
Adolf Hitler - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:54)
Joseph Stalin - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:04)
War on Japan Declared [FDR's speech to Congress] (1:31)
General George Patton - Full Episode (90:46)
FDR - The War Years - Full Episode (47:55)
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Full Episode (44:45)
General Douglas Macarthur - Full Episode (47:11)
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb, 1945 - A Day That Shook The World (2:20), British Pathe
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:39)Martin Luther King's "I Have Dream Speech," Aug. 28, 1963 (17:28)
Rosa Parks - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:30)
Thurgood Marshall - Full Episode, Biography.com (46:39)
Jackie Robinson - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:03)
Maya Angelou - Mini Bio, Biography.com (4:06)
Medgar Evers - Mini Bio (4:01)
Malcolm X - Mini Bio (4:52)
Greensboro Lunch Counter [1960 sit-in] (1:01), Newseum
Training for Nonviolent Protest in the Footsteps of the Greensboro Four (5:15), Smithsonian Videos
President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act, Gives Pen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2:18), Newseum
1950s and 1960s
John F. Kennedy - Mini Bio, Biography.com (6:32)Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Mini Bio, Biography.com (3:52)
Lee Harvey Oswald - A Shot Seen Across the Country, Biography.com (4:10)
Muhammad Ali - Mini Bio (4:09)
The infamous and ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail - Cameron Paterson (3:54), Ted Ed
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