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February 6th Crisis (SEGMENT)

From Title: Days of Contempt: French Intellectuals in the 20th Century

French intellectuals who survived World War I rebelled against bourgeois democracy; view footage of right wing Paris demonstrations in 1934.

Tele Images Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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World War One (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Big Picture: Whites of Their Eyes

In WWI the American Army swelled to four million given time by British and French resistance. Post war Europeans and Japan prepared for war, while the US cut the military budget an...

Nat'l Archives & Records Administration Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Army Enters Paris (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Paris Commune

The army entered Paris with no opposition, as the Communards attended a concert and occupied strategic points. Parisians responded to the cry "Everyone to the Barricades!", joining...

Pathe Media Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Fire and Massacre (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Paris Commune

Commune delegates burned City Hall as they fled it. Paris caught fire; both sides blamed the other. The army hunted down and killed Communards.

Pathe Media Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Female Anti-War Reformers in WWI (SEGMENT)

From Title: Women First & Foremost

At the start of WWI, female reformers took center stage. Jane Adams and others established the Women's Peace Party, believing that women had an unglorified understanding of war and...

BayView Entertainment LLC. Grade(s): 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Europe's Mixed Reaction to the end of WWI (SEGMENT)

From Title: Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed the World

Germany celebrates its army's return. The signed armistice is no admission of guilt. France mourns the death of 700,000 unidentifiable citizens.

National Film Board of Canada Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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French Occupation of Germany (SEGMENT)

From Title: The '20s: From Illusion to Disillusion

When Germany refused to pay its war debts, the French occupied its industrial area, fueling German militarism. The Labour Party won in England in 1924.

Pathe Media Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Reprisals and Shattered Dreams (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Paris Commune

20,000 prisoners were taken to Versailles to face military tribunals. Communards who believed the oppressed could rise up and seize power had their dreams shattered. The destructio...

Pathe Media Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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WWI: Senseless War (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Last Day of World War I

WWI was a war with a senseless beginning. A series of diplomatic blunders plunged 20 countries into a disaster that would slaughter a whole generation of youth, over 8 million sold...

History Education Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Among the Ruins (SEGMENT)

From Title: Aftermath (The Color of War)

American soldiers assigned to occupation duty in both Germany and Japan did not relish their new job. Exhausted from WWII all they wanted was to return to civilian life.

History Education Grade(s): 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Roles in World War II (SEGMENT)

From Title: Face to Face (The Color of War)

The vast majority of men serve in support services. Correspondents risk their lives to bring back images of the war.

History Education Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Unprecedented Carnage (SEGMENT)

From Title: World War I Tech (Modern Marvels)

WWI exposed the dark side of the industrial revolution. Technological achievements that created mass production and new forms of transportation were put to use with devastating eff...

Modern Marvels Grade(s): 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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World Wars: Destruction of German-American Community (SEGMENT)

From Title: Where Have All the Germans Gone?

Forced, in many cases, to fight their Old Country brothers, Germans never recovered from the trauma of fighting in WWI. In WWII, German-American communities were already broken apa...

Fremantle Home Entertainment Grade(s): Academic/AP

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Benign Warfare During WWI: Non-Verbal Truces (SEGMENT)

From Title: Nice Guys Finish First: Game Theory and the Quest for Mutual Cooperation

During WWI, cooperation between opposing armies "broke out like a disease" up and down the trenches. Overt truces were quashed, so soldiers ritualized warfare at times by shooting...

BBC Worldwide Learning Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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France (SEGMENT)

From Title: 1938 (Year by Year: 1929-1967)

Premier Chautemps resigns and Leon Blum forms a new popular front government.

History Education Grade(s): 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Romanticized Air Warfare (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Cavalry of the Clouds

We see footage from an aerial fight. Many British ground soldiers volunteered to become pilots to escape grim trench conditions during World War I.

HTV LIMITED Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Introduction to Battleground (SEGMENT)

From Title: Battleground (The Color of War)

WWII was a global conflict. Fighting ranged from Africa to the islands in the Pacific. Allied troops fought in every theater, exposing them to a diversity of terrain and climate. S...

History Education Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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The Fear: Unrest in Post World War I Germany (SEGMENT)

From Title: Eternal Beauty? The Story of the Third Reich Through Its Own Propaganda

Fear, unrest, violence, and revolution rocked nationalists in 1920s Germany following the end of World War I. During this period sinister characters began to appear in German cinem...

Journeyman Pictures Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Message from Beyond the Grave (SEGMENT)

From Title: War Machine

Fred survived the war and went home to his family. Chas visits Anne, reveals why he has her photograph, and recites a final letter from her dead husband.

BBC Worldwide Learning Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Backlash of World War I (SEGMENT)

From Title: Surrealist Film: The Stuff of Dreams

WWI, a war fought without modern tools and medicine, created huge sectors of artists, politicians, and bohemians from the middle class. Art manifested violent anti-social feelings.

Films for the Humanities & Sciences Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Six-Hour Massacre (SEGMENT)

From Title: The Last Day of World War I

The Armistice signed and the war within 6 hours of ending, French and U.S. officers sent their men into battle to fight and die needlessly. More Americans died on the last day of W...

History Education Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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The War: Propaganda Films and the German War Machine (SEGMENT)

From Title: Eternal Beauty? The Story of the Third Reich Through Its Own Propaganda

Filmmakers helped expel the humiliation of losing World War I from Germany's consciousness with documentaries featuring the destructive power of the Nazi war machine. Battle footag...

Journeyman Pictures Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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War Brings Change (SEGMENT)

From Title: FedFlix: World War I, 1914–1918—Evolution of Modern Warfare, Lesson 8

Panelists discuss vast tactical and technological changes in war that occurred during WWI.

Fedflix Grade(s): Academic/AP

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Endless War (SEGMENT)

From Title: Part 3: The Fire of Life (1910-1919) (The Roosevelts: An Intimate History - A Film by Ken Burns)

Millions died as WWI stretched on. Germany began waging war on all vessels, including American merchant ships. Wilson cut ties with Germany but was reluctant to enter the war. (Gra...

Ken Burns Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Drawn to Victory: Introduction (SEGMENT)

From Title: Drawn To Victory: A Nation Soars

At McMaster University, students examine topographic maps created during WWI. Only one officer and clerk ran the maps general headquarters in France during the outbreak of the war....

Sound Venture Grade(s): 9 - 12, Academic/AP

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