World History Audio & Video

This audio program offers speeches from a wide variety of thinkers and leaders. You will here important statements made by Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Royalty, Statesman civil rights advocates and more.

Listen to Lincoln's most famous speech. American Rhetoric offers the speech in four different versions, one narrated by musician Johnny Cash, and the others read by actors Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterson, and Jim Getty.

Listen to this abridged edition of Winston Churchill's monumental six-part series called The Second World War. Published between 1948 and 1953, this series of books was largerly responsible for Churchill receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.

In 1968, Will and Ariel Durant summarized some of the periods and trends in history they had recognized from their study of 5,000 years of world history in their short work The Lessons of History.

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.

In his own irreverent style Dan Carlin attacks the historical record in the Hardcore History Podcast. Each month, Carlin selects a different topic or person in history...

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

The dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics....

This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from prehistoric times to 1500.