Watch over 90 free short historical documentaries on the Lucasfilm YouTube channel. These well-written documentaries were produced by George Lucas to accompany the three seasons of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, which were released in 2007 and 2008. Each documentary runs about 20-30 minutes and covers a particular historical figure or event from World history or American history. They feature a narrator telling the story, along with interviews from authors and experts throughout the documentary. They also feature excellent photos and footage from the historical period. They've been collected on a YouTube playlist, which also features three historical lectures by the popular historian H.W. Brands.
You can learn about such diverse figures as Franz Kafka, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Annie Besant, Edgar Degas, William Butler Yeats, George S. Patton, Louis Armstrong, Carl Jung, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Albert Schweitzer, Aristotle, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, and many more. Or learn about topics such as archaeology, women's suffrage, jazz, ecology, modern art, prohibition, ballet, Eastern spirituality, slavery, and more. And coming from producer George Lucas, there are also numerous documentaries on early Hollywood.