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.
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation...
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 the Second World War, every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Hitler regime that find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record.
One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Michael Douglas provides the sparse narration throughout the film.
What, if anything, can be learned by studying history? This is the question Will and Ariel Durant...
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards.
This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from prehistoric times to 1500.
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.