History

Featuring film footage from ITN's unrivalled news film archive, students witness historical events as they happened, including Malcolm X's civil rights interview and the release of Nelson Mandela, to the dreadful end of the Hindenburg airship.

There are 23 topics available through Clipbank for teaching history:

British study

  • Medieval Life
  • Industrial Revolution
  • World War
  • World War II
  • British women
  • Britain and Ireland
  • Interwar unrest

International study

  • The road to WWI
  • The Great War
  • Interwar diplomacy
  • World War II
  • Superpowers
  • End of the Cold war

World study

  • Civil Rights in the USA
  • The Holocaust
  • Germany 1919–45
  • USSR 1914–1953
  • The USA 1919–1941
  • Vietnam 1954–1975
  • Middle East 1918–present
  • China 1923–1989
  • India 1900–1949

History sample videos

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Over the Top 1918

A Thousand Suns – Hiroshima

Farm work through the year

When the Berlin Wall Comes Down