Films/Clips/Materials

The following films, clips, and materials might be utilized this year to support and enhance curricula.  All films and clips are at or below the PG-13 rating.  

• DiscoveryEd

• Purdue Owl Writing Lab

• Grammarly 

• Night at the Museum 

• Night at the Museum 2

• National Treasure 

• National Treasure 2

• This is America, Charlie Brown 

• Library of Congress

• Sir Francis Drake’s Maps - West Indian Voyage

• Newsela Articles on Early Explorers 

• Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel - Part II

• America Unearthed:  New Clues to the Lost Colony of Roanoke (documentary)

• Newsela: Jamestown Archeology 

• Nightmare in Jamestown (documentary)

• Salem Witch Trials Museum, MA 

• iCivics Games 

• Rebels with a Cause

• The Patriot (2000- edited by CleanFilms.com)

• Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer (YouTube)

• I’m Just a Bill - SchoolHouse Rock

• Race to Ratify -iCivics

• The Whiskey Rebellion (article)

• Excerpts from Washington’s letters to Hamilton and Jefferson

• Hamilton and Jefferson - The Men and Their Philosophies (article)

• John Adams (2008)

• Lewis & Clark (1997)

• The Great Journey West (2002)

• Thomas Jefferson  (1997)

• The War of 1812  (2005)

• The Star Spangled Banner

• Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 10: “Revolutions” (2012)

• Alamo (2004)

• One Hundred Years Hence (The Hutchinson Family Singers)

• Excerpts on the War with Mexico

• Primary Source American Progress, John Gast

• America:  The Story of Us (2010)

• Civil War - Animated Map (Battlefields.org)

• Blue or Gray: A Family Divided by the Civil War (National Geographic, 2003)

• Unchained Memories  (2003)

• America: This Story of Us (2010)

• Glory  (1989- edited by CleanFilms.com)

• The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007)

• History Channel - The Presidents 

• American Battlefield Trust 

• Crash Course World History