StudentCam 2026 Documentary Competition Theme Announced: "America's 250th Anniversary!"
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Lesson Plan: Introduction to the Principles of Democracy (7 clips)
Bell Ringer: Authoritarianism (3:24)
Bell Ringer: Communism and Socialism (6:13)
Bell Ringer: Joseph Labadie Anarchy Collection (6:10)
Bell Ringer: Prosecuting War Crimes (9:44)
Bell Ringer: National Sovereignty and the Treaty of Westphalia (3:16)
Lesson Plan: Globalization - Twentieth Century International Organizations (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer Globalization and the Interdependence of Governments (3:40)
Bell Ringer: What is Sovereignty? (2:15)
Lesson Plan: The Structure of the United Nations (8 Clips)
On this Day: The United Nations Charter (6 clips)
Lesson Plan: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (10 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Changing Dynamics of the International Cooperation (2:09)
Bell Ringer: The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Outlawing of War (4:32)
Bell Ringer: How does NATO work? (2:47)
Bell Ringer: NATO Treaty - Article 5 (1:49)
Video Clip: Justice Department Charges Four Russians with War Crimes (4:55)
Bell Ringer: Japanese Prime Minister Kishida on U.S. Global Role (5:13)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Foreign Policy and Interventionism vs. Isolationism (6:33)
Video Clip: Globalism vs. "America First" (2:15)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Global Leadership Role (4:11)
Bell Ringer: The Role of the Secretary of State (2:18)
Bell Ringer: The Decreased Role of the State Department in Foreign Policy (3:43)
Lesson Plan: Goals of U.S. Foreign Policy (9 Clips)
Deliberation: What is the best approach to US foreign policy in the 21st century?
Lesson Plan: The Future of US Foreign Policy (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Tools of Foreign Policy (10 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Immigrant Workers and the H-1B Visa Program (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: State Department Human Rights Report (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: U.S. Agency for Global Media (12 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the Building of the Berlin Wall (5 clips)
On This Day: Fall of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Major Events of the Cold War (14 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Containment and U.S. Strategy During the Cold War (4:30)
Bell Ringer: The Truman Doctrine (4:41)
On This Day: Marshall Plan (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Glasnost and Perestroika (2 Clips)
Video Clip: The End of the Cold War (1:39)
Lesson Plan: The Microchip Industry (11 Clips & Slides)
Bell Ringer: Japanese and American Economic Collaboration (2:48)
Bell Ringer: Principles of Market Capitalism (5:16)
Bell Ringer: What does Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Measure? (4:42)
Lesson Plan: Is GDP an Accurate Measure of our Country's Economic Health? (3 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Trade Policy: Tariffs and Free Trade (9 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Replacing NAFTA: The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Goals and Origins of the World Bank (3:30)
Bell Ringer: International Monetary Fund (7:10)
Bell Ringer: What are Tariffs and How do They Work (3:09)
Bell Ringer: Foreign Aid (5:01)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Trade Policy (6:30)
Bell Ringer: What are Sanctions? (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The History of Tariffs in the United States (8 Clips)
On This Day: OPEC Oil Embargo (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The 2008 Financial Crisis (4:06)
On This Day: 2008 Financial Crisis (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer The Evolution from Free Market to a Mixed Economy in the United States. (4:17)
Bell Ringer Centrally Planned Economy (4:35)
Bell Ringer: Exchange Rate Imbalances (3:38)
Bell Ringer: Worker Productivity (1:54)
Bell Ringer The Reagan Administration and the AIDS Crisis (5:01)
Bell Ringer The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Federal Bureaucracy (5:52)
Bell Ringer: Global Food Insecurity (5:12)
Bell Ringer The Battle to End Malaria in the US (;6:32)
Bell Ringer: History of Vaccines (6:12)
Lesson Plan Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer Role of the World Health Organization (3:27)
Lesson Plan Role of the World Health Organization (5 clips)
Bell Ringer: Africa and COVID (4:02)
Lesson Plan: The Paris Climate Agreement and Future Global Climate Policies (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Cap and Trade Policies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions (3:16)
Bell Ringer: Climate Change and Skepticism (2:50)
Deliberation Should the federal government implement the Green New Deal?
Bell Ringer Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change (3:24)
Lesson plan Deliberation - What should the US policy be towards the use of fossil fuels? (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan What strategies should the US adopt to address Climate Change? (7 clips)
Bell Ringer: Introduction to the Rule of Law (1:17)
Bell Ringer: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (7:09)
Deliberation: Should the U.S. grant asylum to refugees displaced from nations that have state-sponsored terrorism?
Lesson Plan: Refugees & National Security (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Black Lives Matter Movement (3:05)
Lesson Plan U.S. Intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Genocide (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Concept of Total War (3:03)
Bell Ringer: Reasons for War and its Ramifications (11:05)
Bell Ringer: Foreign Policy and America's Geography (2:49)
Bell Ringer: How North Korea Developed its Nuclear Weapons Program (1:30)
Bell Ringer: The War on Terror (4:14)
Bell Ringer: The Size of the US Nuclear Arsenal and the START Agreement (2:46)
Bell Ringer: Nuclear-Armed Nations (3:03)
Bell Ringer: The Role of U.S. Cyber Command (2:10)
Bell Ringer: Presidential Power and Nuclear Weapons (2:52)
Bell Ringer: U.S. Hostage Policy (5:05)
On This Day: Cuban Missile Crisis (6 Clips)
On This Day: Oklahoma City Bombing (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Oklahoma City Bombing (4 Clips)
On This Day: September 11, 2001 (11 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Decision to Invade Iraq (6:21)
Video Clip: The Bush Doctrine (4:29)
On This Day: Iraq War (8 Clips)
On This Day: U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The History and Rise of ISIS (4:55)
On This Day: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Guantanamo Bay Detainees (3:02)
Deliberation: Has the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had a positive or negative impact? (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer: United States - Korea Relations (11:36)
Bell Ringer: Kim Jong Un and Stability in North Korea (4:47)
Bell Ringer: The Future of American and Chinese Economic Power (9:42)
Bell Ringer: Ethnic Divisions in Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy (4:02)
Bell Ringer: China and 21st Century Technologies (5:39)
Bell Ringer: The Creation of Israel (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: 1956 Suez Crisis (14:52)
Video Clip: Camp David Accords (6:09)
On This Day: Operation Desert Shield and the beginning of the Gulf War (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Operation Desert Storm (7:11)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Syrian Civil War (5:47)
Bell Ringer: Suppression of Protests in Iran (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Iran Hostage Crisis (7:19)
Lesson Plan: The Iran Hostage Crisis (8 Clips)
Video Clip: Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini (2:12)
Video Clip: The History and Politics of the Iranian Regime (2:56)
Bell Ringer: Ethnic Divisions and the Struggle for Democracy in Iraq (4:04)
On This Day: Iran-Contra (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Iran-Contra Affair (7:11)