year 8 history resources

Interesting films, documentaries, books and YouTube videos hand picked by your History teachers to support your studies.

Movies / TV Series

Horrible Histories – Netflix

Journey's End

War Horse

My Boy Jack

1917

Lincoln

Amistad

Roots

Sarajevo

Good Night Mr Tom

Documentaries

They Shall Not Grow Old directed by Peter Jackson

The Machine Gun with Neil Oliver

Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners

World War 1 in Colour

Books

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

Journeys End by Simon Reade

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer

Where the Poppies Now Grow by Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey

White Feather by Catherine MacPhail and David MacPhail

Stories of the First World War by Jim Eldrige

Frightful First World War by Terry Deary

Freedom by Catherine Johnson

My Story: Slave Girl by Patricia C McKissack

The Story of Slavery by Courtauld

Unheard Voices by Malorie Blackman

YouTube Videos