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