NC LIVE Video Resources
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Films on Demand
Films on Demand provides high quality streaming videos in many subject areas. The videos include documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
More Free Lectures
Openculture.com has lists of courses that can be watched or listened to for free online. Some courses are available on YouTube, some on iTunes, and some can be viewed on both. These classes are from universities around the world and have a variety of topics to choose from. In addition to the topics below, feel free to explore any of these courses. The sections of Archealogy and Anthropology may be relevent to this class as well.
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Free History CoursesThis is a list of history courses that can be listened to or watched for free online.
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Free Classics CoursesScroll down to the Classics section for free courses about the Ancient World.
DVD's in the Library
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How the Earth Changed History
Call Number: GF 51 .H69 2010Documentary, History
Argues that various natural forces - including climate, geology and geography - have dramatically guided human history, to a greater degree than many have traditionally thought possible. -
Story of India, The
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Call Number: DS 436 .S85 2008 DVDPublication Date: 2008Documentary, History
Presents the tale of the world's oldest and most diverse civilization as well as its largest democracy. A nuclear power and a rising giant, India's population will overtake China's within 10 years and its economy predicted to overtake the U.S.'s in the 2030s. -
Islamic Art: mirror of the invisible world
Call Number: N 6260 .I85 2011 (NDC, OCC)Documentary, History
Reveals the riches of Muslim arts, crafts, and architecture. Exploring distant locations and many rare art pieces, the film illuminates the history of the Islamic world as it developed over centuries and as it is today.
Free Online History Lectures
Each of these links leads to a series of lectures on YouTube that make up an entire course on World History taught at Columbia University. The Professor teaching the courses is Richard Bulliet, one of the authors of the textbook for this class. Each lecture is approximately one hour and fifteen minutes long and they are titled with the main subjects that are covered in within that time.