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The 2008 Wall Street Bailout This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" traces the unprecedented decisions made by the U.S. government to intervene in the financial crisis of 2008. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
21st Century Schools: Learning in the Digital Age From FRONTLINE Digital Nation, this video explores discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Abolitionist Leader William Lloyd Garrison This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” profiles William Lloyd Garrison, founder of The Liberator and a leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society, whose position on the slavery question generated strong and often violent resistance to the abolitionist cause. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Alexander Hamilton: Early Influences In this video segment from American Experience, learn about how the events of Hamilton's youth in the West Indies influenced the direction of his life. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Archaeology This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K looks at some of the objects found in King Tutankhamun's tomb. An Egyptologist discusses the significance of the objects and why the tombs exist. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Are Teens Addicted to Texting? In this resource featuring video segments adapted from Wide Angle Youth Media: “Textaholic,” a teenager explores the role of texting in her life and speculates on whether teens are addicted to texting. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Audrey Hendricks In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Audrey Hendricks recalls her arrest and jailing at the age of nine for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-12	Video
The Bayonet Constitution This video from American Experience describes the events that forced Hawaiian King Kalakaua in 1887 to accept a new constitution for Hawai‘i that limited his power and gave increased influence to white landowners. Accessibility features: Caption	8-12	Video
The Beginning of the Cold War American Experience: This Cold War video examines the steps that Harry Truman took to provide American support for governments threatened by the spread of Communism, a policy that came to be known as the Truman Doctrine. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	9-12	Video
Boston Desegregation This excerpt from WGBH's Evening Compass news program summarizes events of the first year of the 1974 Boston school desegregation plan. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Boston Desegregation Controversy, 1974 In this 1974 television news footage from WGBH: "Evening Compass", citizens stage a protest in response to mandatory busing to desegregate the Boston Public Schools. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Brown: A Landmark Case This video segment describes the players and events of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and how it galvanized the Civil Rights movement as well as white resistance. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Building the Erie Canal In this video segment adapted from American Experience, learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, the biggest public works project of its time. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Bus to the Burbs This video excerpt from La Plaza: "Bus to the Burbs" looks at METCO, a voluntary busing program in Boston. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
A Case for the Separation of Powers This video segment adapted from American Experience introduces how John Adams called for the separation of powers in the Massachusetts Constitution into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
The Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" explores the changes in the U. S. financial market that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Cherokee Alphabet This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: “We Shall Remain” explains how a Cherokee man named Sequoyah developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language, and how that alphabet changed and strengthened Cherokee society. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
A Class Divided 1: The Daring Lesson This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
A Class Divided 2: Day Two This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles the second day of an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Collecting Data Below the Earth's Surface This video segment adapted from Discovering Women demonstrates how scientists use sound waves to collect data about the structure of Earth's crust. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
College, Inc.: The Sales and Marketing Story From FRONTLINE College, Inc., explore the the aggressive marketing practices of for-profit colleges. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Colonel Stone Johnson In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Colonel Stone Johnson describes how civil rights activists were physically attacked for their work. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
A Country Preacher: Rev. De Laine In this video segment produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, the Reverend Joseph De Laine's son and daughter describe his role in the first public school desegregation lawsuit. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Debating Slavery In this video segment adapted from Africans in America, learn how the issue of slavery shaped the debate at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Deciphering the Maya Code This video segment adapted from NOVA examines the ancient Maya writing system and looks at what they recorded in their writings. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Decision in the Streets This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Declaring Freedom...But For Whom? In this video segment adapted from Africans in America, consider the American view of freedom that was defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Earth as a System This visualization adapted from NASA maps progressive global changes onto a rotating globe. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are shown to be dynamic and interconnected. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earthquakes: San Francisco The history of earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area is plotted on a digital map and analyzed in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Effects of the Columbian Exchange This resource featuring video segments adapted from Chronoscope: Exploring 1492: “Columbian Exchange” describes the movement of plants, animals, and disease that characterized the Columbian Exchange and explains how this changed the world. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Eileen Kelley Walbert Eileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Environmentalist Bill McKibben, 1990 In this 1990 archival news footage from Cambridge Community Television, environmentalist Bill McKibben speaks about the possible effects of climate change at an Earth Day celebration in Cambridge, MA. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill This video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Environmental Justice in Dallas Follow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” describes the contributions of Frederick Douglass, a former slave, to the abolitionist movement in the early 1840s. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Exchange Student This video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the experience of Jim Zwerg, a white college student who was among the Freedom Riders seeking to end illegal discrimination against African Americans during the civil rights era. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Fannie Lou Hamer This video segment profiles the life and leadership of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist best known for her stirring testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Flying Cheap: The Crash of Continental Flight 3407 From FRONTLINE Flying Cheap, correspondent Miles O’Brien investigates safety concerns over major airlines outsourcing flights to regional carriers. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation This video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how a group of black and white Americans planned to challenge illegal racial segregation by riding buses across Southern states. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Freedom Riders Create Change This video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" highlights the impact of the 1961 Freedom Rides on the efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Fresh Troops This video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how the Nashville student movement trained future Freedom Riders in nonviolence, and why these students were so essential in sustaining the Freedom Rides. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Geospatial Revolution: Food Deserts Food deserts refer to a lack of easy access to nutritious food. They exist all over America as an outcome of poverty. This video from Penn State Public Broadcasting’s Geospatial Revolution shows how geospatial technology can help change this reality. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
Germany Phases Out Nuclear Power This video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Nuclear Aftershocks" explores the debate behind Germany's decision to phase out its nuclear energy program and revert back to coal as “the bridge” that will eventually allow greater reliance on renewable energy. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Getting an Education This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Global Warming: The Developing World This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the future of global warming as developing nations, including India and China, increase their need for energy. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Governor This video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes Alabama Governor John Patterson's refusal to ensure the safety of the Freedom Riders, despite the efforts of President Kennedy and other federal officials. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” describes how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s best-selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was an act of protest against the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and built support for the abolitionist movement. Accessibility features: Caption	8-12	Video
How the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Were Built This resource featuring video segments adapted from NOVA: “This Old Pyramid” tells the story of the Egyptian pyramids, from the first, relatively small step pyramid to the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
How the Mexican-American War Affected Slavery This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” describes how new territory acquired by the United States in the Mexican-American War, and the Great Compromise of 1850 that it generated, fueled greater division between abolitionists and slave owners. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video