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Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill: Do Your Worst

Winston Churchill Biography in Sound on Old Time Radio Programs

Winston Churchill’s famous 1942 speech in the U.S., “Now we are masters of our fate”


brief clip from Winston Churchill’s 1940 speech

Winston Churchill’s speech about the Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches

Churchill’s speech about the German surrender:


Historic footage of VE Day in London, 8th May, 1945

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick related to a study of World War 2.

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Fall of the Berlin wall, 1989, published under GNU Free Documentation License by copyright holder Lear 21

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ABC News Broadcast of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Here is another video clip, this time of Regan at the Brandenburg Gate, pleading with Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall!”

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Click here to see a Cold War Era project pack for 7th grade and above from CurrClick. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

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Panama Canal video

Here is an interesting time-lapse video showing the journey of a cruise ship through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In less than 2 minutes you’ll get a good understanding of the length of the canal and how a ship moves through the locks.

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Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used while studying the Panama Canal. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Attack, Griffith Bailey Coale

CBS Football Broadcast War Bulletin

FDR’s Pearl Harbor address

CBS John Charles Daly Reports Pearl Harbor Attack


Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

CBS Joint Congress Session Declaration of War Proceedings

You can find more audio and video of FDR’s Fireside chats, presidential addresses and much more at The American Presidency Project. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School!

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Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick related to a study of World War 2.

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Tiananmen Square

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June 4, 1989

Video of the lone protester in Tiananmen Square, who has become a symbol of courage and the desire for freedom.

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Eric Liddell

The Torchlighters animated children’s series about Christian Heroes is very well done. Here is a preview:

Netflix subscribers can stream Chariots of Fire,the Academy Award winning movie about Eric Liddell, from their home computer. Here is the original trailer:

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Early America videos

Colonel Benedict Arnold

Archiving Early America has several videos about the founding of our country.  Click here to view their full list and to play the videos, which include:

  • The Ben Franklin Story
  • The Life of George Washington
  • Declaring Independence
  • Paul Revere, Messenger of the Revolution
  • The Shot Heard Around the World
  • The Treason of Benedict Arnold
  • The Real Face of George Washington (video about Mount Rushmore)
  • Molly Pitcher, and American Heroine

These videos play in FLASH, so you will need to have the flash plugin software installed on your computer to watch them.

Kids, please get permission from an adult before leaving My Audio School.

Click here to see downloadable curriculum from CurrClick which could be used to enhance a study of Colonial America.

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Annie Oakley

Cavalcade of America: 1874, Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison’s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses)in Darke County, Ohio. Nevertheless, she was a staple in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and similar wild west companies. Because of her diminutive stature, she was billed as “Little Sure Shot.”

The man assisting her is this appearance is probably her husband, Frank E. Butler. Annie had outshot Butler (a famous dead-eye marksman himself) in a shooting contest in the 1880’s. Instead of nursing his bruised ego because he had been throughly outgunned by a woman, Butler fell in love, married Little Sure Shot, and became her manager.

Theirs was a solid and happy marriage that lasted 44 years, and when Annie died on November 3, 1926, at age 66, a heartbroken Butler followed her to the grave 18 days later. [Summary from Internet Archive accompanying this footage]

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Norman Rockwell

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Norman Rockwell, an American Icon

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First Moon Landing 1969

Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.  His words, “One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind” became legendary.

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Dangerous Journey video

Pilgrim's Progress, Cole Thomas, The Cross and the World Study for The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey 1846-48

Answers in Genesis has made the Dangerous Journey video available for free on their site.  Dangerous Journey is a children’s book based on Pilgrim’s Progress.  This video has a narrator reading the book, and shows images from the drawings in the book.

To view the video of Dangerous Journey, click on this link. This will take you away from My Audio School.  Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

When you get to the Answers in Genesis site, page down and click “Dangerous Journey, part 1”. There are 9 parts to this video series, and you can access them all for free at the above link.  They won’t stream continuously, however.  After watching each section, you’ll need to click on the next section to view it.