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Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.

How cool is this? A (hopefully legal...) collection of free documentaries. There are 61 full-length history documentaries at the moment including 'Fog of War', a documentary about the Kennedy administration.

Information on the documentary Peoples Century 1919-15

"It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience. You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher."

Great Series on the Eastern Front of WWII. Useful for TOK discussions as well. 

documentary and transcript

A site with over 200 free documentaries on the topic of history. Sorry for the vague tags on sites like this, but the collection is so eclectic that it's hard to be thorough. Searching for region and time period should yield results when you're looking later.

Collection of the papers of Jefferson Davis, the president of the South during the American Civil War. Nice-looking chap.

The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this web site. The site also provides extensive information on Davis and his family and numerous images.

A highly interactive site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the 1930s where students can view primary sources from the period, including video and audio materials, as well as make their own documentary movies.

A new PBS documentary For Love of Liberty : The Story of America's Black Patriots, details the military contributions of African Americans.

Has historical films. Some of them are the excellent films produced by Niall Ferguson. Possible to download if you're crafty :) 

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War.

2007 documentary, the ultimate history via conspiracy theories. Collection of criticism at the bottom of its Wikipedia entry is helpful.

documentaries on native americans and Rwanda reconciliation

Three short embedded videos on the Russian Revolution