Source: Frontline

Reflect on the efforts of Jews living in a modern Germany to balance feelings of guilt, responsibility and fear with the search for ways to forgive and keep the Holocaust a living memory.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: Civics: Current Events/Issues. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Watch as an engineer compares modern bridge-building techniques with those used by the Japanese during World War II. Discover why the building of the Thailand-Burma Railway was such a remarkable engineering feat.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Learn about the section of the railway called Hellfire Pass, discover why the Japanese chose to cut through the mountain outcrop rather than dig a tunnel and determine why hundreds of Allied POWs died in its construction.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Uncover the secrets of the section of the railway that had the largest death toll to discover the cause. Watch as an engineer recreates the type of labor that killed so many POWs while constructing an embankment.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: The War

Examine the invasion of France on June 6th, 1944, or D-Day. Discover how British 6th Airborne troops were successfully dropped on target on the beach while American paratroopers were killed in large numbers while attempting landings in cloudy weather.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: United States History: 1929-1945. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Watch as experts explain two of German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's defensive strategies that were based on his assumption that the Allies would land on Normandy Beach at high tide. Explore Teller mines and so-called hedgehogs.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Learn about the design of the Higgins boat, a flat-bottomed landing craft with ramps for the rapid disembarkation of troops and vehicles. See how the boat's designer fought to convince the Allied Navy to use his craft at Normandy.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Design & Invention. Transportation. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Discover how the Allies managed to send 30-ton tanks across the English Channel. See engineers reconstruct a duplex-drive tank from original blueprints, a design that was an official war secret for years and was based on the Archimedes principle.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. Transportation. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Watch as the Allied plan is described in detail using archive footage and reenactments. Discover why Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower decided to send the invasion force in at low tide, and the pros and cons of that decision.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: Civics: United States Government. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Explore the design of the World War II flail tank, designed to sweep for buried mines and detonate them safely. Discover the bonus feature that allowed these "funnies" to counteract the barbed wire traps set by the Germans on Normandy beaches.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. Transportation. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Understand why the discovery of patches of clay and peat in the terrain of Normandy's beaches posed another problem for invading forces, and determine how a British sports figure, then a Major in the military, provided the solution.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Engineering. Geology & Natural Disasters. Transportation. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: The War

Explore the Marine landing on Iwo Jima through the experiences of two Marines who had been fighting in the Pacific since 1942. Discover how the life of one of the soldiers was saved by another soldier who was killed in the process.

Grade Level: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: United States History: 1929-1945. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Consider how a fragile virus such as influenza can manage to be the most deadly disease known to humankind, including the 1918 pandemic - the worst in the world's history. Learn why it is important to study past outbreaks of the virus.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Social Studies

Topics: Disease. Public/World Health. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Learn about the spread and death toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Consider what scientists today infer from the evidence of the strange color of victims' skin and the fact that the disease seemed to target healthy young adults.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Social Studies

Topics: Disease. Public/World Health. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Discover why commando units from the U.S., Great Britain and Russia competed during the last months of WWII to find Hitler's most advanced weapons and the scientists who created them. Learn about Hitler's so-called vengeance weapons.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: Technology and Civilization. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Learn about Germany's next-generation vengeance weapon, the V-2, and why its creator, Wernher Von Braun, was willing to work for Hitler. Describe the innovations new to this first ballistic missile.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Design & Invention. Energy. Technology and Civilization. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Learn about the Mittelwerks, Von Braun's rocket production facility and the world's largest underground factory. Discover the scale of his weapon-producing operation and the slave labor practices that killed more people than the rockets themselves.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies

Topics: Technology and Civilization. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video

Source: Secrets of the Dead

Discover some of the differences between the resting places of the Titanic and the Andrea Doria wrecks and how those conditions affect the state of the ships. Consider the behavior and reactions of each ship's crew during the catastrophes.

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

Subjects: Science & Tech, Social Studies

Topics: Oceanography. United States History: 1945-early 1970s. World History: 1900-1945.

Resource Type: Video