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History.com   http://www.history.com/videos from the tv show. Videos on various history topics. Some are full episodes.

How stuff works   http://videos.howstuffworks.com/history   has videos about history, geography, health, other topics.

Wide Angle video bank from WNET in NY   http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/wideangle/video_bank.html   videos of several themes, conflict, migration, human rights, power, economics. Stories about the people. Also here   http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/category/video/watch-full-episodes/   from PBS

Economic network   http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/teaching/video.htm   on many topics, some of which are history or related. I also can't seem to load some of them.

Archives.org   http://www.archive.org/details/movies   had movies on lots of topics. In particular, look at this category   http://www.archive.org/details/newsandpublicaffairs

Kenneth Pomeranz Explores Reasons Why the Industrial Revolution Succeeded in Europe But Failed in East Asia
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/kennethPomeranz_lecture/

Academic Earth   http://academicearth.org/subjects/history   has some history lectures of interest.

video lectures   http://videolectures.net/Top/Society/Politics/   has some political lectures that might be of interest, for example, Democracy as a Concept of Political Responsibility of the People.

itunes university http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ bunch of on line lectures. I'm not sure how to get specific lectures from here, but many universities seem to have itunes, like
Stanford, http://itunes.stanford.edu/
UC Berkely   http://itunes.berkeley.edu/

youtube education   http://www.youtube.com/education    has some lectures of interest. For example:
   Stanford University lectures   http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stanford+university&aq=f   with some of historical interest

   There is also Utube University   http://www.youtube.com/education?category=University with some history videos.


Youtube has other misc videos of interest, but have to search.
Joseph Stiglitz - Problems with GDP as an Economic Barometer   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUaJMNtW6GA&feature=fvwrel

The Story of Stuff   http://www.youtube.com/storyofstuffproject   videos on a number of topics.
One is The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011) http://www.youtube.com/storyofstuffproject#p/a/u/1/k5kHACjrdEY    about how corporations became "people" so they could contribute to political campaigns.   The Story of Stuff project is here   http://www.storyofstuff.org/   which links to videos etc. Don't know why but I can't control volume on the story of stuff website.
   The story of stuff is listed here
   http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/resources.cfm
   http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/ocean_guardian/resources.html

Youtube also has a teachers history channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers by Amy Burvall   http://www.amyburvall.com/
Some ... interesting presentations, such as

The Mahabharata (music is "Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band) http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers#p/a/u/0/xKn7-xXyLpY with this description "How do you compress 100,000 verses into a 4 minute song? You can't. But we tried to hit some of the main points of the epic Indian work."

The Trojan War (music is "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell) http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers#p/a/u/1/CiQ4j-D5o4o

Civilization (music is "Harajuku Girls" by Gwen Stefani) http://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers#p/u/46/c1g60SSGmeY with this description "What are the basic elements that make up a civilization? This music video tells you. Made by history teachers with a lot of time on their hands. And lots of costumes. And wigs."

Hulu has some history videos like   http://www.hulu.com/empires   about empires, and Israel. I think these are from PBS

American Experience   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/   various topics in US history

Research Channel at you tube   http://www.youtube.com/ResearchChannel

        The Digital Evolution and International Competitiveness http://www.youtube.com/ResearchChannel#p/u/20/v4GmvYGXUQM

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last updated 1/15/12
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Research Channel   http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/   Also lectures, long list of social science related lectures, kind of hard to find the ones of interest. Some examples are Eight Questions About Globalization and Global Aging: A World-Wide Concern. They say they are trying to bring it back.