X Greetings! You are not currently logged in, but please don't let that stop you from voting up any videos you like. :)
 by rickegee 
This collective is for movies,music,documentaries,angry rants, and any controversial sifts that would qualify as 'historical documents.' If you believe that any posting is a historical document or provides a competing view contrary to 'accepted' history, then please feel free to post it in this collective. I DO NOT want this to be a collective only of staid government films, videos of Presidents and the powerful giving speeches, or safe-for-toddlers History Channel stuff. What is historically momentous may be subjective. However, personal MySpace video diary 'histories' are discouraged. Please feel free to leave a profile message for me if you would like to join.
Order by:
Hotness | Newness
Display as: Listing | Gallery       17 All The Deaths From 'Total Recall' -- Hint: There's A LotMirror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYNA1Cr4WUo From http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2009/11/total-recall-death-scenes.html and http://digg.com/movies/All_The_Deaths_From_Total_Recall_Hint_There_s_A_Lot_vid ...  28 Visualizing Empires DeclineWait for it... A brilliant visualization of the four great european maritime empires' evolution from 1800 until today, using soft bodies.   18 Why Did The Church Cross The Street?I'm just amused at the fact that while the building suffered no damage during the move, it still ended up in two pieces.  19 Video Toaster - computer magic anno 1990A fun look at the Video Toaster for the Amiga computer, amazing in 1990 :) And if I read my history books correctly, this program was behind CGI magic in the first season of Babylon 5.  12 Nostradamus 2012 End Time"The program is actually a sequel to "The Lost Book of Nostradamus," and claims that it will separate long standing historical predictions, and actual facts."  23 Largest non-nuclear explosion in history (for a while)On April 5, 1958 an underwater mountain, Ripple Rock, was decapitated by the explosion of 1,375 tonnes of Nitramex 2H (an ammonium nitrate based explosive). The destruction of Ripple Rock was a brilliant... more inside  18 Don't you just love her accent? There's something about itShe had me at "An explosive anniversary-". I love how subtle her accent is while still being evident. The rest of the broadcast is not bad either.
"Ripple Rock was an underwater, twin-peaked mountain... more inside  86 Dock Ellis and the LSD No-NoAwesome animation of an awesome true story. The funk accompaniment alone is worth price of admission.  89 Germans in the Woods86-year-old World War II veteran Joseph Robertson fought at the Battle of the Bulge. Over 60 years later, he still can't forget one soldier he killed there.  10 The History of Western Philosophy in Under Nine MinutesThis video presents 2500 years of philosophy in under 9 minutes. It is the most cursory overview imaginable:Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Acquinas, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley,... more inside  12 Eskimo Hunters - 1949 FilmA film from 1949 featuring an Eskimo family from Alaska. (Canadian Inuit prefer to be called 'Inuit' - Alaskan Inuit prefer being called 'Eskimos').
My father was born in 1950, and grew up in a way... more inside  15 The last CalligraphersTrailer for a documentary about the last hand-printed newspaper in Asia. Printed with the art of Urdu calligraphy Found at http://musalman.100hands.net  16 Broadway by Day (1930)seems to be a promotional film for the great white way. quite a charming look back on NYC.  26 In Flanders FieldsOn Wikipedia
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
... more inside  21 London in 1927 - Early Colour Silent FilmLondon is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.
London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering... more inside 50 The Decade in Seven MinutesNewsweek reviews the first decade of the 21st Century in seven minutes.  10 "Puttin' On The Ritz" / Protect and Survive mashupClever: clips of the (in)famous, scary "Protect and Survive" British civil defence films neatly edited in with an old-timey toe-tapper of a song. | Top Sift for Nov 20th, 2009Friends O' the Sift Top New History Videos by Vote  Subscribe Top 15 History Sifters of All Time Top 11 History Sifters of the Past Week Newest Appreciated Comments        |
Sifted History Videos
