Channel 4 Learning dvds: 20th Century

14 x 20 min programmes

20th CENTURY DVD

With this two-disk DVD we view the twentieth-century world through historical film footage, discovering the various personalities and events that shaped last century. Heroes or Villains draws on ITN's unrivalled news-film archive to build up portraits of eight of the most influential people of the twentieth century. Race in the 20th Century presents historical film in a critical context, seeking to challenge the 'one view' interpretation of history, and Women in the 20th Century presents the changing roles of women in history.

Curriculum Connections

• World study after 1900 
• The twentieth-century world
• British social and economic history
• Civil rights in the USA
• Modern studies
• CCEA syllabus: Germany 1918-1939, Russia 1914-1941, USA 1914-1941
• Peace, war and neutrality
• Modern world history Features
• Using video footage in the classroom will help you to improve results
• DVDs offer greater flexibility and control, making them easy to incorporate into your lessons
• Can be used on computers with DVD-Rom drives and ideal for use on interactive whiteboards
• Fully searchable, allowing you to go straight to what you need
• Fully subtitled Programmes

Heroes or Villains

1. Mao Tse Tung (Unit 22)
2. Ho Chi Minh (Unit 22)
3. Martin Luther King (Unit 22)
4. Fidel Castro (Unit 22)
5. Yasser Arafat (Unit 22)
6. Mikhail Gorbachev (Unit 22)
7. Nelson Mandela (Unit 22)
8. Mahatma Gandhi (Unit 22)

Race in the 20th Century

1. Empire (Units 14, 15)
2. Migration (Unit 15)
3. Civil Rights (Unit 15)

Women in the 20th Century 

1. War (Units 16,17)
2. Family (Unit 16)
3. Work (Unit 16)