Andrew McGill

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Two decades after invading Afghanistan, the United States is withdrawing, leaving chaos in its wake and the country much as it found it twenty years ago. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 8-16-21):NEWS REPORT: The Taliban don’t just control Kabul, they control the whole country. NARRATION: How did […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Many schools will hold classes this summer for students who have fallen behind academically after a year of remote learning. ARCHIVAL (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2-23-16):CLASSROOM OF CHILDREN: One, two three, four. ZAKIYAH ANSARI: If we know general education children are suffering, then there’s no doubt […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. BRUCE MCINTYRE: Amber was so excited about starting this new chapter and becoming a mother. She would come to me every week. The baby’s the size of an orange. The baby’s the size of a troll doll. Things like–every week. BEARING THE BURDEN: BLACK MOTHERS […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL:ANNOUNCER: Suppose for a moment that the lights of this theater of ours went dark. What then? What would serve instead? NARRATION: Covid 19 isn’t the first time Hollywood has been disrupted by a pandemic – the 1918 flu influenced the strategy of studio titan […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1953):NEWS REEL: South Korean villages awoke to a world suddenly filled with noise and flame. The Communists had finally launched their undeclared, all-out war of conquest! NARRATION: In the summer of 1950, the U.S. watched with alarm as North Korean Communists invaded […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (CIVIL DEFENSE FILM, 1957):[Sirens] This is not a test. The United States is under nuclear attack. NARRATION: In the 1950s and ‘60s, a government campaign made sure that Americans were prepared for the possibility of a nuclear attack from our main adversary, the Soviet […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (WPA FILM LIBRARY, 1950s):JOSEPH MCCARTHY: This fight to expose those who would destroy this nation will go on and on. GEOFFREY KABASERVICE (AUTHOR, “RULE AND RUIN”): Populism is a force that is as old as the American republic. It tends to become very much […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (NASA):Nine. Ignition sequence start. Six, five, four…. NARRATION: We remember the science and engineering that first put a man on the moon. ARCHIVAL (APOLLO 11 LIFT OFF, 7-16-19):NASA ANNOUNCER: We have lift off! NARRATION: But there was also another story. DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT (CO-AUTHOR, […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. LINDA KAY KLEIN: We are the legacy of the purity movement, the people who grew up in it, who grapple with its impacts every day. NARRATION: As a Christian teenager growing up in the Midwest in the 1990s, Linda Kay Klein got swept up in […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Black Americans are dying from Covid at twice the rate of whites, as long-standing racial disparities in health are made more apparent by the pandemic — disparities with deep roots in the nation’s past. STACEY D. STEWART: If you’ve been generationally denied access to […]