Videos

toc Click the subject headings in the table of contents to the right to go directly to a topic. //Please feel free to add to this list, if you know of good online videos for social studies classes.//
 * __YOU WILL FIND LINKS TO SOCIAL STUDIES VIDEOS BELOW__**

**__General__**

 * [|Top Documentary Films]: This web site gives you access to tons of videos that you can stream for free.
 * [|CosmoLearning]: There are many more documentaries that can be streamed for free on this web site.
 * [|Khan Academy]: The **Khan Academy** is a [|not-for-profit] educational organization created in 2006, by [|Salman Khan]. With the stated [|mission] of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of over 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics. (From Wikipedia)
 * [|PBS Frontline]: Frontline is a PBS program that does weekly news shows that are investigative in nature. Their web site has links to hundreds of programs, many related to social studies in some way.

**__Current Events__**

 * [|Restrepo]: The film follows the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company on a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley of northeast Afghanistan. It chronicles the lives of the men from their deployment to the time of their return home. (Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Commando - On the Front Line]: Director Chris Terrill embarks on a courageous 12-month journey to Afghanistan alongside Britain’s most elite front line troops – the Royal Marine Commandos.
 * [|Showdown With Iran]: This PBS Frontline report focuses on the tumultuous U.S.-Iran relations since 9/11,and examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have served to strengthen Iran’s position as an emerging power in the Middle East.

**__European History__**

 * [|The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization]: The lavish and lengthy production of PBS’s //The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization// is a fitting tribute to the glory of ancient Greece, telling the story of Greek democracy from its first stirrings in 500 B.C. through to the cataclysmic wars that virtually destroyed the empire. (From Top Documentary Films Web Site)
 * [|Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire]: //Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire// is a BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Empire. (Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Pompeii - The Last Day]: //Pompeii: The Last Day// is a dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Western Civilization - Is the West History?]:
 * [|Marie Anoinette]: "Marie Antoinette, the young and beautiful Austrian princess who was strategically married into the most prestigious monarchy in Europe, was to become the symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century aristocracy and was to be France’s last queen. This is the story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history. Filmed in France and Austria, with rare access to Versailles, Le Petit Trianon, and the Austro-Hungarian palaces of her youth, Marie Antoinette will tell the intensely human story of the often misunderstood monarch who was beheaded during the turbulence and horror of the French revolution." (From Top Documentary Films Web Site)
 * [|Russian Revolution]
 * **__From Khan Academy__**
 * 1) [|French Revolution (Part 1)]
 * 2) [|French Revolution (Part 2)]
 * 3) [|French Revolution (Part 3) - Reign of Terror]
 * 4) [|French Revolution (Part 4) - The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte]
 * 5) [|Haitian Revolution (Part 1)]
 * 6) [|Haitian Revolution (Part 2)]
 * 7) [|Napoleon and the Wars of the First and Second Coalitions]
 * 8) [|Napoleon and the War of the Third Coalition]
 * 9) [|Napoleon and the War of the Fourth Coalition]
 * 10) [|Napoleon's Peninsular Campaigns]
 * 11) [|French Invasion of Russia]
 * 12) [|Napoleon Forced to Abdicate]


 * [|The World at War]: The World at War is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II and the events leading up to and immediately following it. (From CosmoLearning)
 * [|World War II - Behind Closed Doors]: This a documentary film on the role of Joseph Stalin during World War II. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Hunt for Hitler's Scientists]: The British, American, and Russian governments were not content to sit idly by, waiting to be slammed by the advanced technology. Covert teams of commandos and agents were sent ahead of the front lines and deep into Germany, hunting for both the weapons and the scientists and engineers who’d created them. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Cold War]: CNN's 24-episode documentary on the Cold War.
 * [|Commanding Heights]: This is a PBS series on many aspects of economics in the twentieth century. The first program focuses on the ideological battle between //Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire// is a BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Empire.communism and capitalism. The second program focuses on the changes that took place in China, India and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. The final program focuses on the new era of globalization that followed the Cold War.

**__The Americas__**

 * [|The Haitian Revolution**﻿﻿ -** Toussaint Louverture]**:**"The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic - traumatizing Southern planters, inspiring U.S. Blacks, and invigorating anti-slavery activist world-wide. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike." (Top Documentary Films Web Site)
 * [|Haiti Earthquake]: A related video is a PBS Frontline video aired in January 2011 about Haiti a year after the earthquake.
 * **__From Khan Academy__**
 * 1) [|Haitian Revolution (Part 1)]
 * 2) [|Haitian Revolution (Part 2)]
 * 3) [|US History Overview 1: Jamestown to the Civil War]
 * 4) [|US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression]
 * 5) [|US History Overview 3 - WWII to Vietnam]
 * [|Philosophy]: "Who dares think a nation? What is the status of philosophy in a nation founded by philosophers? What are the risks of practicing philosophy in America? Does America have a //native// philosophy? Eight short films about philosophy in America and American philosophy by Phillip McReynolds. The author is a philosophy lecturer and amateur filmmaker. He has recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with professional philosophers and other people and he’s interested in different ways to bring philosophy to film." (Top Documentary Films Web Site)
 * [|Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War]: //Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War//, a 26-part Canadian television documentary on the Vietnam War, was produced in 1980 by Michael Maclear.
 * [|The Most Dangerous Man in America]: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg shook America to its foundations when he smuggled a top-secret Pentagon study to the New York Times.
 * [|Titanic's Final Momements]: Dramatic new revelations about the fate of the world’s most famous ship. In 2005, an expedition to explore the wreckage made an interesting discovery south of the stern’s debris field. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Shouting Fire - Stories From the Edge of Free Speech]: This documentary film look at the changing interpretations of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution – laws and court cases that have alternatively broadened and narrowed the amendment’s protection of free speech and assembly.

**__World History__**

 * [|How Earth Made Us]: This series tells the story of how the Earth has influenced human history, from the dawn of civilization to the modern industrial age. It reveals for the first time on television how geology, geography and climate have been a far more powerful influence on the human story than has previously been acknowledged. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|What The Ancients Did For Us]: Step back in time to discover how the world was shaped by the ancient Chinese, the Mesopotamians, the Arabs and even the Ancient Britons. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * Queen of Sheba - Behind the Myth: //Queen Of Sheba: Behind The Myth// follows the work of archaeologists as they piece together newly discovered evidence in the remote desert of Yemen to recreate the dramatic life of one of the most powerful woman of the Biblical era – consort of King Solomon and founder of the great Ethiopian dynasty that would harbor the Ark Of The Covenant.
 * [|Commanding Heights]:This is a PBS series on many aspects of economics in the twentieth century. The first program focuses on the ideological battle between communism and capitalism. The second program focuses on the changes that took place in China, India and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. The final program focuses on the new era of globalizatio that followed the Cold War.
 * [|The World at War]: The World at War is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II and the events leading up to and immediately following it. (From CosmoLearning)

**__Asian History__**

 * [|Confucius - Words of Wisdom]: History Channel Biography of Confucius.
 * [|The Samurai]: They were the knights of medieval Japan, an elite warrior class that held the reins of power and the fascination of the people for more than 700 years. Masters of sword and bow, driven by an unforgiving code of ethics, they proved ferocious in combat. They beat back foreign invaders and fought each other for land, status, honor and glory. //The Samurai// explores the extraordinary legacy of martial artistry, ceremony, self-discipline and tenacity in battle that reaches to this day. (From Top Documentary Films)

**__History of Science__**

 * [|Aristotle's Lagoon]: In the 4th century BC the Greek philosopher Aristotle traveled to Lesvos, an island in the Aegean teeming, then as now, with wildlife. His fascination with what he found there, and his painstaking study of it, led to the birth of a new science – biology. Professor Armand Leroi follows in Aristotle’s footsteps to discover the creatures, places and ideas that inspired the philosopher in his pioneering work. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Darwin's Dangerous Idea]: Andrew Marr explores how Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Genius of Charles Darwin]: //The Genius of Charles Darwin// is a three-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion]: This is the story of how history made science and how science made history, and how the ideas which emerged made the modern world. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Darwin's Struggle - The Evolution of the Origin of the Species]: Documentary telling the little-known story of how Darwin came to write his great masterpiece, [|On the Origin of Species], a book which explains the wonderful variety of the natural world as emerging out of death and the struggle of life. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|What Darwin Didn't Know]: The theory of evolution by natural selection is now scientific orthodoxy, but when it was unveiled it caused a storm of controversy, from fellow scientists as well as religious people. They criticized it for being short on evidence and long on assertion and Darwin, being the honest scientist that he was, agreed with them. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Living Edens]: Planet Earth is still home to places so pure they have become precious reminders of how all the world – the ancient, timeless Earth – once looked. From the icy mountains of Denali to the aqua blue seas of Costa Rica, we witness dramas unfold among the animal inhabitants as they have since the beginning of time.

**__Economics__**

 * [|Commanding Heights]: This is a PBS series on many aspects of economics in the twentieth century. The first program focuses on the ideological battle between communism and capitalism. The second program focuses on the changes that took place in China, India and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. The final program focuses on the new era of globalization that followed the Cold War.
 * [|Game Theory]: Introductory course on game theory delivered by John Fountain at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Econ 223 is a **//multi-disciplinary//**course at the University of Canterbury. (From CosmoLearning)
 * [|Inside the Meltdown]: PBS Frontline documentary on the financial crisis in 2008-2009.
 * [|Argentina's Financial Collapse]
 * [|Big Sugar]: //Big Sugar// explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Black Money]: In //Black Money//, Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates this shadowy side of international business, shedding light on multinational companies that have routinely made secret payments — often referred to as “black money” — to win billions in business. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Britain’s Bad Housing]: But in this edition of Dispatches, reporter Andrew Gilligan investigates the private house builders charged with solving Britain’s chronic housing shortage. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Crash: How Long Will It Last?]: In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider’s account of how Britain’s economy went from boom to bust.
 * [|Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room]: Alex Gibney’s documentary examines the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of this Houston, Texas-based firm, which for a time made its top officers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and all by engaging in business practices alleged to have been little more than a complex shell game. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Fiat Empire – Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution]
 * [|How the Banks Never Lose]: As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|How the Banks Won]: Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they’ve done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it’s largely business as usual. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|I.O.U.S.A. – One Nation. Under Debt. In Stress.]: Patrick Creadon’s //I.O.U.S.A.// documents the efforts of two concerned citizens, former US Comptroller General Dave Walker and Concord Coalition Director Robert Bixby, to explain how AmPatrick Creadon’s //I.O.U.S.A.// documents the efforts of two concerned citizens, former US Comptroller General Dave Walker and Concord Coalition Director Robert Bixby, to explain how America racked up over $9.5 trillion in debt and what we can do to stem the tide. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|In Debt We Trust]
 * [|Maxed Out]: James D. Scurlock’s virulently angry muckraking documentary //Maxed Out// examines the many problems associated with escalating U.S. consumer debt. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|MeltUp: The Beginning Of A US Currency Crisis]: Examines the potential dangers of inflation in the U.S.
 * [|Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street]: Quants are the math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who designed the financial products that almost crashed Wall st. The credit crunch has shown how the global financial system has become increasingly dependent on mathematical models trying to quantify human (economic) behavior. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Santa’s Workshop: Inside China’s Slave Labour Toy Factories]: SANTA’S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Secret History of the Credit Card]: This film examines how the credit card industry became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so powerful as correspondent Lowell Bergman uncovers the techniques used by the industry to earn record profits and get consumers to take on more debt. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Supermarket Secrets]: //Supermarket Secrets// investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Ascent of Money]: Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial system. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Day of the Dollar]: VPRO Backlight and Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad present this ‘what if’ scenario. What if the dollar collapses? Fiction meets facts in this 24 hour scenario. At 9AM a Singapore trader is ordered to sell a large amount of dollars, which sends off the enormous downfall of the dollar. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Diamond Empire]: FRONTLINE examines how the great myth about the scarcity of diamonds and their inflated value was created and maintained over the decades by the diamond cartel. This report chronicles how one family, the Oppenheimers of South Africa, gained control of the supply, marketing, and pricing of the world’s diamonds. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Fall of Lehman Brothers]
 * [|The Money Fix]: Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. //The Money Fix// is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Supermarket That’s Eating Britain]: In //The Supermarket That’s Eating Britain//, Ben Laurance pieces together evidence that reveals the true potential of Tesco’s expansion plans. In two thirds of Britain, Tesco is already the dominant supermarket. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|The Take]: In the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price]: Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a look inside the discount retailer’s empire in //Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price// (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Bigger Than Enron]: The meteoric rise and stunning collapse of Enron caused many to question why the corporate oversight system that was supposed to protect investors failed to sound any alarms about the company’s dubious finances. But Enron and Arthur Andersen turn out to be merely the tip of the iceberg. In the 1990s, more than 700 U.S. companies were forced to correct misleading financial statements as a result of accounting failures, lapses, or outright fraud. Together with Enron — the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history — these failures have cost investors an estimated $200 billion. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * **__From Khan Academy__**
 * __Videos on how banks work and how money is created__.
 * 1) [|Banking 1]
 * 2) [|Banking 2: A bank's income statement]
 * 3) [|Banking 3: Fractional Reserve Banking]
 * 4) [|Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply]
 * 5) [|Banking 5: Introduction to Bank Notes]
 * 6) [|Banking 6: Bank Notes and Checks]
 * 7) [|Banking 7: Giving out loans without giving out gold]
 * 8) [|Banking 8: Reserve Ratios]
 * 9) [|Banking 9: More on Reserve Ratios (Bad sound)]
 * 10) [|Banking 10: Introduction to leverage (bad sound)]
 * 11) [|Banking 11: A reserve bank]
 * 12) [|Banking 12: Treasuries (government debt)]
 * 13) [|Banking 13: Open Market Operations]
 * 14) [|Banking 14: Fed Funds Rate]
 * 15) [|Banking 15: More on the Fed Funds Rate]
 * 16) [|Banking 16: Why target rates vs. money supply]
 * 17) [|Banking 17: What happened to the gold?]
 * 18) [|Banking 18: Big Picture Discussion]
 * 19) [|The Discount Rate]
 * 20) [|Repurchase Agreements (Repo transactions)]
 * 21) [|Federal Reserve Balance Sheet]
 * 22) [|Fractional Reserve Banking Commentary 1]
 * 23) [|FRB Commentary 2: Deposit Insurance]
 * 24) [|FRB Commentary 3: Big Picture]
 * 25) [|LIBOR]


 * __Videos on the causes and effects of the credit crisis/crunch__.
 * 1) [|The housing price conundrum]
 * 2) [|Housing price conundrum (part 2)]
 * 3) [|Housing Price Conundrum (part 3)]
 * 4) [|Housing Conundrum (part 4)]
 * 5) [|Mortgage-Backed Securities I]
 * 6) [|Mortgage-backed securities II]
 * 7) [|Mortgage-backed securities III]
 * 8) [|Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)]
 * 9) [|Bailout 13: Does the bailout have a chance of working?]
 * 10) [|Credit Default Swaps]
 * 11) [|Credit Default Swaps 2]
 * 12) [|Wealth Destruction 1]
 * 13) [|Wealth Destruction 2]


 * __Videos about currency exchange__.
 * 1) [|Currency Exchange Introduction]
 * 2) [|Currency Effect on Trade]
 * 3) [|Currency Effect on Trade Review]
 * 4) [|Pegging the Yuan]
 * 5) [|Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries]
 * 6) [|American-Chinese Debt Loop]
 * 7) [|Debt Loops Rationale and Effects]
 * 8) [|China keeps peg but diversifies holdings]


 * __Discussions of economic topics and how they relate to current events__.
 * 1) [|Economics of a Cupcake Factory]
 * 2) [|Cupcake Economics 2]
 * 3) [|Cupcake Economics 3]
 * 4) [|Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization]
 * 5) [|Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization 2]
 * 6) [|Inflation & Deflation 3: Obama Stimulus Plan]
 * 7) [|Unemployment]
 * 8) [|CPI Index]
 * 9) [|Simple Analysis of Cost per Job Saved from Stimulus]
 * 10) [|Unemployment Rate Primer]
 * 11) [|Floating Exchange Resolving Trade Imbalance]
 * 12) [|China Pegs to Dollar to Keep Trade Imbalance]
 * 13) [|China buys US Bonds]
 * 14) [|Review of China US currency situation]
 * 15) [|Data on Chinese M1 Increase in 2010]
 * 16) [|Data on Chinese Foreign Assets Increase in 2010]
 * 17) [|Data on Chinese US Balance of Payments]
 * 18) [|Chinese inflation]
 * 19) [|Floating Exchange Effect on China]
 * 20) [|Floating Exchange Effect on US]


 * __Videos on finance and macroeconomics__.
 * 1) [|Introduction to interest]
 * 2) [|Interest (part 2)]
 * 3) [|Introduction to Present Value]
 * 4) [|Present Value 2]
 * 5) [|Present Value 3]
 * 6) [|Present Value 4 (and discounted cash flow)]
 * 7) [|Introduction to Balance Sheets]
 * 8) [|More on balance sheets and equity]
 * 9) [|Home equity loans]
 * 10) [|Renting vs. Buying a home]
 * 11) [|Renting vs. buying a home (part 2)]
 * 12) [|Renting vs. Buying (detailed analysis)]
 * 13) [|The housing price conundrum]
 * 14) [|Housing price conundrum (part 2)]
 * 15) [|Housing Price Conundrum (part 3)]
 * 16) [|Housing Conundrum (part 4)]
 * 17) [|Raising money for a startup]
 * 18) [|Getting a seed round from a VC]
 * 19) [|Going back to the till: Series B]
 * 20) [|An IPO]
 * 21) [|More on IPOs]
 * 22) [|What it means to buy a company's stock]
 * 23) [|Bonds vs. Stocks]
 * 24) [|Shorting Stock]
 * 25) [|Shorting Stock 2]
 * 26) [|Is short selling bad?]
 * 27) [|Chapter 7:Bankruptcy Liquidation]
 * 28) [|Chapter 11: Bankruptcy Restructuring]
 * 29) [|Return on capital]
 * 30) [|Mortgage-Backed Securities I]
 * 31) [|Mortgage-backed securities II]
 * 32) [|Mortgage-backed securities III]
 * 33) [|Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)]
 * 34) [|Introduction to the yield curve]
 * 35) [|Introduction to compound interest and e]
 * 36) [|Compound Interest and e (part 2)]
 * 37) [|Compound Interest and e (part 3)]
 * 38) [|Compound Interest and e (part 4)]
 * 39) [|Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. Solvency]
 * 40) [|Bailout 2: Book Value]
 * 41) [|Bailout 3: Book value vs. market value]
 * 42) [|Bailout 4: Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market]
 * 43) [|Bailout 5: Paying off the debt]
 * 44) [|Bailout 6: Getting an equity infusion]
 * 45) [|Bailout 7: Bank goes into bankruptcy]
 * 46) [|Bailout 8: Systemic Risk]
 * 47) [|Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan]
 * 48) [|Bailout 10: Moral Hazard]
 * 49) [|Credit Default Swaps]
 * 50) [|Credit Default Swaps 2]
 * 51) [|Investment vs. Consumption 1]
 * 52) [|Investment vs. Comsumption 2]
 * 53) [|Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing]
 * 54) [|Bailout 12: Lone Star Transaction]
 * 55) [|Bailout 13: Does the bailout have a chance of working?]
 * 56) [|Wealth Destruction 1]
 * 57) [|Wealth Destruction 2]
 * 58) [|Bailout 14: Possible Solution]
 * 59) [|Bailout 15: More on the solution]
 * 60) [|Banking 1]
 * 61) [|Banking 2: A bank's income statement]
 * 62) [|Banking 3: Fractional Reserve Banking]
 * 63) [|Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply]
 * 64) [|Personal Bankruptcy: Chapters 7 and 13]
 * 65) [|Introduction to Compound Interest]
 * 66) [|The Rule of 72 for Compound Interest]
 * 67) [|Annual Percentage Rate (APR) and Effective APR]
 * 68) [|Introduction to Bonds]
 * 69) [|Relationship between bond prices and interest rates]
 * 70) [|Introduction to Mortgage Loans]
 * 71) [|Traditional IRAs]
 * 72) [|Roth IRAs]
 * 73) [|401(k)s]
 * 74) [|Payday Loans]
 * 75) [|Institutional Roles in Issuing and Processing Credit Cards]
 * 76) [|Ponzi Schemes]
 * 77) [|Currency Exchange Introduction]
 * 78) [|Currency Effect on Trade]
 * 79) [|Currency Effect on Trade Review]
 * 80) [|Pegging the Yuan]
 * 81) [|Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries]
 * 82) [|American-Chinese Debt Loop]
 * 83) [|Debt Loops Rationale and Effects]
 * 84) [|American Call Options]
 * 85) [|Basic Shorting]
 * 86) [|American Put Options]
 * 87) [|Call Option as Leverage]
 * 88) [|Put vs. Short and Leverage]
 * 89) [|Call Payoff Diagram]
 * 90) [|Put Payoff Diagram]
 * 91) [|Long Straddle]
 * 92) [|Put as Insurance]
 * 93) [|Put-Call Parity]
 * 94) [|Put Writer Payoff Diagrams]
 * 95) [|Call Writer Payoff Diagram]
 * 96) [|Arbitrage Basics]
 * 97) [|Put-Call Parity Arbitrage I]
 * 98) [|Put-Call Parity Arbitrage II]
 * 99) [|Put-Call Parity Clarification]
 * 100) [|Actual Option Quotes]
 * 101) [|Option Expiration and Price]
 * 102) [|Forward Contract Introduction]
 * 103) [|Futures Introduction]
 * 104) [|Motivation for the Futures Exchange]
 * 105) [|Futures Margin Mechanics]
 * 106) [|Verifying Hedge with Futures Margin Mechanics]
 * 107) [|Futures and Forward Curves]
 * 108) [|Futures Curves II]
 * 109) [|Contango]
 * 110) [|Backwardation]
 * 111) [|Contango and Backwardation Review]
 * 112) [|Upper Bound on Forward Settlement Price]
 * 113) [|Lower Bound on Forward Settlement Price]
 * 114) [|Arbitraging Futures Contract]
 * 115) [|Arbitraging Futures Contracts II]
 * 116) [|Cash Accounting]
 * 117) [|Accrual Basis of Accounting]
 * 118) [|Comparing Accrual and Cash Accounting]
 * 119) [|Balance Sheet and Income Statement Relationship]
 * 120) [|Basic Cash Flow Statement]
 * 121) [|Doing the example with Accounts Payable growing]
 * 122) [|Expensing a Truck leads to inconsistent performance]
 * 123) [|Depreciating the truck]
 * 124) [|Depreciation in Cash Flow]
 * 125) [|Amortization and Depreciation]
 * 126) [|Basic Capital Structure Differences]
 * 127) [|Market Capitalization]
 * 128) [|Market Value of Assets]
 * 129) [|LIBOR]
 * 130) [|Fair Value Accounting]
 * 131) [|Basics of US Income Tax Rate Schedule]
 * 132) [|Tax Deductions Introduction]
 * 133) [|Alternative Minimum Tax]
 * 134) [|Term Life Insurance and Death Probability]
 * 135) [|Back of Envelope Office Space Conundrum]
 * 136) [|Corporations and Limited Liability]
 * 137) [|Is Limited Liability or Double Taxation Fair]
 * 138) [|Open-Ended Mutual Fund (Part 1)]
 * 139) [|Open-End Mutual Fund Redemptions]
 * 140) [|Closed-End Mutual Funds]
 * 141) [|Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)]
 * 142) [|Hedge Funds Intro]
 * 143) [|Hedge Fund Structure and Fees]
 * 144) [|Are Hedge Funds Bad?]
 * 145) [|Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Private Equity]


 * __Videos on the Geithner Plan to solve the banking crisis__.
 * 1) [|Geithner Plan I]
 * 2) [|Geithner Plan II]
 * 3) [|Geithner Plan 2.5]
 * 4) [|Geithner Plan III]
 * 5) [|Geithner Plan IV]
 * 6) [|Geithner 5: A better solution]


 * __Videos to help understand the bailout__.
 * 1) [|Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. Solvency]
 * 2) [|Bailout 2: Book Value]
 * 3) [|Bailout 3: Book value vs. market value]
 * 4) [|Bailout 4: Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market]
 * 5) [|Bailout 5: Paying off the debt]
 * 6) [|Bailout 6: Getting an equity infusion]
 * 7) [|Bailout 7: Bank goes into bankruptcy]
 * 8) [|Bailout 8: Systemic Risk]
 * 9) [|Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan]
 * 10) [|Bailout 10: Moral Hazard]
 * 11) [|Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing]
 * 12) [|Bailout 12: Lone Star Transaction]
 * 13) [|Bailout 14: Possible Solution]
 * 14) [|Bailout 15: More on the solution]

**__Business__**
> > Evan Davis meets him to find out about his unique investment strategy and his eccentric lifestyle. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * **__From Khan Academy__**
 * __Valuation and Investing__: Building blocks and case studies on the financial analysis and valuation of public equities.
 * 1) [|Price and Market Capitalization]
 * 2) [|Introduction to the Income Statement]
 * 3) [|Earnings and EPS]
 * 4) [|Introduction to the Price-to-Earnings Ratio]
 * 5) [|P/E Discussion]
 * 6) [|ROA Discussion 1]
 * 7) [|ROA Discussion 2]
 * 8) [|Depreciation]
 * 9) [|Amortization]
 * 10) [|P/E Conundrum]
 * 11) [|Enterprise Value]
 * 12) [|EBITDA]
 * __Venture Capital and Capital Markets__: All of the sources of funding (capital) for a business.
 * 1) [|Raising money for a startup]
 * 2) [|Getting a seed round from a VC]
 * 3) [|Going back to the till: Series B]
 * 4) [|An IPO]
 * 5) [|More on IPOs]
 * 6) [|Equity vs. Debt]
 * 7) [|Bonds vs. Stocks]
 * 8) [|Chapter 7:Bankruptcy Liquidation]
 * 9) [|Chapter 11: Bankruptcy Restructuring]
 * //[|The Spill]:// PBS Frontline documentary on the BP oil spill.
 * [|Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story]: Horizon reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves – a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster.
 * [|//The Persuaders//]and [|//Merchants of Cool//]: Are PBS Frontline documentaries on advertising and marketing.
 * [|The World's Greatest Money Maker - Warren Buffet]: Warren Buffett is the greatest investor of all time. His decisions about buying shares and companies have beaten the stock market year after year and made him the richest person in the world – thought to be worth 37 billion dollars. Yet Buffett lives modestly in his native Omaha, in America’s mid-West, and runs his 150 billion dollar business with a staff of just twenty.

**__Psychology__**

 * [|Beautiful Minds - The Psychology of the Savant]: In the field of brain research there is no subject more intriguing than the savant – an individual with mental, behavioral, or even physical disability who possesses acute powers of observation, mathematical aptitude, or artistic talent. This three-part series provides an enthralling look into the psychology and neuroscience of the savant’s mysterious world. 3-part series, 53 minutes each. (From Top Documentary Films)
 * [|Mirror Neurons]: "Why do sports fans feel so emotionally invested in the game, reacting almost as if they were part of the game themselves? According to provocative discoveries in brain imaging, inside our heads we constantly "act out" and imitate whatever activity we're observing. As this video reveals, our so-called "mirror neurons" help us understand the actions of others and prime us to imitate what we see." (From PBS web site)

**__Art History__**

 * [|This is Modern Art]: Focuses on the current state of modern art, and looks back at Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol to see how they changed the definition of art. Reveals the ways modern art attempts to shock the audience. (From Top Documentary Films)

**__Politics__**

 * [|For Liberty]: As the 2007-08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political establishment.(From Top Documentary Films)