Homeschooling with Netflix | History Documentaries

We love Netflix, and use it to supplement our kids’ learning often. It’s been used to help teach character, early learning skills, and for fun. Some of my favorite things to stream, though, are science and history documentaries.

 

 

History documentaries give us a chance to dive deeper into historical events from various perspectives. To keep track of what the kids learn while watching documentaries on Netflix, I go through the member section of NotebookingPages.com and print the great open-ended pages that they offer.

Are you looking to add some history documentaries to your homeschool? Here are 100 titles worth checking out (note: I’ve collected as many history documentaries as I could find in order to curate a comprehensive list, but you need to use your own judgment as to which are appropriate for your own family):

 

1. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States
2. Stealing History
3. Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II
4. Ken Burns: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
5. History in HD: The Last Bomb
6. History in HD: Shooting Iwo Jima
7. Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny
8. Great Raids of World War II
9. Apocalypse: The Second World War
10. Secrets of the Third Reich
11. Road to Victory
12. Return to the USS Atlanta: Defender of Guadalcanal
13. Nuremburg: Nazis on Trial
14. Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
15. D-Day
16. The Wheelchair President
17. Battle of Britain: The Real Story
18. The Longest Day
19. WWII: 1941 and the Man of Steel
20. Goering’s Last Secret
21. America’s Secret D-Day Disaster
22. Battlefield Recovery
23. Day of the Kamikaze
24. Egypt
25. Mystery Files: Hitler
26. Titanic’s Final Mystery
27. The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
28. Hunt for Bin Laden
29. The Day Kennedy Died
30. Above and Beyond
31. Helicopter Missions: Vietnam Firefight
32. U-571
33. The Desert Fox
34. Frontline Fighting: Battling ISIS
35. The First World War From Above
36. Downfall
37. Our World War
38. Alexander: The Ultimate Cut
39. The Last Man on the Moon
40. Nazi Temple of Doom
41. The People vs. OJ Simpson
42. Hitler: A Career
43. Roman Empire: Reign of Blood
44. The Royals
45. The Cuba Libre Story
46. Whitey: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger
47. Tokyo Trial
48. Requiem for the American Dream
49. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
50. The White Helmets
51. City 40
52. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
53. First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon
54. The NSU-Complex
55. Cosmodrome
56. Witches: A Century of Murder
57. The Eighties
58. Inside Job
59. The Sixties
60. Conspiracy
61. The Seventies
62. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
63. Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
64. Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution
65. The Real Story: The Facts Behind the Fiction
66. Civil War 360
67. The Pyramid Code
68. Tales of Irish Castles
69. Mystery Files
70. Secrets of Great British Castles
71. China’s Forbidden City
72. World’s Worst Disasters
73. Raiders of the Lost Art
74. Unsealed Conspiracy Files
75. Warrior Women
76. TURN: Washington’s Spies
77. Secrets: The Sphinx
78. Air Disasters
79. Space Race
80. The Story of Maths
81. Secrets: A Viking Map
82. Secrets: Richard III Revealed
83. Ninja Shadow Warriors
84. Samurai Headhunters
85. Empire of the Tsars
86. The Man Who Killed Richard III
87. Mystery Files: Leonardo Da Vinci
88. Shuttle Discovery’s Last Mission
89. Hindenburg: The Untold Story
90. Afghanistan: The Great Game
91. The Ascent of Woman
92. World War II Spy School
93. Last Days in Vietnam
94. Unsung Heroes: The Story of America’s Female Patriots
95. Churchill’s First World War
96. For Love of Liberty
97. Lessons of Darkness
98. Close Quarter Battle
99. Of Men and War
100. The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of the Empire

 

Did I miss any that you know and love? Tell me about your homeschooling with Netflix. Do you stream shows in your homeschool? What is your favorite ways to use streaming video to enhance learning?

 

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