Watch tools: working wood in the 18th century MoviestoWatch. While exhibiting their crafts, the cabinetmaker, cooper, carpenter, and basket maker of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades discuss the importance of tools, then and now. Many of the tools shown were created by the blacksmith.
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The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...
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A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.
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VHS tape gives you a video tour of the historic Williamsburg Colonial area as well as Yorktown and Jamestown. Plan your vacation stops in advance!
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Once producing half of the nation's sugar, the Domino Sugar Refinery was an icon of the industrial work available in South Williamsburg. Within the...
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A documentary on the inhabitants of South Williamsburg, New York, whose lives are explored through the testimony of five inhabitants of the Brooklyn...
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This is a story of remarkable generosity and considerable personal participation, chronicled here through archival photos and film, a narrative drawn...
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Antique furniture produced in eighteenth-century Williamsburg serves as patterns for work produced today in Colonial Williamsburg's restored Hay's...
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Explains the role of the blacksmith in colonial America, and includes a demonstration of the tools and skills used to turn metal into farm...
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This is Ivor Noel Hume's four-year archaeological discovery of Martin's Hundred Plantation, a seventeenth-century plantation that supplied many of...
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Experience the pride and precision that went into every eighteenth-century instrument made in colonial America. Each part is handmade and carefully...
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In the eighteenth century, tradesmen passed along their skills and knowledge, the art and mystery of their trades to their apprentices. With...
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Describes the fashions of Eighteenth-Century America.