HIS102: Western Civilization

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Cause Celebre:

Jean Calas
Jean Calas and protestant*
Calas and Voltaire
Enlightenment and France

"Regina v dudley and stephens"
"R v dudley"

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935​
Captain Alfred Dreyfus
Captain Alfred Dreyfus and France
Captain Alfred Dreyfus and Trial*
Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy and Alfred Dreyfus

William Bayliss
William Bayliss and vivisection
Bayliss v Coleridge
Battersea and "brown dog"

Adolf Eichmann
Hannah Arendt
Adolf Eichmann and "Final Solution 

Richard John Bingham
Richard John Bingham and murder
"Lord Lucan"
"Lady Lucan"

History of an Empire:

Roberto Cofresi
"El Pirata Cofreso"
"Latin American Wars of Independence"

Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano and abolition*
Olaudah Equiano and religion

Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte and Egypt
French occupation of Egypt

Robert Baden Powell
Robert Baden Powell and scout*
"Scouting for boys"
Boy scout* and "British Empire"

Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi and Salt
"Salt March"

Apartheid
Apartheid and Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela and
   ​prison or incarceration or jail

The video database Films on Demand offers these documentaries: