Student Video

Below is a collection of all of our online video clips featuring student speeches, classroom footage and student work, with the most recent clips appearing first. Watch this space for more as we continue to grow our extensive library online.

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See video Student Kamara J. Speaks at the 1996 New York Benefit Dinner

Kamara J. interprets Samuel Bak's painting The Family, on the cover of the guide Facing History and Ourselves prepared for the movie Schindler's list. Speaking at Facing History's 1996 New York benefit dinner, she seeks to understand how a person becomes a bystander who chooses not to see or not to act in the face of injustice.

2 weeks 3 days ago
See video SOAL

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, entitled Our Community, students talk about the close bonds that were created as they learned each others culture and history.

9 weeks 4 days ago
See video PTL

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, Umuryango Wacu (Our Community), some of the students reflect on the history of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide, and what can be done to create a peaceful world.

9 weeks 4 days ago
See video Les Quatre Mousquetaires

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, some of the students explore what comprises a community, what it mean to be a member of a community, and why civic participation matters. They ask “What will you do?”

9 weeks 5 days ago
See video Ingabo

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film some of the students share what they learned about the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide, and the importance of education as a preventative tool against crimes of mass violence such as genocide.

9 weeks 5 days ago
See video Indatwa
9 weeks 5 days ago
See video Imena
9 weeks 5 days ago
See video Icyizere (Hope)

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In this film, some of the students use a Rwandan parable as a metaphor to tell the story of the kind of community they themselves became after participating in the exchange program.

9 weeks 5 days ago
See video HIP (Humans in Peace)

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participating in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs created this digital movie to share what they learned about what can undermine a community and strengthen a community.

10 weeks 1 day ago
See video Connect Four

Students from Massachusetts and Rwanda participated in a Facing History and Ourselves student leadership program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. They created this digital movie based on a poem written after studying the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide. The film speaks about the pain, legacy and the difficult process of healing after a community has experienced the violence and hatred of genocide.

10 weeks 1 day ago