BBC History File: Black Peoples of the Americas. All 5 shows

Updated 12/07/24: better audio on film, differentiated questions, more user-friendly answer sheet.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Informative and compelling BBC dramatised documentaries covering: The Atlantic Slave Trade, the everyday life of a slave, resistance, liberation, abolition; after emancipation; and civil rights in the USA. Each film is approx. 20 mins long with approx. 18 questions per sheet.

Find the videos by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for Black Peoples of the Americas.

Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Creates a great revision / summary resource. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Answer sheets. Very easy to mark. doc & .pdf for all files. Link to video on all sheets.