The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

“The Song of Seikilos” is about 2000 years old…and it’s the oldest complete, unambiguous song in existence today. It has a haunting beauty, which apparently was accompanied by these words:
“As long as you live,shine.
Let nothing grieve you beyond measure.
For life is short,and time will claim it’s tribute”
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You’ve probably never seen this footage before. This was personal camcorder footage from someone who lived near the World Trade Center, and was only recently released to the public. There are very few edits…it’s mostly just a half hour of really high-quality footage of the events of that day, along with the unguarded comments of [...]

Bucknell University professor Eric Baden uses a mashup of Disney clips to explain copyright law and fair use.
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A compilation of news and amateur footage of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. The music is “Hearts Stronger Than Steel”, by Chuck Brown. A free MP3 download of the song is available at HealingPiano.com.
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LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Along with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, it was the largest aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it was destroyed by a fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, on May 6, 1937. Thirty-six people died in [...]

This is newly-released video from a private photographer. He had set up his camcorder on a tripod to catch the chaos surrounding the scene after the first plane hit. He has no idea that he would be in perfect position to catch the jet flying into the second tower (at about :24). It still shocks [...]