https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/videos/RSS feed for the videosenFri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-wwiibattlesincolor-elalamein-clip02-saving/The biggest American tanker in the world, accompanied by Allied battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers. Their mission was to break the German naval blockade and deliver much needed supplies to Malta.Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-wwiibydrone-106-naziwarmachine-clip1/This imposing concrete structure in the German city of Bremen is 1400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 90 feet high, and looks every inch the secret Nazi facility that it is. Its purpose was to build and test U-Boats.Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-mightycruiseships-408-clip02-troubleshooti/On a routine approach to Belize City, cruise ship Sky Princess runs into an alarming problem. The tanks and water pumps designed to keep the ship level on the turn are malfunctioning, causing a dangerous tilt.Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/one-of-americas-greatest-national-monuments/Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial, one of America's greatest monuments. Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/wwii-battles-in-color-barbarossa-1007214-1-350_1/Stalin’s destruction of the USSR’s own Dnieper Hydroelectric Station ahead of the impending Nazi invasion, was a statement of resolve: the USSR would rather destroy its prized possessions, and Ukrainian citizens, rather than yield to the Germans. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/this-machine-creates-a-mesmerizing-waterfall-o/The extruder is the factory machine that forces pasta dough through individual holes to create endless strips of pasta. The result is something akin to a free-flowing pasta waterfall! In 1 minute, it transforms 200 pounds of pasta dough into 52 miles of spaghetti!Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-wwiibattlesincolor-berlin-clip01-showingmi/On February 4, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Livadia Palace, in the Crimean resort of Yalta, with a single item on the agenda: to plan for the final defeat of Nazi Germany and the reorganization of Europe.Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-mightycruiseships-408-clip01-checkingthepo/The staff engineer aboard the Sky Princess, and his team of mechanics, are checking and repairing the ship’s 4 engines. Maintenance checks like this can only be performed when the ship is at port–and the clock is ticking.Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/we-cant-stop-watching-this-egg-separator-in-a/Watching this egg separator keep the whites and the yolks apart is an astounding experience: the speed, the volume and most impressively the aerial precision, is mesmerizing. A single machine can get through 2 million eggs a day!Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-1000yearsofslavery-104-reckoning-clip02-en/Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III identifies 1877 as the year when all the gains of the Civil War, for Black people, began to be erased. As Jim Crow took hold, African-Americans found their constitutional freedoms curtailed.Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/wwii-battles-in-color-barbarossa-1007214-1-350/Hitler’s plan for the Soviet Union was as simple as it was brutal: invade the country on 3 fronts, and institute a policy of mass starvation towards the Russians, which came to be dubbed as the Hunger Plan.Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/1006771-1-3497778-eps02-pepperoni/It looks hilarious: a machine that holds up pepperoni sausages as they get sliced onto thousands of conveyer belt-propelled pizzas. But without it, your next pizza might be found wanting. Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/do-incubating-sea-turtles-call-out-to-each-oth/Lindsay McKenna is among the first scientists to discover that developing sea turtles make sounds inside their eggs! She's not 100% sure why it happens, but one theory is that it’s a signal for all the other turtles to synchronize their hatchinWed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/frederick-douglass-disagreed-with-the-quakers/The Quakers were the first religious group to ally themselves to the abolitionist cause, and played a role in securing the freedom of Frederick Douglass. Some among them believed that buying an enslaved man’s freedom, even to set him free, was a tacit acceptance of slavery. Douglass himself took exception to this view.Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/lemurs-find-a-tree-that-produces-fruit-for-onl/Crystal, the enterprising queen of the Ruins gang, has spotted a rare opportunity: a Cordia tree, with its chewy, sugar-packed berries in full bloom. If they’re not interrupted by rivals, her troop will feed well today.Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/drones-now-play-an-active-role-in-sea-turtle-c/Off the coast of Ostional, Costa Rica–a mass synchronized nesting event known as an "arribada" provides an opportunity for scientists to conduct a sea turtle census. For a more accurate count, they turn to camera drones.Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/how-the-us-used-small-patrol-boats-to-foil-ira/On September 21, 1987, a patrol of Patrol Boats Mark III and "Little Bird" helicopters spot an Iranian ship dropping mines into the sea. They immediately spring into action.Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/a-single-male-lemur-stands-up-to-a-entire-troo/An incursion by a lemur troop called the Raiders sees Victor, a powerful male from the Museum Gang, stand up to them on his own. He’s stalling for time until the rest of his gang arrive.Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/the-dam-buster-bombers-set-their-sights-on-hit/On September 15, 1944, a 23 year-old Lancaster bomber pilot named Lawrence Goodman set off with his squadron on an ambitious mission: to drop a 12,000 pound bomb known as the “Tallboy” on German battleship Tirpitz.Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/only-the-higher-ups-in-lemur-society-enjoy-a-t/A plague of ticks crawl out of the ground by the thousands to infect the faces and ears of the lemurs. And while some spend the day covered in ticks, the queen isn’t one of them–her groomers see to that.Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/this-200-year-old-tree-is-a-nesting-location-f/A 200-year-old beech tree is the ideal spot for a black woodpecker to bore out a nest. At 130 feet high, it’s the perfect place to keep her young protected from opportunistic hunters.Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/a20018-1-greekislandodyssey-withbettanyhughes/It took 10 years for Odysseus to sail across the stormy Mediterranean, from Ithaca to Troy. Historian Bettany Hughes recreates part of that journey–but with the benefit of some modern maritime technology.Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/gangs-of-lemur-island-104-theroadtoindependenc/A group of young lemurs engage in a lively play session where, unbeknownst to them, the lines of their own position within the troop are being drawn. For one privileged male youngster, it will prove a rude awakening. Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/smn-carpathianpredators-101-clip01-eurasianlyn/Nobody knows the purpose behind the distinctive ear tufts of the Eurasian lynx. But it’s the standout feature of one of the world’s most mysterious and solitary species. Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/this-19th-century-dresden-museum-received-a-ca/In 2001, Daniel Libeskind was hired to design a tasteful extension to the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History in Dresden. His vision was an ingenious feat of architecture that managed to be both modern and respectful of the city’s tragic past.Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000