Doorway to the Past

This is Ivor Noel Hume's four-year archaeological discovery of Martin's Hundred Plantation, a seventeenth-century plantation that supplied many of...

This is a story of remarkable generosity and considerable personal participation, chronicled here through archival photos and film, a narrative drawn...

Antique furniture produced in eighteenth-century Williamsburg serves as patterns for work produced today in Colonial Williamsburg's restored Hay's...

Explains the role of the blacksmith in colonial America, and includes a demonstration of the tools and skills used to turn metal into farm...

A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...

VHS tape gives you a video tour of the historic Williamsburg Colonial area as well as Yorktown and Jamestown. Plan your vacation stops in advance!

Once producing half of the nation's sugar, the Domino Sugar Refinery was an icon of the industrial work available in South Williamsburg. Within the...

A documentary on the inhabitants of South Williamsburg, New York, whose lives are explored through the testimony of five inhabitants of the Brooklyn...

The cooper works through the demanding process of creating a barrel. Using no measuring tool other than his own eyesight, the master cooper precisely...

While exhibiting their crafts, the cabinetmaker, cooper, carpenter, and basket maker of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades discuss the...

This is a dramatization of the color and style of clothing distinctive to eighteenth-century America. It was an age of knee breeches, full gowns,...