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video 🇫🇷 ParisThe Rise and Fall of Versailles
by BBC documentary series
Three-part drama-documentary on the kings, queens, and intrigues that built Versailles — and the revolution that brought it down.
video 🇵🇱 KrakówAuschwitz-Birkenau — Video history
Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz
from Auschwitz and the Holocaust in Poland
video 🇫🇷 ParisBuilding the Eiffel Tower
by NOVA / PBS
PBS documentary on how Gustave Eiffel's team designed and assembled the tower in just over two years — and how it almost wasn't built at all.
video 🇵🇱 KrakówCatherine the Great, Tsarina of Russia, Part 1
History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday · 23:00
from How Poland disappeared from the map
ebook 🇵🇱 KrakówDK Eyewitness Kraków
by DK Eyewitness
DK's full Kraków guide — Old Town, Wawel, Kazimierz, and the day trips out to Wieliczka and Auschwitz.
ebook 🇨🇿 PragueDK Eyewitness Prague
by DK Eyewitness
DK's full Prague guide — old town walks, castle district, Jewish quarter, and where to eat in between.
ebook 🇨🇭 LucerneDK Eyewitness Switzerland
by DK Eyewitness
DK's full Switzerland guide — scenic railways, hut-to-hut hiking, and city walks from Bern to Zürich.
ebook 🇫🇷 ParisDK Top 10 Paris
by DK Eyewitness
DK's pocket guide to Paris — every chapter is a ranked top-10 list, so you can scan for what matters and skip the rest.
video 🇨🇿 PragueMaria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress
History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday · 17:23
from The Hussites and the Thirty Years' War
audiobook 🇫🇷 ParisMarie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser's lavish portrait of France's most misunderstood queen.
ebook 🇫🇷 ParisMarie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser
film 🇫🇷 ParisMarie Antoinette
by Directed by Sofia Coppola (2006)
Sofia Coppola's 2006 film with Kirsten Dunst, adapted from Antonia Fraser's biography and shot on location at Versailles.
film 🇫🇷 ParisNapoleon
by Directed by Ridley Scott (2023)
Ridley Scott's 2023 epic, with Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine, from the coronation to Waterloo.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Champs-Élysées Walk
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A guided stroll down Paris's grand avenue, from the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Historic Walk
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
Rick Steves' free audio walk through the oldest heart of Paris: Notre-Dame, a loop of the Île de la Cité, the Latin Quarter, and Sainte-Chapelle.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Louvre Museum Tour
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A highlights tour of the Louvre's greatest hits, from ancient Greece to the Mona Lisa.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Orsay Museum Tour
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A guided walk through the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Père Lachaise Cemetery
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A guided wander through Paris's famous garden cemetery and the graves of Chopin, Wilde, Morrison and more.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Rue Cler Walk
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A gentle, foodie stroll down a classic Parisian market street near the Eiffel Tower.
- walking tour 🇫🇷 Paris
Paris: Versailles Palace Tour
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
A guided tour of the State Apartments and Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
- walking tour 🇨🇿 Prague
Prague: City Walk
by Rick Steves Audio Europe
Rick Steves' free audio walk across the historic heart of Prague, from Wenceslas Square through the Old Town to the Charles Bridge.
video 🇫🇷 ParisQueen Marie Antoinette
by History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday
Two-part biography of Marie Antoinette — her Habsburg childhood, her marriage into the Bourbon court, and her path to the guillotine.
film 🇵🇱 KrakówSchindler's List
by Directed by Steven Spielberg (1993)
Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust film, the true story of Oskar Schindler and the 1,100 Kraków Jews he saved. Filmed on location in the city; winner of seven Academy Awards.
video 🇫🇷 ParisThe Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris (before the fire)
Smarthistory · 5:54
from Notre-Dame in eight centuries
video 🇵🇱 KrakówThe Fall of Communism: Crash Course European History #47
CrashCourse · 16:45
from Solidarity and 1989
video 🇫🇷 ParisThe French Revolution — OverSimplified
by OverSimplified
The whole French Revolution in two breezy, stick-figure-animated YouTube videos. Best 50 minutes you'll spend on it.
video 🇫🇷 ParisThe French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
CrashCourse · 11:52
from The French Revolution
video 🇫🇷 ParisThe Napoleonic Wars — OverSimplified
by OverSimplified
Napoleon's military career in two stick-figure-animated YouTube videos. From the coup of 18 Brumaire to Waterloo and St Helena.
video 🇨🇿 PragueThe Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History #6
CrashCourse · 17:18
from The Hussites and the Thirty Years' War