Maintained by the Historica Foundation of Canada, History by the Minute is a superb site that provides educational movies about Canadian history and culture. It is designed with Canadians in mind but can be useful to any students of the English language.
Features:
• Historica Minutes: one-minute movies telling highlights of Canada's history
• Historica Footprints: one-minute documentary films about Canada's athletes and sporting traditions
• Historica Radio Minutes: 90-second dramas about 100 of Canada's significant moments and personalities
• Historica Screen Legends: one-minute television vignettes about the lives of famous Canadian actors and actresses
• Lesson plans for use with the movies
Site URL: http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do?page=.index
