The problem we have is because Most people always taught that " you only need a good job to become rich " . These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.

Who here lovesssss history too??! 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

My Aunt Claris was a "flapper" in the 1920s and lived into the 1980s. She once told me that out of all the technological advances that she had seen in her lifetime, the one she could never get used to was airplane travel. To look into the sky and see an airliner fly by was just amazing. ❤

I remember my grandfather, who was born in 1920 telling me about having to trim the wicks and filling the oil lamps in their home as a kid. He died in 2016. He saw a hell of a change in this world and not all of it for the best.

No one of them even once considered that more than 100 years later in the future, someone at 3 am watching them walk down the street

My mom was born in 1908 and my dad was born in 1901--both in Iowa. So, they were raised on farms not too far from each other. They literally lived from the era of the horse and buggy to the jet age and moon shot. There was more technological change during their lifetimes than the current generations have ever seen. We tend to think of ourselves as whiz-bang technological leaders. But my parents went from the outhouse to indoor plumbing and from feeding chickens to shopping in a big supermarket.

I slept watching this, I don’t know why but these old records makes me so relaxed

My great grandparents were sharecroppers during this time they persevered during the harsh Jim Crowe era and managed to buy not one but two homes on 3 acres My family still owns the land and homes today!!

Has anyone else noticed, every generation has embrased a new style of music that drove the older generation crazy? This runs true even today.

My Dad passed away in 1975. He had what looked like a solid copper wedding band from his father that had a date of 1878 inscribed inside the band. Turns out It was my Great Grandfathers. One day I went to polish it and it polished GOLD! Its a thick solid gold wedding band that I still have today.

My mom said that getting electricity was the greatest thing cause it made life sooo much easier!

"In 1900, there were only 8,000 automobiles in the United States and less than ten miles of paved roads." My grandparents used to talk about travelling then. They had some amusing stories.

one thing we learn from history: is we don't learn from history.

My dad was born in those days, ie. 1896 for him, I was born 81 yrs ago in 1940, my dad was 44yrs old then. My sister is 91yrs old this yr.

That these images exist amazes me. It is so interesting to see people’s manners and movement, dress and transportation, so great.

I have a set 1898 very detailed encyclopedias. They are fascinating and surprising. There were people who were very concerned about the wiping out of the buffalo which was near extinction at the time. And believe it or not they were also concerned about civil rights and the abuses of the american indian. One thing that I find very suprising is that they had figured out exactly what was needed to make motion pictures. How many frames per second and that each frame had to stop for a fraction of a second. They just hadn't been able to make a projector that could do it yet.

Man, I can't understand why people don't like or appreciate history. It's so freaking interesting. We literally have pretty much the history of the entire world at or fingertips in seconds if we needed it. Plus you're gonna be killer at trivia games 💀 Edit: Never thought I'd get 200+ replies to a comment about history being fascinating 😂

My great grandfather was 4 years old when he came to this country with his father through Ellis island from Italy in 1896. They came on a ship called the Alsatia. They immigrated to New Jersey where there is good farm land and created a very nice life here from nothing. I am forever grateful for the hard work they put in for us.

A sweeping overview of the 1st decade of the 20th century. Love all the archival film footage.

My Dad took, with a “Box Brownie” camera, black and white photos of Hiroshima two weeks after they dropped the bomb. I remember looking at those pictures over and over as a child, fascinated by them. Now I wonder how the film was not affected by the radiation to get these pic’s. Yet my dad’s teeth all dropped out one by one and he was the baldest man I ever knew. Years later we realised it was the radiation exposure. But those photos survived and have now been gifted to the Returned Soldiers League (RSL.)

The great thing about history is, you learn the problems we face today, have been around for a long time.

Mom was born in 1910, oh how I loved hearing stories about those times.

My Great-Grandmother was born in 1903 and died in 1999 when I was still in middle school. The degree of change she saw in her lifetime is unprecedented in all of human history. The 20th Century eclipsed even the 19th in terms of technological progress and world-shattering events and upheavals! I wish I could have had a good long talk with her but I was only a lad when she died.

What a simplistic beauty, unfortunately it wouldn't last as we see today.

*Ah, remember when The Discovery Channel and The History Channel actually showed history?*

"those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it"

My great grandfather came to America from Greece in the early 1900’s. Came to Wisconsin where he eventually settled and it’s fascinating to see what he would’ve seen in New York when he came here…history is just the best!!

Awesome film footage! My late mother was born in 1908 and my late father was born in 1910 as well. We used to visit Manhattan almost ever weekend when I was growing up in the 1950s, i.e. born in 1948 before the shopping centers opened up in the suburbs so we did our shopping on the weekends and also did sightseeing! My father worked around Wall Street! I went to a fashion art school and became a professional fashion illustrator in NYC and lived and worked there in the late 1960s and into the 1970s and attended university there as well. So many changes since then. Have always loved the straw boaters the men wore back then and the fashions of the Edwardian era! The Costume Institute at the MET had a beautiful exhibition one year on all the fashions from that era, the early 1900s. My husband's family from Ukraine /Russia lived on the lower East Side in the early 1900s until they moved to Yonkers where my late father in law was a dentist. Would love to go back in a time machine to visit there and in the 1920s and 30s! During the early 1900s there was the deadly Polio pandemic, and in 1918 the Spanish flu pandemic with no vaccinations back then at all! Polio came here in 1894 and it took til the 1950s to get a vaccination against that thanks to the late great Dr. Jonas Salk! And we had a small pox epidemic as well and got our much needed vaccinations for that as well, all mandated or we couldn't go to school! Our children also had to be vaccinated against highly contagious diseases in the 1980s as well mandated or they couldn't go to school as well. Thanks for taking us down Memory Lane!

I remember reading the written monthly minutes of my Masons lodge from a day in 1925 whereby they created a committee on whether or not to install electricity in the lodge. I've got the monthly meeting minutes back to 1864

Wow that bridge worker eating lunch at about 13 minutes waved at the camera. I bet he had no idea that people will be seeing him over a hundred years later

Nothing but hard working people. Amazing times

The further back in time you go, the more you can appreciate what you have today.

I wish there were more documentaries about this time period. It's extremely interesting

My great grand mother was born in 1902. She was suddenly taken away from me and my first daughter, who was her great great grand daughter, in 1990. I still think about her every day. Through the years i asked her and she told me about so many different things. How nobody locked their doors. How she survived the devastating influenza pandemic that killed three young friends of hers just on her street alone. How people talked face to face all day long and stayed together because they actually needed each other to live, to survive. And many other human cultural extinctions.

My neighbor (when I first moved into my current home) was 8 years old when she fist came from Seattle to Wenatchee, and then by steamboat up the Columbia River... followed by a stage coach to the lake I now live on. It was 1903. I had many a long chat with her about life 'back then' (with a cup of tea each time). Before the US entry into WWI she lived in NY, where she met and once dated John Reed (buried in the Kremlin Wall). She went to Columbia (before Lou Gehrig) and saw Christy Matthewson pitch at the Polo Grounds. She thought her date for the game was a bore... he was too much into baseball. She volunteered as a nurse in WWI and stayed on in Paris after the War. She briefly met Gertrud Stein, Pablo Picasso & Ernest Hemingway (she was not fond of Hemingway). I miss our chats. She lived to be 104.

All four of my grandparents were alive in 1900.

Tesla was the true inventor. He was too intelligent for his time.

Would like to see more documentaries of this caliber. Very neat to watch.

Although 16 year olds working can you imagine a sixteen-year-old today working in a steel mill you can't even get one of them to play outside

I love learning about history, as far back as it goes. My Grandpa was born in 1908, he was the youngest out of 3, and my Grandma was born 1919, there were 8 kids and she's about number 5 or 6 child from 8 kids. When I was a kid growing up in the early 1970s, my Grandpa use to tell me things when he was young. I myself was born 1966 and about the age of 3 years old, I remember becoming close to my Grandpa. My Dad and his two sisters, one older than my Dad and the other younger than him, we all were born old you can say. Love watching old classic movies, love the 1940s Big Band sound of music. So anything I find on KZfaq about the early 1900s, I just got to watch.

My great-grandparents built a Victorian style home in the early 1900's and still lived in it when I was a teenager. I loved the skeleton keys, crystal doorknobs, claw foot bathtubs and curved mahogany staircase. I still have their roll top desk. My great-grandfather spoke of delivering mail on horseback as they lived in a small town. I still remember trying to wash my hands with the separate faucets for hot and cold water 😊

So informative. My grandparents grew up in that era. My grandmother became a very popular seamstress having went thru one of Roosevelts programs.

What an exceptionally profound thorough history video! This should be a month-long curriculum in schools across the United States! Just think of all that they would learn and all the hands on activities that could be done.

Absolutely incredible piece here I could watch this all day long

My Great Grandmother was born in 1917 and I remember visiting her whenever I was a little kid and I’m only 30 years old.

I recommend "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. A book of the Irish working class in early 20th Century. A novel but part biography of the writer's childhood in Brooklyn.

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ ☮ ❤🕊

So interesting to see how many of us have wonderful stories of our families' past and their experiences! I too, am a major history fanatic! I should have studied American Family History in school!

Those clothes and hats. They were all so beautiful and the men in their suits. I would love to go back in so many different periods of time just to be a fly on the wall and watch it all happen.

My Great Grandfather and Great Uncles rode horses from S. Illinois to attend the fair. My Great Uncle said the electric lights was the most amazing thing they saw at the fair.

My great grandma born 1908 till 2011. Very savvy and dearly missed. RiP 🙏 lovely lady ❤u always

When I was younger my late grandmother (b.1890) would tell me about electricity entering homes and gas lights being replaced by bulbs in the streets. She went on to describe how strange it was to see cars in the the street, then airplanes flying overhead… . …Aliens would flip her out!

My grandfather, born 10/1906 - 1/2000... Told me so many stories that I wish I would have recorded. He was a beat cop his whole life and never once had to pull his gun. He told me about riding a donkey to school. Wish I lived during those days

World War 1& 2 was the pressure that pushed us into the world we live in today! - Me

I am 42 now and have lived without cell phones and remember when records were still a thing. We used maps to get places. I remember when the internet and computers were just beginning.

Yeah videos like this are so instrumental in learning history. I wish I was as interested in history when I was younger as I am now.

Lots of criticism on this video but I love documentaries like this that many would call "boring": no flash, just talking about the subject in a factual way.

I can listen to this for the whole day

I absolutely love history. Our past truly defines our future

Excellent presentation of an era of history which many of don't know about and isn't often discussed.

Enjoyed this video, learned a lot. I did have one disappointment about the muckrakers, there are scenes about woman's suffrage yet one of the muckrakers was woman they completely left out of this video, Ida Tarbell who's articles got John D, Rockefeller dragged into court and broke up his monopoly in the oil industry.

Anyone else ever wonder if your ancestors are somewhere in the background of these old videos/photos?

Well done! Definitely brings the last 100 years of American / world history alive. Wish I could have seen this when I was in high school.

As a black person I'm so glad I wasn't born in the south in the 1900s 😬. Oh how far this country has come 🙏🏽

Shout out to my history teacher in 10 th grade- Ms. Harhei. I credit her with my love for History. I love documentaries like these

My grandmother was born in 1895 in rural NC. She used to tell stories about her childhood which I loved to hear re-told many times. She was so proud of her father, who was a "planter" who grew cotton and tobacco. When she was a child they had a "fine carriage" and four "matched" horses, meaning all four were the same breed, color, and size. I guess that was enviable at the time! Her lineage hails from England. They arrived in 1654 when there was no US. It was a raw, untamed land. They came with only their hope and determination, and simple tools and skills.

My great grandmother, born in 1901, remembered when she first saw a "horseless carriage ".

This was great to watch. My Grandmother on my dad's side was born in 1895 in Colorado her parents were born in Sweden. She died when I was 8 in 1984. She was a big influence on me. An old soul.

I’m a Brit and this was so interesting. We are not taught very much about American history and the bit we do learn is biased, so thank you 🙏🏾

What is the name of this Documentary? This is so clear and in depth. No sense of bias and ideology. I’ve never felt such an unfiltered doc in such a long time. 😪

Is this the narrator of the Sandlot? I love watching and hearing stories about how America was made, how people lived and learning something new. Great video

Somebody actually recorded this off the teevee like 30 years ago. Seriously, was this originally on a VHS tape? I bet that explains the little blue film thingie on the bottom right. That is so precious. I want to hug that person.Whoever you are, where ever you are, thank you and I love you.

This is amazing. My parents' parents and went further back, were there for this time period. So awesome of you to share this. If only more people would at least watch these bits of gold on film, that still exist. Thank you for sharing

This is one of the best historical documentaries I have ever seen.

It was in March 2002 I had the pleasure of visiting New York City with a tour group. One of the places we visited was Ellis Island. It certainly gave me an appreciation of how difficult the lives of immigrants must have been. My maternal grandparents came through Ellis Island when entering this country in 1914.

I am LIVING HISTORY. My Father's family traveled in covered wagon when he was five years old. Their trip took them from Indiana to Missouri. Later, they would go from Missouri to Kansas. My Daddy was 61 years old when I was born! He was a WWI Veteran. Now, that I am 66 years old, I know I am truly living history. I have been blessed to be able to crawl into my Daddy's lap as a child and listen to his stories of growing up. Little House on the Prairie would be the TRUTH in my life. I'm grateful that I can honestly state that I AM LIVING HISTORY. Thanks Dad! I miss you and look forward to when we are all together again.

It’s funny how the music changes to the various topics to influence your emotions, historically accurate presentation though.

These kinds of sweeping documentaries don't seem to be made these days. I thought I knew some of this history, but I learned a lot from the narration. Of course, the film that illustrates the age is marvellous.

very interesting 🤔. My Grandma was born in 1904 and my Grandpa in 1905. It reminds me of the stories they had told me since I was a young boy and how things where when they were growing up. Everything was verified with one another with first hand accounts. Such great film footage to bring it to life and being able to see it for myself.

I was born in 1995 and one-day someone will tell their great grandkids that when they were young they knew a man from the 1990’s

I have learned more about the past from utube than I ever did in school, highschool and college....

This is very good my grandmother was born in1903 in Germany and came to America in 1906 with her parents

Thank you for putting this all together - your video really brings that time into perspective.

the really sad thing is the way we treat our elderly if you just sit down and talk with them you will see just how much wisdom they have and a whole lot of common sense.

the thing about people not being schizophrenic or psychotic or not having neurosis back in the old days is that they actually did have all of these thigs, only later we learned they're serious, but treatable conditions and not being 'crazy' or 'different'.

I disliked history in school so much, pretty sure it was the teacher though?!! But I'm definitely enjoying making up for it now! I love leaning of our history! Thank you for this awesome video!!!

I sit here and read this in a house that was built back in 1906. My neighbor and I were speculating on what they talked about sitting in front of the fireplace back then. I told him I was pretty sure they talked about everybody else. Just like they do now. Many things change, but not everything.

Great documentary! Love the old footage! History continues to teach the uninformed. Hopefully history will help to improve society as it moves forward! Thanks for posting.

Fascinating era! Wish there was more out there covering it.

Part of my husband's family were from Girard Kansas and still live there. My Norwegian family came over in the early 1900's but went to Minnesota and Wisconsin.

I LOVE looking at old photos. Just found you and subbed! Love from the UK!

If KZfaq was about when I was in school, I would have aced every subject

my great great grandfather was john d crimmins. he built the subways in new york and the elevated railway. crazy to see this!!!!

My grannie was born near a tiny little town on the Kansas prairie in 1892. The oldest of seven children, she took over a mother's work when her mother died when she was 14. She married in 1910, and lived on farms and ranches in Kansas, Wyoming, and Nebraska. She saw automobiles replace the horse for transportation, and after WWII, saw the tractor replace the plow horse on the farm. She moved to town after my grandfather died - and had indoor plumbing and electricity in her house for the first time. By the late 1950's, she had a gas stove to replace the huge wood burner she had for years. It was still on her back porch until she died. She died in the mid 1970's, never having flown in a plane, and never wanted a television. Her phone was still on a party line. She adopted and adapted to the technology changes that suited her tastes and lifestyle, but never really became part of the new way of life that was in existence when she died. I mind lands in that place somewhere between nostalgia and wonder when I see pictures of her and her life from over 100 years ago.

You can't have a future without history.

My mother was born in 1896. I was the youngest of her family, being born in 1933. It amazes me to think of the changes that taken place in the world in just her and my lifetimes. In my childhood in the Midwest, not every home had a radio, and television was experimental. The interstate highway system hadn't been conceived yet and transoceanic air travel was in its infancy. Nuclear power was science fiction, as was space travel. Radios and even the first computers depended on vacuum tubes, in fact it was when I was a radio operator in the Marines in Korea that our old vacuum tube radios were replaced by ones with transistors, cutting the weight about in half. History should be taught in our schools because how else can the future learn from the mistakes of the past?

I have been so immersed viewing these videos about old newyork from the last 200 years, it is unbelievable, the homes, the buildings, the people and how the city started its transformation up to the 1930-40, it was astonishing.

I hate history subject back in college or hs.. it's simply because of the narrator (prof.) 😅 that time. Now, so dame in love with our history.. thanks to those hu made this vid. Priceless

Without such history...we have nothing to live for...thanks to all who try and save this clips and articles for the future generations

Life was so much harder, but at the same time, so much simpler back then...today is so much easier, but so incredibly complex, now...