55 (Mostly) Short Videos Worth Watching

Humor:
1. Tim Hawkins: Things You Don’t Say to Your Wife.
Chick-fil-A
I Don’t Drink Beer

Tim Hawkins Comedy website.

2. Rhett and Link youtube channel
Facebook Song
The Barbecue Song
The Guacamole Song
3. Igudesman and Joo: Rachmaninov had BIG hands
I will survive
Ticket to Ride
4. Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Unforgettably bad.
5. Chonda Pierce: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Chonda Pierce: Honeymoon Package

Books and Reading:
6. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
7. Mark Dever: Creating a Culture of Reading in Your Church
8. The Joy of Books

9. Louis Markos: Introduction to Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
10. The World’s Longest Children’s Book Domino Rally
11. A 26-minute interview with JRR Tolkien at his home

History:
12. A Trip Down Market Street, 1906, San Francisco.
13. Art of 1908
14. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911
15. Titanic, 1912, original photos from the ship
16. Red Skelton interprets the Pledge of Allegiance
17. Louis Zamperini on CBS Sunday Morning

Poetry:
18. Robert Frost Reads his poem, The Death of a Hired Man
19. The Creation by James Weldon Jonson, performed by Wintley Phipps
20. Go Down, Death by James Weldon Johnson, performed by Wintley Phipps
21. How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis.
22. Michael Gough reading T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
23. Henry V, St. Crispin’s Day Speech
24. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter . . .
25. Taylor Mali: Like, You Know?
26. Neil Gaiman: Instructions

Movies and Songs:
27. Popular Music, 1900-1909
28. The Movies of 1939: THe Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Gone With the Wind
29. Gershwin Playing I Got Rhythm and An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue
30. Heart of Texas movie trailer. Watch the entire movie if you can. I thought it was wonderful.
31. The Keith Green Story: a one hour documentary about the life of Christian musician Keith Green.
32. Giant Wooden Xylophone in the woods play Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
33.Som Sabadell Flashmob: Jesu, God of Man’s Desiring
Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus

Christian Life:
34. Unexpected Joy: The Dailey Family. Frisco, Texas.
35. Resurrection Sunday Dance in Budapest, Hungary, 2010
36. The Kimyal people of Papua, Indonesia receive the Bible in their own language
37. The Story of Jonah, retold by a master storyteller.
38. Cardboard Testimonies
39. I Am Second: These videos of Christian testimonies of people from all walks of life are powerfully moving and inspirational.
40. Ryan Ferguson recites (and interprets dramatically) Psalm 22.
Ryan Ferguson: Hebrews 9 and 10. I highly recommend that you check out this dramatic presentation of God’s Word.
41. Nick Vujicic: Extraordinary. Nick Vujicic Fully Living for Jesus Christ

Current Events:
42. 180 Movie: What changed their minds . . . in seconds? (For adults and young adults only)
43. will by Eusong Lee. An animated film about 9/11 and its aftermath.

Miscellaneous:
44.Much Better Now. A bookmark, yes, a bookmark, discovers life and the great wide world.
45. Crayola Monologues
46. TangleDoodle Art
47. A Murmuration of Starlings
48. Snoopy versus the Red Baron, aka Snoopy’s Christmas
49. Nature by Numbers A video about mathematical patterns in nature.
50. Roger Scruton on Why Beauty Matters. This is an hour-long BBC documentary on beauty in art and architecture, well worth the time to watch. “Not only has art made a cult of ugliness; architecture, too, has become soulless and sterile.”
51. Adam Savage at MakerFaire on Why We Make. “It doesn’t matter what you make and it doesn’t matter why, the importance is that you are making something!”
52. How Great Is Our God with Louie Giglio. If the Earth were a golf ball, then the sun would be 15 feet in diameter. And our God made it all!
53. Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man, a short movie from Whitestone Motion Pictures.
54. Whodunnit? An Awareness Test How observant are you?
55. Validation, a short film about parking, photos, and smiles. It’s not the whole gospel, but it’s got a lot of Truth.

2 thoughts on “55 (Mostly) Short Videos Worth Watching

  1. I’ve seen many of these: Tim Hawkins, some of Igudesman and Joo, the Bilbo Baggins ballad, the Joy of Books, Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance, Taylor Mali’s Like, You Know? ) love that one!), and John Astin’s Raven (or most of it, anyway.) But I see many others here I’d like to come back and watch!

    One of my favorite channels on YouTube is The Piano Guys, especially “Nearer, My God to Thee” for 9 cellos:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosY-UrpHcA&list=UUmKurapML4BF9Bjtj4RbvXw&index=8&feature=plcp

    ..and Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Simple Gifts:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzF_y039slk&list=UUmKurapML4BF9Bjtj4RbvXw&index=7&feature=plcp

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