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Check out the streaming videos below to see recordings of famous speeches and demonstrations of public speaking and presentation skills.

Great Canadian Speeches
From the News Archives of the CBC comes a two-volume videotape collection capturing key moments in our political history. This resource is an invaluable record of Canadian leaders speaking to Canadians, from Mackenzie King to Jean Chrétien. Each speech is prefaced by informative contextual narratives.
Great Speeches Collection
Features some of history’s most influential addresses—and continues to have a profound impact on the study of speech. Watch as FDR declares war, Churchill attacks Hitler, Harry Truman announces the bombing of Japan, Lou Gehrig bids farewell to baseball, Martin Luther King Jr. relays his dream, Nixon resigns the presidency, Reagan pleads the Berlin Wall be torn down, and a young Barack Obama ignites a 2004 convention in a speech that would change the course of the country.
Public Speaking: Principles of Public Speaking Series
Videos in Series:
Planning a Speech, Delivery, and Audience & Listening Skills
Public Speaking Series
Videos in Series:
Introductory and Impromptu Speeches; Informative & Persuasive Speeches; and Incorporating Research, Visual Aids, and Multimedia
Speeches that Changed the World
This collection of classic speech excerpts contains not only inspiring orations to democratic freedom and the noblest aspects of human endeavor, but also some of the darkest and most despicable speeches delivered in modern times.
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Speech to the Hitler Youth / Adolf Hitler
Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain
Blood, tears, toil; Finest hour / Winston Churchill
The invasion of Russia / Molotov
A day that will live in infamy / Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speech to World War I veterans / Charles de Gaulle
Surrender of Japan / Hirohito
Terms of Japanese surrender / Douglas MacArthur
I have faith in the righteousness of our cause / Gandhi
Ask not what your country can do for you; Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no whitewash at the White House / Richard Nixon
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall / Ronald Reagan
We are truly sorry / Kevin Rudd
Yes, we can / Barack Obama

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