The Mechanical Universe and Beyond

The Mechanical Universe and Beyond

• Video Lectures (University of California, 1985) (requires registration)
  

This series helps teachers demystify physics by showing students what it looks like. Field trips to hot-air balloon events, symphony concerts, bicycle shops, and other locales make complex concepts more accessible. Inventive computer graphics illustrate abstract concepts such as time, force, and capacitance, while historical reenactments of the studies of Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell, and others trace the evolution of theories. The Mechanical Universe helps meet different students' needs, from the basic requirements of liberal arts students to the rigorous demands of science and engineering majors. This series is also valuable for teacher professional development.

I own a DVD of these lectures (you can buy it) and have watched just a few of these lectures.
These lectures note historical events of physics and try to imitate atmosphere at the time certain discoveries were made.