A Good Context Review for Use in Short Attention Span Theatre

Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann said a few decades ago, that what we really needed in education was some kind of "crude look at the whole".
This "Big History" video series would be a good thing for everyone to watch, before they start to work together on well, anything? It teaches about the big context...
Big History Crash Course
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMczXZUmjb3mZSU1Roxnrey 


Information overload: A crude Look At the Whole
part one
part two