My kids liked Story of the World Disks.... I liked them, they are Semi-Christian but not focused as strongly as I would like. The male narrator ones are best. I am new here but if I can help pm me... I think I can accept PMs, not sure. Hint: PM me.
I really should ask the wife about the books, we homeschooled 4 boys. But my job was teaching shop and driving and hunting and home repair and dumb things not to do while playing with fire.
American Heritage has a US history series (10 disk) this is pretty good... I found it repetitive in some ways... but I think now you can watch them on Youtube (but they will not embed in other web sites). You can rip them from Youtube if you know how, I just borrowed a buddy's copy and ripped into MKV format to watch here.