PickVidsBest Military history & warfare Videos
The 121 Military history & warfare videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 6 intermediate, 111 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include SmarterEveryDay, VICE, Veritasium.
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Sarah Paine, a Naval War College historian, about continental versus maritime powers and how that explains decisions by Xi and Putin.
USS Forrestal C-130 Hercules Carrier Landing Trials
Short archival footage of a USMC KC-130F Hercules making unarrested landings and takeoffs on the USS Forrestal in 1963.
Can A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?
Scott Manley explains the Cold War experiments in which steel and aluminium spheres, known as Lew Allen's Balls, were placed near nuclear detonations.
Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia
RealLifeLore explains France's military posture towards Russia, including French involvement in Africa and Russian influence in the Sahel.
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Tom Lehrer's gallows-humor song about nuclear annihilation, in which everyone goes together when the bomb drops.
AAA THE F-35 IS A LEMON PIERRE SPREY (RUNAWAY FIGHTER) FIFTH ESTATE EXTENDED INTERVW
An extended Fifth Estate interview with Pierre Sprey, designer of the A-10 and a key figure behind the F-16, arguing the F-35 is an over-engineered, expensive failure.
Australian Sub defeats US Navy in exercise
A short clip about the Australian Collins class submarine HMAS Rankin reportedly defeating US Navy ships in a war-game exercise.
Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song Who's Next, about the spread of nuclear weapons, with a spoken introduction.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.
A short 1966 propaganda interview clip in which Jeremiah Denton, a US prisoner of war in Vietnam, blinks the word TORTURE in Morse code.
Obesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012
Lieutenant General Mark Hertling gives a TEDx talk arguing that obesity and poor youth fitness are a national security problem because too few young Americans can meet military physical requirements.
How to Win an Interstellar War
A Kurzgesagt video exploring how advanced civilizations might wage war across light years.
Doctor Strangelove - Doomsday Machine
The Doomsday Machine scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr.
What Happens When Ammo Burns? Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter | SAAMI.org
A SAAMI-produced training video for firefighters explaining what happens when sporting ammunition burns, including that unchambered cartridges lack the energy to penetrate much.
Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq
WikiLeaks' release of cockpit footage from a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a group of men including two Reuters staff, and then a van that came to help the wounded.
Russian missile fails and 'boomerangs back at Russian troops'
A short clip, published by The Sun, of a Russian surface-to-air missile that appears to turn around after launch and hit its own launch site.
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
A three-minute clip of Dwight D.
Fat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD
A Movieclips excerpt from the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy in which John Cusack's character assembles a bomb core and a criticality accident occurs.
Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (Full Documentary)
An Empire Files documentary by Abby Martin presenting a critical account of the Afghanistan War, from the CIA's role in the 1980s to the stalemate of the 2010s and 2020.
The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
Scott Manley tells the story of a computerized telemetry system built to sit at the heart of a nuclear test device in place of the plutonium pit, designed to transmit data in the microseconds before it was destroyed.
How lies destroy armies - Lies, coverups, and Russian failures in Ukraine
Perun's hour-long analysis of how institutional lying, cover-ups and corruption ("vranyo") undermined the Russian military in Ukraine.
Pentagon confirms existence of $22m UFO program, releases incident videos
A short Global News report on the Pentagon confirming a $22 million UFO investigation program and releasing Navy infrared footage from the 2004 Nimitz encounter.
Donald Trump attacks George W. Bush on 9/11, Iraq
CBS News clip from a 2016 Republican primary debate in which Donald Trump attacks George W.
Gulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits It didn't happen.
A four-minute extract from the documentary The Fog of War in which Robert McNamara discusses the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)
The WikiLeaks release of 2007 Apache helicopter gunsight footage from Baghdad, in which a crew kills several people including two Reuters journalists.