PickVidsBest World history Videos
The 147 World history videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 7 introductory, 4 intermediate, 136 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include CGP Grey, Tom Scott, Denis Shiryaev.
Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown
CGP Grey's animated adaptation of The Dictator's Handbook, explaining how rulers stay in power by keeping a small group of key supporters happy rather than ruling fairly.
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
An animated 44-minute summary of Ray Dalio's book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order.
London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.
CGP Grey explains that the City of London is a tiny, separate entity with its own governance, history and privileges, distinct from the city called London.
Why Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction
CGP Grey explains why European diseases devastated the Americas while few deadly diseases traveled the other way.
8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities
Episode 8 of the Fall of Civilizations podcast, a roughly two and a half hour history of the Sumerians.
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
A feature-length documentary on how the City of London and Britain's overseas territories built a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions after the empire declined.
The UK Is a Country Made of Countries
CGP Grey's quick, witty explainer on the differences between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England, and the countries that make up the UK.
Tiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018
A 2018 lecture, with subtitles available, by former Finnish intelligence colonel Martti J.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at Google
David Graeber's Talks at Google presentation on his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, covering the history of debt, the myth of barter and the Jubilee tradition.
The EU Has Orbits, and the UK Fell Out of All of Them
CGP Grey's six-minute explainer of the relationships the UK could have with the EU, based on Barnier's slide, shown as orbits of different closeness.
Most Cities Got More Democratic. This One Didn't.
CGP Grey explains the City of London's unusual governance, including the Lord Mayor, guilds, and how it differs from the rest of London.
HyperNormalisation 2016
Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation, about 160 minutes long.
Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations
Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech arguing that Britain owes reparations to its former colonies, focused on the effects of British rule in India.
James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"
Episode 4 of James Burke's Connections series, tracing how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death shaped the move to the Renaissance.
The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3)
Part one of Montemayor's animated-map documentary on the Battle of Midway, told using only the information available to the Japanese side.
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
Veritasium tells the story of Thomas Midgley Jr., who introduced leaded gasoline and CFCs, and covers the science behind lead exposure and ozone damage.
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
The first class of Timothy Snyder's Yale course on the making of modern Ukraine.
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet came to him for examination.
Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
Irving Finkel of the British Museum lectures at the Royal Institution on the invention and decipherment of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, and why it is so hard to translate.
Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | PLAYTHROUGH | International Tabletop Day 2017
Tom Scott plays the Royal Game of Ur against British Museum curator Irving Finkel, who deciphered its rules from a cuneiform tablet.
The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1
The first episode of Crash Course World History, in which John Green covers the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and how it shaped civilization.
Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained
Bill Hammack of engineerguy explains how medieval engineers designed stone cathedrals using rules of thumb, with no science, mathematics or literacy.
Happy People | Spring (part 1) [Happy People Documentary | Spring in Siberia Part 1
The first part of Dmitry Vasyukov's four-part Russian documentary series about trappers and villagers living in the Siberian taiga.
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Steve Blank tells how World War II, Stanford's Frederick Terman and military and intelligence agencies shaped the rise of Silicon Valley.