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.
Some Countries Exist Only on Paper
A short CGP Grey explainer about how countries are defined, why recognition by others matters, and the oddities of places like Taiwan and Vatican City.
Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation (Full Length)
A long interview with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov describing what he calls ideological subversion, a process of demoralizing a nation.
I finally made GARUM | Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
Max Miller of Tasting History makes garum, the fermented fish sauce of ancient Rome, using a same-day recipe.
Wuppertal Schwebebahn 1902 & 2015 side by side video
A side-by-side edit lining up footage of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended monorail filmed in 1902 and in 2015.
A Trip Down Market Street, 1906 - With Sound!
A sound-designed restoration of the Miles brothers' 1906 film shot from a cable car down Market Street in San Francisco, four days before the earthquake.
Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized
An Empire Files episode giving a timeline of Zionist settlement, the Nakba and Israel's expansion over Palestinian land, presented from a critical, anti-colonial viewpoint.
The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal | Adam Ruins Everything
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that US cannabis prohibition grew out of racially and politically motivated agendas under Nixon and earlier, rather than scientific evidence.
McNamara meets with Castro (Fog of War)
A two-minute clip from the documentary The Fog of War in which Robert McNamara recalls Fidel Castro explaining how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?
A short video of a man moving a 20 ton stone block by himself using wood and levers.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle
The 1951 US civil defense film 'Duck and Cover', starring Bert the Turtle, which taught schoolchildren to drop and shield themselves during a nuclear attack.
The Bronze Age Collapse - Before the Storm - Extra History - Part 1
The first part of Extra History's series on the Bronze Age Collapse, introducing the Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, and Mycenaeans and their interlinked system of trade, agriculture, and war before the Sea Peoples arrive.
history of japan
Bill Wurtz's fast, comedic and musical run through the whole history of Japan in nine minutes.
DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay
Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback and Sorrows of Empire, lectures on parallels between the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the United States.
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.
The centuries-old debt that's still paying interest
Tom Scott visits Yale's archives to look at a 367-year-old bond from a Dutch water authority that is still paying interest.
Why the Soviet Computer Failed
An Asianometry explainer on why the Soviet Union, once a leading computing power, fell far behind the US in computers by the 1980s.
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape
Six minutes of street scenes from New York City in 1993, captured from a D-Theater HD DVHS demo tape that reused footage shot for the Japanese HiVision market.
[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890
Denis Shiryaev's neural-network-upscaled, colorized 60 fps version of film footage shot in Paris between 1896 and 1900.
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
A song by Pig With The Face Of A Boy that narrates the history of the Soviet Union from a worker's view, set to the Tetris melody.
The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
A Vox explainer on how many of the British Museum's treasures were taken during British imperial rule, focusing on the Benin Bronzes and requests for their return.
Ukraine on Fire
A 2016 documentary by Igor Lopatonok that gives a historical perspective on Ukraine's divisions, the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Maidan uprising.
15. The Nabataeans - The Last Days Of Petra
A two-hour episode of Fall of Civilizations on the Nabataeans, from humble desert traders to masters of Petra, and what finally brought down their empire.
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.
Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that political motives, including Nixon's, lay behind making marijuana illegal.