Best World history Videos
「World history」下面有147部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门7部,适合还没学过的人;进阶4部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向136部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是讲解,所以它们的共同点是用一个图像或类比把一个概念补上。常出现的频道包括CGP Grey、Tom Scott、Denis Shiryaev。目录给这个主题划的范围是:History: ancient civilizations, medieval, empires, 20th century history, Cold War, archival footage, history documentaries, historical lectures, Dan Carlin, history of ideas and places.如果只看三部,就从《Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

Prof. Timur Kuran on "The Portal", Episode #004: "The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception."
Eric Weinstein interviews economist Timur Kuran on The Portal about preference falsification and how societies where people hide their real views can tip into revolutions.

HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis HD Full [2016] [Subs]
Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary argues that since the 1970s governments, financiers and technologists have retreated into a simplified fake world.

How the pyramids were built in Egypt
The Geopolymer Institute presents Joseph Davidovits's theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built from cast artificial limestone, a geopolymer concrete, rather than carved blocks.

Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret
A 1956 episode clip of the game show I've Got a Secret in which 95-year-old Samuel J.

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
A three-minute clip of Dwight D.

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.

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.

Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)
Short archival film footage of an 87-year-old farmer interviewed in 1929, born in 1842, talking about life and change.

Schaliegas: USSR Gas Well Blow Out = Nuclear Bomb Puts Out Fire
A short clip showing how the Soviet Union used a nuclear explosion to extinguish a blown-out, burning gas well.

Is America Actually Metric?
Veritasium explains that the US signed the Metre Convention in 1875 and that all US customary units are officially defined in terms of metric standards.

The History of Europe: Every Year
An animated map showing the borders and populations of European countries for every year since 400 BC.

The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
A KATU News re-edit from remastered 4K footage of the 1970 Oregon incident in which officials blew up a beached whale and showered the beach with blubber.

Legal Drunk Drivers from the 1960s
A 1967 current-affairs segment interviews habitual drunk drivers just before the UK introduced the breathalyser.

I was wrong (and so was everyone)
Tom Scott's correction video on his earlier claim that 18th-century insurance firefighters let uninsured buildings burn.

Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
A one-minute National Geographic clip of researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo testing a theory that Easter Islanders used ropes to rock the moai statues upright to walk them to their platforms.

Russia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen blast | REUTERS
A short Reuters news clip showing declassified Russian footage of the 1961 Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.

Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion
A 1984 interview with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov on ideological subversion and psychological warfare, reposted in 2020 with a modern political framing.

This library has every book ever published.
Tom Scott visits the British Library, a UK legal deposit library that receives a copy of everything published, and discusses storing so much material, including the web archive.

Gamal Abdel Nasser laughing at Muslim Brotherhood hijab requirement in 1958 (subtitled)
A subtitled 1958 clip of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser recounting, with laughter, a Muslim Brotherhood suggestion that women be required to wear a head covering.

The Netherlands Is Not 'Holland.' It Never Was.
A short CGP Grey explainer on why 'Holland' is wrong as a name for the whole country of the Netherlands.

The Dark History of "Left-Wing" Zionism
A long-form video essay on the history of labor or 'left-wing' Zionism, drawing on historians of Palestine and Zionism to argue it played a role in dispossessing Palestinians.

Rick Suddeth: USSR: Moscow 1989 Grocery Store
A short amateur clip of a Moscow grocery store from 1989, filmed by a visiting production worker.

Napoleon's greatest foe
Lindybeige's long video on Napoleon's most effective opponent, Sir Sidney Smith, with plenty of detail on Napoleon's misdeeds along the way.

First Strike (Part 1)
A dramatization of a hypothetical Soviet first strike that destroys US bombers and Minuteman missiles, filmed with US Air Force cooperation.