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.
Kursk: The Epic Armored Engagement (2013)
A panel at The National WWII Museum on the Battle of Kursk, moderated by Keith Huxen with historians Robert Citino and John Parshal.
Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
A very long video essay by Shaun on the decisions and motivations behind the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a detailed timeline and argument that they were not militarily necessary.
Celestial Navigation (instruction video)
A roughly 45-minute vintage US military instructional film that gives a comprehensive overview of celestial navigation, covering sextant use and the theory behind lines of position.
America's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
Machine Thinking tells the story of the Cold War Heavy Press Program, the giant forging presses that make parts for aircraft, missiles and turbines.
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
Novelist Daniel Suarez warns in a TED talk about autonomous robotic weapons and drones.
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven
Admiral William McRaven's 2014 University of Texas commencement address, built around lessons from Navy SEAL training.
How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
Veritasium tells how Kodak film was fogged by radioactive fallout from the first atomic tests, letting the company detect nuclear testing before anyone announced it.
The Fallen of World War II
Neil Halloran's animated, data-driven documentary visualizes the human cost of World War II and compares it with other wars and the trend toward fewer war deaths in recent decades.
America's Nerve Gas Arsenal
A 1973 NBC News documentary on the US nerve gas arsenal, covering leaks in Okinawa, a Utah test that killed thousands of sheep, and the long-term hazards of storage sites.
Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs
A 60 Minutes segment in which Navy pilots describe encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena, ahead of a report due to Congress.
Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution
A roughly ten-minute scene from the movie The Pentagon Wars showing how the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's requirements ballooned through committee demands into a compromised design.
OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney, a long-time associate of John Boyd, presents Boyd's thinking on the OODA loop and evolutionary epistemology.
No, The Tank Is Not Dead.
Armor expert The Chieftain explains why tanks still have a place on the modern battlefield despite drones and guided weapons.
ARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting
Tod's Workshop fires full-weight medieval arrows from a 160lb English warbow at reproduced medieval armour.
Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability - Part 1
Part one of Sandia National Labs' first-person documentary on the use control, detonation safety and survivability of US nuclear weapons.
Soyuz Launch Escape Tower System
Short footage of the 1983 Soyuz T-10-1 pad fire, in which the launch escape tower pulled the crew away seconds before the rocket exploded.
Nord Stream sabotage and hybrid war on Europe
Anders Puck Nielsen analyzes the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage using Kilcullen's theory of liminal warfare and prospect theory.
How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine
Perun analyzes how corruption and theft in defence procurement hollowed out the Russian military before its invasion of Ukraine.
The US Military’s Massive Global Transportation System
Wendover Productions explains how the US military moves people and materiel worldwide, including prepositioned equipment, sealift and airlift.
Why Japan had NO Chance in WW2
Military History Visualized charts ship production by the United States and Japan from December 1941 to September 1945.
How I Boarded a US NAVY NUCLEAR SUBMARINE in the Arctic (ICEX 2020) - Smarter Every Day 237
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day documents boarding a US Navy nuclear submarine in the Arctic during the ICEX 2020 under-ice exercise.
This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
Tom Scott visits the Swiss Military Museum to see the last surviving 1970s tank-driving simulator.
Slaughterbots
An 8-minute fictional short film, made by campaigners for a ban on autonomous weapons, depicting swarms of cheap AI-guided micro-drones used to kill targeted people.
🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
Last Day of War is an award-winning CGI animated short by Dima Fedotov in which automated machines keep following orders and prepare a bomber after all humans are dead.