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.
England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1
The first part of Extra History's animated miniseries on the South Sea Bubble.
Alexander Pope Wrote a 35-Page Takedown of a Historian
CGP Grey tells the story of Alexander Pope's long takedown of a historian, Thomas Hearne, framed around the quirks of library books and archival research.
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
Joseph Tainter lectures at a 2010 sustainability conference on why complex societies such as Rome collapse.
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion
A 1985 interview by G.
FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)
The full 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB operative, in which he lays out four stages of ideological subversion.
I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)
Miniminuteman begins a long, humorous point-by-point debunking of Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse and its claims of a lost ice-age civilization.
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
Archaeologist Eric Cline lectures on the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1177 BC, when interconnected Mediterranean empires fell in rapid succession.
2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse
An episode of Fall of Civilizations on the Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1100 BC, when many Eastern Mediterranean societies were destroyed in a short span.
Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Eratosthenes
A short clip from Carl Sagan's Cosmos in which he explains how Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth using shadows in two Egyptian cities.
Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson
A three-hour Joe Rogan Experience conversation with Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson about lost civilizations, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis and Earth's cataclysmic history.
Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length)
A VICE documentary that visits Agafia Lykova, last surviving member of the Lykov family of Old Believers who fled into the Siberian taiga in 1936.
James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965
The 1965 Cambridge Union debate between James Baldwin and William F.
Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability
Historian Timothy Snyder explains the politics of inevitability and the politics of eternity, two ways of thinking about time that frame his books On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom.
[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906
A neural-network upscaled 4K, 60 fps version of the 1906 film of a trip down Market Street in San Francisco, shot four days before the earthquake.
This giant model stopped a terrible plan
Tom Scott tells how John Reber's plan to dam San Francisco Bay was disproved by the Army Corps of Engineers' giant hydraulic Bay Model in Sausalito.
The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery
A long documentary-style video arguing that slavery in the US effectively continued through convict leasing and the prison system until around 1942.
"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012
Locksport historian Schuyler Towne's RVASec 2012 talk on why people lock their doors, tracing the history of locks and the assumptions about security behind them.
Who is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism
An ESOTERICA episode tracing Yahweh from a warrior-storm god near Mt Seir to the god of the Israelites in the Judean highlands.
Richard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"
A 78-minute Richard Feynman lecture of anecdotes about working at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project, followed by about ten minutes of audience Q&A in which he tells three safe-cracking stories.
Don't Be a Sucker
A 1945 US Army educational film that dramatizes how demagogues use prejudice and scapegoating to divide people.
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
A 1983 Los Angeles lecture by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov on how the Soviets carried out ideological subversion of target societies through propaganda.
The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository
A 98-minute LEMMiNO video reconstructing what happened inside the Texas School Book Depository before, during, and after the Kennedy assassination.
Chinampas of Mexico: Most Productive Agriculture EVER?
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the chinampas, the floating gardens of Xochimilco in Mexico City.
Oswald Acted Alone: JFK Assassination Solved (Part 1 of 2)
The first part of a long two-part video series by historian Sean Munger arguing, with citations, that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy and acted alone.