World history Videos Recommended on Hacker News (147)

World history is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 147 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 401 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

History: ancient civilizations, medieval, empires, 20th century history, Cold War, archival footage, history documentaries, historical lectures, Dan Carlin, history of ideas and places.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown: “CGP Grey's excellent Rules for Rulers video” — an HN commenter, 2018.