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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.

World history Videos Recommended on Hacker News (147)

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Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability

[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906

This giant model stopped a terrible plan

The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery

"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012

Who is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism

Richard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"

Don't Be a Sucker

Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)

The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository

Chinampas of Mexico: Most Productive Agriculture EVER?

Oswald Acted Alone: JFK Assassination Solved (Part 1 of 2)

Chernobyl 3828

They Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters

Kursk: The Epic Armored Engagement (2013)

Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

A New History for Humanity – The Human Era

The 1751 Machine that Made Everything

Work.

Every Ruler Makes the Same Mistake When They Die

The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

The Fallen of World War II

How to write cuneiform with Irving Finkel and @preservethings I Curator's Corner S4 Ep9

The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism

The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)

Pandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot

The Constitution of Athens

The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense

history of the entire world, i guess

Making Mushroom Ketchup - 18th Century Cooking

Holy Post - Race in America

ARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting

[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902

The Iroquois Confederacy