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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.

1 mo on HN

DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay

eon3
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
1 mo on HN

Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

Dwarkesh Patel
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

The centuries-old debt that's still paying interest

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

Why the Soviet Computer Failed

Asianometry
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

Youtube Pedant
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HN

[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890

Denis Shiryaev
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris

pigwiththefaceofaboy
1 HN recommend · 2011–2021
1 mo on HN

The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Ukraine on Fire

Global Tree Pictures
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
1 mo on HN

15. The Nabataeans - The Last Days Of Petra

Fall of Civilizations
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.

Audie Murphy American Legend
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
1 mo on HN

Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal

truTV
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HN

Prof. Timur Kuran on "The Portal", Episode #004: "The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception."

Eric Weinstein
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis HD Full [2016] [Subs]

L33T GUY
1 HN recommend · 2019–2026
1 mo on HN

How the pyramids were built in Egypt

Geopolymer Institute
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
0 mo on HN

Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret

HistoryFlicks4u
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HN

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.

RobUniv
0 HN recommender · 2013–2017
0 mo on HN

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (Full Documentary)

Empire Files
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HN

Gulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits It didn't happen.

compelled2283
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)

Folk Survival
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023
0 mo on HN

Schaliegas: USSR Gas Well Blow Out = Nuclear Bomb Puts Out Fire

Stop Schaliegas
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HN

Is America Actually Metric?

Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HN

The History of Europe: Every Year

Cottereau
0 HN recommender · 2018–2024
0 mo on HN

The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon

KATU News
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HN

Legal Drunk Drivers from the 1960s

Robert Exley
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

I was wrong (and so was everyone)

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2022–2023
0 mo on HN

Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic

National Geographic
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HN

Russia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen blast | REUTERS

Reuters
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HN

Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion

Mrgunsngear B Channel
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HN

This library has every book ever published.

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HN

Gamal Abdel Nasser laughing at Muslim Brotherhood hijab requirement in 1958 (subtitled)

Video Clips
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HN

The Netherlands Is Not 'Holland.' It Never Was.

CGP Grey
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HN

The Dark History of "Left-Wing" Zionism

Bes D. Marx
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
0 mo on HN

Rick Suddeth: USSR: Moscow 1989 Grocery Store

Rick Suddeth
0 HN recommender · 2015–2021
0 mo on HN

Napoleon's greatest foe

Lindybeige
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HN

First Strike (Part 1)

filmsouth
0 HN recommender · 2015–2021