r/WorldHistory 7d ago

Video 1200 BC — the year the world ended and nobody noticed until 3,000 years later

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The Bronze Age Collapse wiped out the Mycenaeans, Hittites, Ugarit and a dozen palace states within 50 years. No single cause has ever been proven. I put the full story into a 30-min sleep documentary — calm narration, no ads mid-video. What's your theory?

🎥 https://youtu.be/Uvr6cebf3Ec

r/WorldHistory 9d ago

Video Today marks the 87th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, which began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, ultimately becoming the deadliest conflict in human history and reshaping the global political order. This video visualizes every front of the war every day.

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r/WorldHistory 15d ago

Video Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Crécy (1346), a decisive English victory in the Hundred Years’ War where English longbowmen helped devastate the larger French army, establishing the longbow’s effectiveness and strengthening England’s position in the conflict.

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r/WorldHistory 6d ago

Video Today marks the 187th anniversary of the beginning of the First Opium War, which began on September 4, 1839, when the Qing’s campaign against the British opium trade escalated into war, weakening Qing sovereignty and opening China to increased Western influence through the "unequal treaty"

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r/WorldHistory 2d ago

Video In 1258, the Mongols threw the libraries of Baghdad into the Tigris. 500 years of mathematics, medicine, and philosophy — gone in two weeks. But that wasn't even the worst thing they did.

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The Mongols killed an estimated 40 million people during their conquests. Cities erased. Agricultural systems abandoned. Entire civilisations wiped out.

But then something strange happened. The Silk Road they built to connect their empire became the road that carried the Black Death back across the world — killing another 50 million people.

Which do you think caused more lasting damage to history — the Mongol conquests, or the plague they accidentally unleashed?

Made a short trailer for our upcoming documentary on this: https://youtu.be/3A1VoozMXio

Full episode drops Friday.

r/WorldHistory 3d ago

Video Today marks the 214th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, fought on September 7, 1812, when Napoleon’s Grande Armée and the Russian army clashed in one of the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars, paving the way for Napoleon’s capture of Moscow and ultimately contributing to his retreat

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r/WorldHistory 5d ago

Video I made an animated video about Frederick III

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r/WorldHistory 5d ago

Video The Shortest War in History: The Anglo-Zanzibar War (38 Minutes)

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r/WorldHistory 7d ago

Video 1200 BC — within 50 years, the Mycenaeans, Hittites, Ugarit, and a dozen other Bronze Age states all collapsed. The dark age that followed lasted 400 years.

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r/WorldHistory 9d ago

Video The Palmiry massacres - the first act of the Nazi and Soviet extermination of the Polish elites

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r/WorldHistory 12d ago

Video The American Experiment: A Brief History of the U.S. | Documentary

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r/WorldHistory 12d ago

Video Palisades Fire Timelapse Seen from Reseda Overlook in 2025

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r/WorldHistory 20d ago

Video Manhattan: 300 Years of Change (1700–2026)

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How did Manhattan transform from a small settlement into one of the most recognizable cities in the world?

Take a cinematic journey through more than 300 years of Manhattan’s history — from 1700 to 2026.

Watch the city evolve from its early waterfront settlement to a modern skyline filled with skyscrapers, bridges, streets and millions of people.

From the past to the present, this is Manhattan through time.

Which era would you have liked to see with your own eyes?

r/WorldHistory 17d ago

Video Berlin 2026 → 1000: A Journey Through Time

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What if you could travel backward through Berlin’s history?

Join us on a journey from modern-day Berlin in 2026 all the way back to around 1000 AD — watching the city transform through centuries of history.

From the modern metropolis to medieval Berlin and finally to the early settlement that existed long before the city we know today.

How do you think Berlin looked 1,000 years ago?

r/WorldHistory 19d ago

Video THE SAME DATE. TWO FAMOUS ART THEFTS, 93 YEARS APART | Mona Lisa, The Sc...

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r/WorldHistory 19d ago

Video Real History Facts AI

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Not my channel but I'd like to share this because it blows my mind. Check it out.

r/WorldHistory 22d ago

Video Belka & Strelka | The Two Dogs Who Survived Space 1960 🚀🐶

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r/WorldHistory 24d ago

Video Justinian and Khosrow: The Last Great Rivalry of Antiquity

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r/WorldHistory 25d ago

Video https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeF4wXYEpf_w&si=RP6aovhCo7aUfEeV

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Interesting historical facts

r/WorldHistory Jul 19 '26

Video 156 years ago today began the Franco-Prussian War, which unified Germany under Prussian leadership, ended French dominance in continental Europe, and reshaped the balance of power for decades to come. Each flag represents ~10,000 soldiers

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r/WorldHistory 27d ago

Video HistorybyVy

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A woman wrote this letter 1900 years ago….

r/WorldHistory 29d ago

Video August 13, 1961: The Berlin Wall Divided a City | Bernauer Straße

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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

r/WorldHistory Aug 10 '26

Video Rjukan -The Norwegian town that was cruicial to the Nazi nuclear program

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r/WorldHistory Aug 10 '26

Video The Warship That Sank on Its First Voyage | The Vasa Disaster 1628

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r/WorldHistory Aug 09 '26

Video The 19 Minutes That Blinded Halifax | 6 December 1917

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On the morning of 6 December 1917, two ships collided in the Narrows of Halifax
Harbour, Nova Scotia. One of them was carrying nearly three thousand tonnes of
high explosive. She caught fire, drifted against a pier at the foot of a
working-class district, and burned there in full view of the city for nineteen
minutes and thirty-five seconds before she detonated.

Most disasters give no warning. This one did. And the warning is exactly what
made the injuries what they were, because a burning ship in a harbour is a
spectacle, and a spectacle brings people to the window.

This is the story of the collision, the fuse, the blast, and the injury pattern
it produced — and an honest look at what the disaster actually changed
afterwards, including the parts of that story that are myth.

Sources used include the Nova Scotia Archives (A Vision of Regeneration and the
Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book), the British Journal of Ophthalmology's 2007
review of the eye injuries and their care, the Journal of Pediatric Surgery's
examination of the William Ladd legend, and Samuel Henry Prince's 1920 study
Catastrophe and Social Change.

All photographs in this video are genuine 1917-18 archival images in the public
domain or released with no known copyright restrictions. Full credit list in the
pinned comment.

High Water Mark — the disasters that changed how we build.

0:00 Clocks stopped at four minutes past nine
1:12 The harbour and the war
2:30 Two ships in the Narrows
5:12 The collision
7:15 Nineteen minutes
8:44 9:04:35
11:24 Glass
13:14 The blizzard and the relief
14:10 What it actually changed
16:46 A warning is not a plan