Summaries of Simple History Videos 📚

Tank Silencer (Weird Tech)

Why do the British salute differently to the Americans?

Trench Systems (Cross Section)

Salvo (Military Tactic)

The Great Emu War, 1932 (Weird Wars)

T-14 Armata Tank: Russia’s New Threat?

Weird Russian Weapons in History

Life Inside the Vietcong Tunnels (Cross Section)

The Bataan Death March (1942)

The WWII Japanese Soldier Who Didn’t Surrender Until 1974

The 4 Great Inventions that changed the world (China)

The Great Missouri Train Robbery (1874)

What is the FSB and why is it so Feared?

F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Teams (Domestic Delta)

The GIANT Sioux Warrior of the Korean War

Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space (1961)

Spring Heeled Jack (Strange Stories)

Was This Britain's Vietnam War? - The Malayan Emergency

Drunkard's Cloak (Weird Punishments in History)

The Mystery of the 9 Russian Hikers found Dead

Gurkha (World War II)

How the Mafia and U.S. Military Collaborated in WWII

WWII Tanks: Tiger I - Heavy Tank

The Prisoners who Used Fake Heads to Escape Alcatraz

The Phalanx CIWS - The US Navy's deadly R2D2

The London Beer Flood of 1814 (Strange Stories)

WWII Factions: The Chinese Army

The Volkswagen Beetle and its Dark origins

Powerful Aircraft in History

Amazing Cross Sections- WW1 Trench, WW1 Tank and Lancaster Bomber Plane

The US Army & German Wehrmacht VS Waffen SS - Battle for Castle Itter 1945

The Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)

What Makes a Good Gun Design

WWII Factions: The U.S. Army

RAF Fighter Pilot (World War II)

Secret Cold War Gadgets

The Resistance fighter who taunted “I shoot better!” at her Execution

Big Brain Prison Escapes

The Aztec Ballgame where the Losers were Sacrificed

The Green Beret who went on a one man Rampage to save his Comrades

Sniper Decoys: Fake Horse and other Dummies

The AC130 that Could Land in a Small Soccer Stadium

Savage War Crimes

Terrible Moments from Each Generation

Stupid Things that Bored Soldiers Do

St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)

Rationing in WWII (British Homefront)

U-Boats (World War II)

NATO (1949-)

Why was a Pig put on trial in Medieval Europe? (Strange History)

Australian Penal Colonies

Real Life GTA Moments in History

The Electrician who escaped the desert by turning his car into a motorbike

Tanks! Monsters of the battlefield!

Nazi Germany's Secret UFO in WW2

Spartan Warriors began training at this age

Why you Must NOT Shoot Medics in War

Old WW1 Veterans who Kept Fighting in WW2

The Blitz (1940-41)

Battle for Pavlov's House (WWII)

Most Evil Dictators and What they Did

How Brutal Were The British Prison Colonies?

Battle of Mirbat (9 SAS Soldiers VS 300 Adoo Guerrillas)

U.S. Infantry Weapons (Vietnam War)

Sikh Bayonet Charge Hero - Wipe out at Bum La Pass

Korean People's Army Guards who Escaped North Korea

WWI Tanks: FT-17 Light Tank

Did the T-34 Tank Win WW2?

The Worst Betrayals in History

Rasputin, the man who wouldn't die (Strange Stories)

Sea Kamikaze (WWII Military Tactic)

Goliath (World War II Robot)

The Russian Revolution (1917)

Unique Bullets (Cross Section)

Watch Towers

The US Marine who fought with a GUN made from 3 GUNS!

Viking Myths you thought were true!

Strange Military Traditions

The Sports Hero Who Died a War Hero

D-Day (1944)

Vietcong Booby Traps

Inhumane Punishments in History

Periscope Rifles (Weird Tech)

Schwerer Gustav - Rail Super Gun (Behemoth)

Why Barbers have a Pole outside their Shop

The Man who Fought with a Longbow and a Sword in WWII

The Soldier who fought in 3 Armies

U.S Army CBRN-Last defense against Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Unluckiest Cat EVER!

U.S. B-17 Bomber Crewman (World War II)

The Stolen Tank Rampage! (1995)

Absurd Stories from the Afghanistan War

B-17 Ball Turret Gunner (Dangerous Jobs in History)

Char 2C Super Heavy Tank (Behemoth)

How Tanks are Stolen in War

Most Unfair Wars in History

U.S. Soldier who Fought NVA Troops while High on Marijuana (Stories from The Vietnam War)

Life Under THE Most Evil Communist Regime - Khmer Rouge

Weird Camouflage in History

The Ratte - The Biggest Tank Ever Designed

Improvised Samurai Weapons: the Kiseru (Pipe)

The Ancient Greek Olympics (776 BC-393 AD)

Drill Sergeant Training Techniques

Dummy Tanks (Weird Tech WWII)

Operation Rolling Thunder (1965 - 68)

The Samurai

15 Improvised Weapons Inmates Built in Prison

History Mysteries YOU Can't Solve

“The Incredibly Stupid One” (Stories from The Vietnam War)

How the West Betrayed Czechoslovakia to Hitler (The Munich Agreement,1938)

The Bodies used as Landmarks on Mt. Everest

What Really caused 'Gulf War Syndrome'?

What simple invention ended the Wild West?

The Cannibal Escape (Strange Stories)

The Biscari Massacre, U.S. War Crime (World War II)

Air Force One

Sentry Duty (World War I)

Imperial Japan's Lost Tiger Tank of WW2

Useless Overweight Tanks of WW2

How to Survive the Spanish Flu (1918-20)

The Russian Sniper who killed 242 Enemy Soldiers

The Man Who Survived TWO Tactical Nukes (Strange Stories of World War II)

How Hygienic were People in the Past?

The Monk that Burned Himself to Death (The Vietnam war)

Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft (1955 -)

An NVA soldier and his son hid in the jungle for 40 years thinking the Vietnam War was still ongoing

Why were these 2 planes stuck together? (World War II)

How did this Convict escape Prison using Miso Soup? (Strange Stories)

Soviet Young Pioneers (1922-91)

Real One Man Armies

Taking a Mortar to the leg, this Marine kept fighting

War for Profit: Private Militaries in History

The PIAT (Anti-tank weapon)

Most Obese, Tallest and Shortest Soldiers in War

The Americans that fought for Germany in World war II

Convicts Recruited into the Russian Army

Battle of Bunker Hill (The American Revolution)

Low I.Q. People Forced to Become Soldiers (Vietnam War)

Aztec Sacrifice

The Murders of Jack the Ripper

Hitler's Evil Lair in the German Mountains (The Eagle's Nest)

The Rarest Guns of World War II

Axis Punishments of WW2

Japan's Unlikely Allies in WW2

Why did Soldiers use guns from home or captured weapons?

Sanitäter German medic (World War II)

Russia's Assault on Ukraine

The Berlin Wall (1961-1989)

Who Killed William II? (Murder Mystery)

The President that Kept Reading a Speech after being Shot

The Bullet that Started WWI

The Defense of Fort Vaux (1916, World War I)

Scary History Compilation Series 1

Handheld Shields (World War I)

Tunnel Rats (The Vietnam war)

The Plague that made People Dance until they Dropped Dead

Secret Organisations of the West and East

Panzer Crewman (World War II)

The Hideous Habsburg Jaw

The Space Shuttle

Life inside a M4 Sherman (Cross Section)

The Feared Korean Soldier: From KPOP to Spec Ops

Stolen Valor (Fake Soldiers)

Gunslingers of the Wild West

Stahlhelm M1916 (World War I)

Allied soldiers Crucified by Germans in WW1

Life inside a WW2 KV-1 Tank (Cross section)

The 5 Largest Armies in the World

WWII Tanks: Sherman Tank

What Killed more People than WWI in 1918?

FP-45 Liberator (Throw away pistol)

What do Soldiers Eat

Most Fearsome Warriors in History

Medieval Punishments

The President who avoided being eaten by cannibals in WWII

The F-35 Jet - NATO's Super Weapon

Miserable History of Medicine

U-2 Incident (1960)

The Dentist who Fought an Entire BANZAI Charge Single-handedly (1 Man vs 98)

De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)

Fishing Boat VS N.Korean Submarine (South Korea 1998)

The 6 Year Old Red Army Lieutenant of WW2 (Youngest Soldier of the War)

Strange Features found on Tanks

Why YOU Wouldn't want to be the 10th Roman soldier!

How a Lone US Sub Destroyed Japan's Most Important Ship in WW2

The Iranian Embassy Siege (1980) Day 6 - The Assault

Obese Soldiers in War

How did an Entire Battalion Vanish into Thin Air? (World War I)

King Leopold II & the Congo Free State (1885-1908)

Worst MREs - Meals Rejected by Everyone

Bro does Beer Run for his Buddies in Vietnam War

Strange Deaths in History (20th Century)

Who were the Richest Tycoons in America?

Thumbscrews (Horrible Punishments in History)

Unique uses for Guns

Helmet Graffiti in the Vietnam War

Soldier's Mental Health After the War is Over

Punishments in the Congo Free State under Leopold II

The Forgotten Stalingrad of Asia (WWII)

Scottish Black Watch (World War I)

How to survive the Wild West (1800s)

Shameless Copycat Guns in History

The Falklands War (1982)

The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36)

Who ruled Germany before Hitler? Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

Gross Jobs in History you're glad you don't have to do

The Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

The Paratrooper who fought with an Umbrella and a Bowler Hat

The Roman Legionaries (Elite Heavy Infantryman)

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius Pompeii DISASTER (79 A.D.)

Nazi Rudolf Hess’s Mad Mission for Peace (Strange Stories of WWII)

A Commando Revenge Mission, in Disguise as Women

How clean were Medieval people?

Weird Weapons of the Vietnam War

Weird laws in History

Soldier who Defeated 32 Germans WITHOUT Bullets - Harlem Hell-fighters WW1

Press Gangs (Impressment)

An Interview with Napoleon - Documentary

Life Inside a WWI A7V Tank (Cross Section)

The Rules of war ALL Soldiers MUST OBEY

UNSTOPPABLE Chinese Soldier who Blocked a Machine Gun with his Body - Korean War

M1 Garand Rifle

The Rocket Launcher Scooter (Weird Tech)

The Most Terrifying Sounds in War

Hull-Down Position (Military Tactic)

Impossible Prison Escapes

Bizarre and Mysterious: Deaths Throughout History

The REBELLION that Destroyed Soviet Russia

Spetsnaz (Soviet Afghanistan war)

Last Ditch Axis Weapons

Creeping Barrage (Military Tactic)

When a US Marine Survived a LIVE RPG in his Leg

The 'Most Violent Prisoner in Britain'

Why were Korean Soldiers so Feared in the Vietnam War ?

Why were soldiers wearing American Revolutionary Uniforms in the American Civil War?

M1 Abrams Main battle tank

Where does Halloween come from?

What was inside this tunnel, that killed 520 passengers?

WWII Factions: The British Army

Churchill's Plan to Start World War 3 Using German Troops

Teenage Marine Jumps on 2 Grenades to save his Squad

The German Officer who Died Saving the Enemy (WWII)

Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

This U.S. Pilot shot Down an American plane and got the Kill, Why?

The Truth of the Salem Witch Trials

The Pilot who strapped Bazookas to his Plane (World War II)

1 Million Subscribers Celebration

English Longbowman (Medieval Archer)

The Angels of Mons (WWI Legend)

Boy Soldiers (World War I)

The Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler (1918)

Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)

The Great Plague of London (1665-66)

Carrier Pigeons (World War I)

Attack of the Dead Men (Strange Stories)

This Type of Bullet Caused an Entire Uprising!

The Soldier who threw himself onto a grenade (Heroic sacrifice)

Brutal Moments of the Vietnam War

Censorship in Nazi Germany

ME 262 Jet Fighter

The Unbelievable Lives of North Korea's Dictators

The B-21, America's Ultimate WW3 Deterrent

SPP-1 Underwater Pistol (Cold War Tech)

Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade (1095)

The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852)

Strange Famous Deaths in History

The Georgians (Weird Fashion)

The French Resistance (World War II)

Simo Häyhä 'The White Death' (World’s Deadliest Sniper)

Infantry Weapons of WWI

Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1

The MIAS Mini Tank (Strangest Tanks in History)

Gun Loadouts used by the Worlds most Elite Units

How did people try to ‘cure’ the Plague? (Flagellants)

Hitler’s Personal Train: The Führersonderzug

The Actress kidnapped by Kim Jong il and forced to make movies (Strange Stories)

Mutually Assured Destruction (Cold War -)

The Dead Gunslinger Corpse used as a Movie Prop

The Jewish Teenager who hid in the German Army (Strange Stories of WWII)

WWII Factions: The Red Army

WWII Factions: The Italian Army

These Soldiers wore Bicorn hats in World War II

Military Copycats who stole ideas from other countries

The British POW who returned to a German prison (Strange Stories)

Savage Stanley of the Cruel Congo, Hero or zero?

Jobs in History Series #1

Weird Tanks in History

Sniper Shields (World War I)

WW2 Japanese Pilot vs 182 Hawaiian Islanders

Ridiculously Overpowered Weapons in History

[Censored Version] Iban Headhunters (Malay Crisis, 1948-60)

WWI Tanks: A7V Tank

Senegalese Tirailleurs (World War II)

Janissary (Elite Ottoman Infantry Unit)

Puritans (The Killjoys of History)

The Fighter Ace who Downed 11 planes in a Single Day

Italian Infantry Weapons of WWII

Soldier who Overdosed on Meth in Combat (Strange Stories of World War II)

Forbidden Actions that are Illegal in War

Who is Putin?

When Stalin Starved 4 Million Ukrainians

Strange Soldier Superstitions

Cursed Guns in History

7.5 cm Pak 40 Anti-tank gun (World War II)

British Stereotypes of World War II ☕

The Corinthian Helmet (Ancient Greece)

Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machines

Erwin Rommel - The Desert Fox

Helmets in History

Deadly Teachers in History

Who Would Have Replaced an Assassinated Hitler in 1943?

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

The Yakuza - Mafia of Japan

Overpowered Guns used to Cheat in Battle

Mao's Little Red Book

The Secret Life under Kim Jong-il's North Korea

How do Soldiers Stay Clean in Battle?

Life Inside a WW2 Panther Tank (Cross Section)

Chimney Sweep / Climbing Boy (Worst Jobs in History)

Strange Military Deaths

The Grey Ghost of WW2 - USS Enterprise