History - videos

Videographer Sneaks Into Chernobyl Reactor

Risking severe cancer to show you what the reactor looks like from the inside.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 6 days ago in Creepy

Remembering the First — and Last — Fully Underwater Slide

Every part of this is a crime.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 1 week ago in Wow

Remembering When They Tested Drunk Driving Limits by Getting Drivers Drunk

Science used to be fun!

By Braden Bjella

Featured 1 week ago in Wow

Remembering the Most Incredible Sniper Shot of All Time

High risk, high reward.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 2 weeks ago in Wow

Remembering When a News Station Got Held Hostage and Forced at Gunpoint to Read an Alien Manifesto

In 1987, a man named Gary Stollman broke into a news station carrying what appeared to be a gun. His request? That his alien manifesto be read live on air.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 3 weeks ago in Wtf

Remembering When a TV Show Introduced a Hiroshima Survivor to the Guy Who Dropped the Bomb on Him

You know that guy that ruined your life and left you traumatized? Well, he’s here today!

By Braden Bjella

Featured 1 month ago in Wtf

Watch Kids in the 1970s Protest the Rising Cost of Ice Cream

It was a simpler time.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 1 month ago in Ftw

Here’s How People Reacted to ‘The Exorcist’ When It Came Out

It was a lot of fainting and leaving the theater.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 3 months ago in Wow

Remembering Mexico’s 'Emo vs. Punk' Brawl

It was teens with dyed hair and black skinny jeans vs. other teens with dyed hair and black skinny jeans.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 3 months ago in Wow

Remembering When They Had to Defrost Football Fields with Flamethrowers

We didn’t always have the whole “temperature control” thing figured out

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wow

This 1991 ‘Nintendo Therapy Session’ Shows Early Parental Fears About Video Game Addiction

They were even complaining about a lack of backwards compatibility back then!

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wow

Video Captures the Insanity That Was the 1998 Furby Craze

All this over a creepy, furry robot?

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wtf

Remembering the Most ‘Mission: Impossible’ Style Robbery of All Time

On September 23, 2009, a group of thieves landed on the roof of a cash depot with a stolen helicopter. From there, it only got crazier.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wow

Here’s What an Illegal Rave Looked Like in 1989

Back before “going to a rave” meant “filming the DJ with your phone.”

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wow

Watch a Bunch of Kids from the 1960s Predict What the Year 2000 Will Be Like

Sorry to say, but the reality is much lamer.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 4 months ago in Wow

Vintage Prank Show Has Men Facing Off Against Their Biggest Fear: A Female Pilot

It really was a different time.

By Braden Bjella

Featured 5 months ago in Funny

The Doomed Brazilian Priest Who Thought He Could Traverse the Atlantic With 1,000 Helium Balloons

At least the truck drivers got their rest stops.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 1 year ago in Wow

1943 Footage Shows Japanese War Planes Shot Down Over Santa Cruz Island

This footage likely comes from either the U.S.S. Hornet or U.S.S. Enterprise carriers, the former of which was sunk before the battle's conclusion.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 1 year ago in Wow

A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage Restored to Life

Time travel back to the roaring 20s for a beach vacation at seaside resorts around the world. 1920s fashion and flapper culture brought to life....

By Peter Pizagalli

Featured 1 year ago in Feels

'Nuts! That Goddamn Line': Film and TV Bloopers From Old Hollywood Are Pure Gold

Thanks to the YouTube channel World of History, we now get a glimpse into what it was like 'behind the scenes' of old Hollywood films.

By zachnading

Featured 2 years ago

Just Stop Oil Protesters Tackled in Dinosaur Exhibit

Just Stop Oil protestors have struck again, this time at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum's Dippy the Diplodocus display in Coventry, England.

By zachnading

Featured 2 years ago in Facepalm

Another Tourist Beaten with a Stick after Climbing Sacred Mayan Pyramid

You'd think tourists would start to learn that it's not okay to climb the Chichen Itza Pyramid located in Yucatan, Mexico.

By zachnading

Featured 2 years ago in Ftw

1862 Mouse Traps Weren't Playing Around

They weren't playing games with pest control back in the day.

By Shape_Grifter

Featured 2 years ago in Wow

The Moment a Missile Hits a Shopping Center in Kremenchuk

Two videos show harrowing footage of what it's like to be in the proximity of a missile blast.

By mrlousyjeans

Featured 2 years ago in Wow

That Time a Badass Pilot Survived The Craziest Crash Caught on Camera

Commander George Duncan crashed while making a landing onto the US Navy Carrier Midway in 1951, creating a massive explosion. Miraculously,...

By Shape_Grifter

Featured 2 years ago in Ftw

History - videos

Videographer Sneaks Into Chernobyl Reactor

Remembering the First — and Last — Fully Underwater Slide

Remembering When They Tested Drunk Driving Limits by Getting Drivers Drunk

Remembering the Most Incredible Sniper Shot of All Time

Remembering When a News Station Got Held Hostage and Forced at Gunpoint to Read an Alien Manifesto

Remembering When a TV Show Introduced a Hiroshima Survivor to the Guy Who Dropped the Bomb on Him

Watch Kids in the 1970s Protest the Rising Cost of Ice Cream

Here’s How People Reacted to ‘The Exorcist’ When It Came Out

Remembering Mexico’s 'Emo vs. Punk' Brawl

Remembering When They Had to Defrost Football Fields with Flamethrowers

This 1991 ‘Nintendo Therapy Session’ Shows Early Parental Fears About Video Game Addiction

Video Captures the Insanity That Was the 1998 Furby Craze

Remembering the Most ‘Mission: Impossible’ Style Robbery of All Time

Here’s What an Illegal Rave Looked Like in 1989

Watch a Bunch of Kids from the 1960s Predict What the Year 2000 Will Be Like

Vintage Prank Show Has Men Facing Off Against Their Biggest Fear: A Female Pilot

The Doomed Brazilian Priest Who Thought He Could Traverse the Atlantic With 1,000 Helium Balloons

1943 Footage Shows Japanese War Planes Shot Down Over Santa Cruz Island

A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage Restored to Life

'Nuts! That Goddamn Line': Film and TV Bloopers From Old Hollywood Are Pure Gold

Just Stop Oil Protesters Tackled in Dinosaur Exhibit

Another Tourist Beaten with a Stick after Climbing Sacred Mayan Pyramid

1862 Mouse Traps Weren't Playing Around

The Moment a Missile Hits a Shopping Center in Kremenchuk

That Time a Badass Pilot Survived The Craziest Crash Caught on Camera

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