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A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.2/10. 174 seasons across 513 episodes so far, still running.
Synopsis
Videos of an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. The team creates short-form animated video essays every week about world history.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Seasons
| 1 | Rome: The Punic Wars | 4 ep2013 |
| 2 | World War I: The Seminal Tragedy | 4 ep2014 |
| 3 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai | 6 ep2014 |
| 4 | England: South Sea Bubble | 5 ep2015 |
| 5 | Zulu Empire | 4 ep2015 |
| 6 | Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora | 12 ep2015 |
| 7 | Europe: The First Crusade | 6 ep2015 |
| 8 | Korea: Admiral Yi | 5 ep2015 |
| 9 | Middle East: Odenathus | 2 ep2015 |
| 10 | England: The Broad Street Pump | 4 ep2015 |
| 11 | Mary Seacole | 2 ep2016 |
| 12 | World War II: The Battle of Kursk | 5 ep2016 |
| 13 | Suleiman the Magnificent | 6 ep2016 |
| 14 | WWII: The Resource War | 4 ep2016 |
| 15 | Early Christian Schisms | 4 ep2016 |
| 16 | The History of Writing | 2 ep2016 |
| 17 | Samuel HaNagid | 1 ep2016 |
| 18 | First Opium War | 4 ep2016 |
| 19 | Urbino | 1 ep2016 |
| 20 | Lindisfarne | 1 ep2016 |
| 21 | The Brothers Gracchi | 6 ep2016 |
| 22 | Hiawatha | 2 ep2016 |
| 23 | The History of Paper Money | 6 ep2016 |
| 24 | Veterans Day | 1 ep2016 |
| 25 | Simón Bolívar | 6 ep2016 |
| 26 | Catherine the Great | 6 ep2017 |
| 27 | Ned Kelly | 5 ep2017 |
| 28 | Mary Anning | 1 ep2017 |
| 29 | The Articles of Confederation | 4 ep2017 |
| 30 | Hunting the Bismarck | 4 ep2017 |
| 31 | Kamehameha the Great | 2 ep2017 |
| 32 | D-Day | 4 ep2017 |
| 33 | The Bronze Age Collapse | 4 ep2017 |
| 34 | Saragarhi | 1 ep2017 |
| 35 | Great Northern War | 5 ep2017 |
| 36 | The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire | 1 ep2017 |
| 37 | Otto von Bismarck | 6 ep2017 |
| 38 | Berlin Airlift | 1 ep2017 |
| 39 | Khosrau Anushirawan | 5 ep2017 |
| 40 | WW1 Christmas Truce | 2 ep2017 |
| 41 | Cheng I Sao | 1 ep2018 |
| 42 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 3 ep2018 |
| 43 | Genghis Khan | 6 ep2018 |
| 44 | The Danelaw | 2 ep2018 |
| 45 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | 1 ep2018 |
| 46 | The Empire of Mali | 5 ep2018 |
| 47 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry | 5 ep2018 |
| 48 | Thermopylae | 2 ep2018 |
| 49 | 1918 Flu Pandemic | 7 ep2018 |
| 50 | Pellagra | 1 ep2018 |
| 51 | Kingdom of Majapahit | 5 ep2018 |
| 52 | Battle of Saipan | 2 ep2018 |
| 53 | Quantum Computing | 6 ep2018 |
| 54 | Julie d'Aubigny | 1 ep2018 |
| 55 | Viking Expansion | 6 ep2018 |
| 56 | Defense of Poland | 2 ep2018 |
| 57 | Sun Yat-sen | 5 ep2018 |
| 58 | Tuberculosis | 2 ep2019 |
| 59 | Jane Austen | 1 ep2019 |
| 60 | Irish Potato Famine | 5 ep2019 |
| 61 | The Boston Massacre | 1 ep2019 |
| 62 | Siege of Vienna | 3 ep2019 |
| 63 | Queen Nzinga | 2 ep2018 |
| 64 | U.S. Civil War | 1 ep2019 |
| 65 | The Three Kingdoms | 2 ep2019 |
| 66 | History of England | 6 ep2019 |
| 67 | Joan of Arc | 5 ep2019 |
| 68 | The Warsaw Uprising | 1 ep2019 |
| 69 | Hogs in History | 1 ep2019 |
| 70 | The Inca Empire | 5 ep2019 |
| 71 | History of Dentistry | 2 ep2019 |
| 72 | Charles Darwin | 1 ep2019 |
| 73 | Building Angkor | 5 ep2019 |
| 74 | History of Space Travel | 6 ep2019 |
| 75 | The Berlin Wall | 1 ep2019 |
| 76 | Akhenaten | 1 ep2019 |
| 77 | Policing London | 5 ep2019 |
| 78 | History of Vaccines | 1 ep2019 |
| 79 | Allan Pinkerton | 1 ep2020 |
| 80 | The Haitian Revolution | 6 ep2020 |
| 81 | Ibn Battuta | 6 ep2020 |
| 82 | Rasputin | 1 ep2020 |
| 83 | The 1929 Stock Market Crash | 1 ep2020 |
| 84 | Dividing the Middle East | 5 ep2020 |
| 85 | The Field of the Cloth of Gold | 2 ep2020 |
| 86 | The Sacred Band | 1 ep2020 |
| 87 | Exploring the Pacific | 5 ep2020 |
| 88 | The Burning of Black Wall Street | 1 ep2020 |
| 89 | Marie Antoinette | 1 ep2020 |
| 90 | The Trojan War | 2 ep2020 |
| 91 | Rome & The Third Century Crisis | 5 ep2020 |
| 92 | Syphilis | 2 ep2020 |
| 93 | The Harlem Hellfighters | 1 ep2020 |
| 94 | Bartolomé de las Casas | 1 ep2020 |
| 95 | Cleopatra | 5 ep2020 |
| 96 | Voting in America | 1 ep2020 |
| 97 | The Beast of Gévaudan | 1 ep2020 |
| 98 | The Harlem Renaissance | 1 ep2020 |
| 99 | End of the Samurai | 5 ep2020 |
| 100 | The Polio Epidemic | 1 ep2020 |
| 101 | Francis Walsingham | 1 ep2020 |
| 102 | Saladin & the 3rd Crusade | 5 ep2021 |
| 103 | Black Boxing Heavyweights | 1 ep2021 |
| 104 | Redlining | 1 ep2021 |
| 105 | Crusader States Craziness | 1 ep2021 |
| 106 | Interstate Displacement | 1 ep2021 |
| 107 | Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster | 5 ep2021 |
| 108 | Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation | 1 ep2021 |
| 109 | The Assassination of Medgar Evers | 1 ep2021 |
| 110 | Jewish Pirates | 4 ep2021 |
| 111 | Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge | 1 ep2021 |
| 112 | Climbing the Matterhorn | 2 ep2021 |
| 113 | Thirty Years' War | 5 ep2021 |
| 114 | Negro League Baseball | 1 ep2021 |
| 115 | The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair | 1 ep2021 |
| 116 | Vlad the Impaler | 5 ep2021 |
| 117 | History of Coffee | 2 ep2021 |
| 118 | The Erfurt Latrine Disaster | 1 ep2021 |
| 119 | Grigori Rasputin | 4 ep2021 |
| 120 | Marcus Garvey | 1 ep2021 |
| 121 | The Great Emu War | 2 ep2021 |
| 122 | Conquest of India | 5 ep2021 |
| 123 | The Discovery of Insulin | 2 ep2021 |
| 124 | The Cotton Gin | 1 ep2021 |
| 125 | Japanese Militarism | 5 ep2021 |
| 126 | Götz of the Iron Hand | 1 ep2021 |
| 127 | The Zimmermann Telegram | 1 ep2022 |
| 128 | Empire of Brazil | 5 ep2022 |
| 129 | Maya Angelou | 1 ep |
| 130 | Mary Toft | 1 ep2022 |
| 131 | History of Beer | 5 ep2022 |
| 132 | Great Disappointment | 1 ep2022 |
| 133 | New England Vampire Panic | 1 ep2022 |
| 134 | Tulip Mania | 5 ep2022 |
| 135 | Carlisle Boarding School | 1 ep2022 |
| 136 | Billie Holiday vs The US Government | 1 ep2022 |
| 137 | Ethiopian Empire | 6 ep2022 |
| 138 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 4 ep2022 |
| 139 | Battle of Blair Mountain | 2 ep2022 |
| 140 | The Irish Easter Rising | 5 ep2022 |
| 141 | The Battle of Culloden | 1 ep2022 |
| 142 | The Path to Pearl Harbor | 6 ep2022 |
| 143 | Christmas Chaos at West Point | 1 ep2022 |
| 144 | Frederick the Great | 5 ep2023 |
| 145 | The Real Red Wedding | 1 ep2023 |
| 146 | Operation Avalanche | 2 ep2023 |
| 147 | John Brown | 5 ep2023 |
| 148 | The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime | 1 ep2023 |
| 149 | Napoleon in Egypt | 6 ep2023 |
| 150 | A Race to Ancient Secrets | 1 ep2023 |
| 151 | The Mass-Murdering Mongoose | 1 ep2023 |
| 152 | The Crimean War | 5 ep2023 |
| 153 | The Buddhist Expansion | 5 ep2023 |
| 154 | Henry Ford | 5 ep2023 |
| 155 | Ramesses the Great | 2 ep2023 |
| 156 | The Little Ice Age | 4 ep2023 |
| 157 | The Draft Riots of 1863 | 1 ep2023 |
| 158 | Shootout at the OK Corral | 2 ep2023 |
| 159 | The Dodo Bird | 1 ep2023 |
| 160 | The REAL War on Christmas | 1 ep2023 |
| 161 | Wu Zetian | 5 ep2023 |
| 162 | The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable | 1 ep2024 |
| 163 | Pigs | 1 ep2024 |
| 164 | Sitting Bull | 4 ep2024 |
| 165 | Jim Thorpe | 1 ep2024 |
| 166 | John L. Sullivan | 1 ep2024 |
| 167 | Secret Societies | 5 ep2024 |
| 168 | The Great Locomotive Chase | 1 ep2024 |
| 169 | Hypatia of Alexandria | 4 ep2024 |
| 170 | The Dark History of the Panama Railroad | 1 ep2024 |
| 171 | History of the Board Game | 1 ep2024 |
| 172 | Invasion of Quebec | 4 ep2024 |
| 173 | The Calendar's 10,000 Year History | 1 ep2024 |
| 174 | Benedict Arnold | 2 ep2024 |
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Themes
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