What are some good /his/ approved Youtube channels?
Adam Curtis' Century of Self and Bitter Lake
Crash Course history is pretty good, watched it in school once
I'm just gonna namedrop a few of my subscriptions:
>Historia Civilis
>Reply History
>The Great War
>Epic History TV
>Real Crusades History
>GREAT MILITARY BATTLES
>Metatron
>Forgotten Weapons
Favorite out of these is Historia Civilis, i love his format with classical music + those animations, and the length of the videos is optimal. Metatron is a bit too ranty. "GREAT" channel is basically reposting some documentaries in AWFUL quality, not the best documentaries but interesting enough.
>>1163292
Thanks for the rec on Historia Civilis, I've never seen them before in these threads.
Can anyone confirm the legitimacy of Cynic Historian. I can't tell if he's talking out of his ass or not
>>1163292
Thanks
>>1163269
well it has strong bias.
>>1166532
reality has a liberal bias, son. There is no conspiracy, you're just stupid
British Pathé
>>1163200
jabzy
>>1163269
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>>1166614
This is the correct annswer
>>1166532
>well it has strong bias.
Sadly, the more popular history-related youtube channels will usually have strong biases (unless they're fueled by 100% nerd autism). On the left hand you have Crash Course who injects a lot of his progressive outlook into his videos, usually taking the form of opinionated jabs at historical events or figures or else as clear favoritism and focus on one particular side or event over another. On the right hand you have Real Crusades History who does the same, but with an alt right pro-Crusader outlook.
It probably has to do with the amount of work a video usually takes to make. I'm sure there's tons of people out there who could make great /his/ videos - some may even be lurking here - but they may not have the passion that comes with being highly opinionated and biased.
Extra Credits' Extra History segments are pretty well done.
>>1163200
Metatron is solid and looks very informed. Also it doesn't seem like he has any kind of political bias.
Caspian Report is a bit more controversial and mostly dedicates his attention to modern geopolitics, but it's a solid channel.
Real Crusades History is basically an anon butthurt about liberals hating on the crusaders, but has the great advantage of exhaustively citing his sources. Would recommend.
Read books about your favourite period instead of listening to some asshole prattle on retardedly.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4R4OAJXEwnNOE28P8ophw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq1dvO44aNovUUy0SiSDOQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf77x3CNbbhdFBOTmFGLqtg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0Bl1X6Fnt2vKr-XUGS4WA
History Buff
This guy watches movies/series set in history and reviews what in said movie is actually accurate and what's not.
Zulu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VygWpmwBO8M
Lawrence of Arabia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9scZDbKxtY
Alexander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzHQuAz0N60
>>1163269
>>1163324
>>1167469
These are ACTUALLY for children. They talk down to the audience, skip or simplify details to the point of falsehood to keep the attention of their audience because they assume a stupidity on the audience behalf or lack the ability to make reality interesting.
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>>1163292
These are excellent but Beige is NOT entirely a teacher in the subject he addresses, it's important to be aware that he is often PROPOSING ideas on historical gray areas, not reiterating established knowledge. Of course he also says a lot of things that are just true and it's all interesting.
Also a common misconception is that he's a hobbyist, he does have a degree.
I don't know all the channels from the other post, but Historia Civilis is my favorite history channel
>>1163200
Over time I unsubscribed to most history channels on Youtube. They were great when I was still a Wikipedia trawler who wanted something visual for topics I had little knowledge on, but eventually that's all they were: Wiki articles with visuals and even less depth.
And that's just for the good channels. The bad ones were those channels that liked to go off-script from their basic dates and events and start soap-boxing their personal opinions. It's almost always an exercise in total amateurism and personal biases.
These days I just subscribe to a few universities that bother hosting lectures by resident or visiting historians like UChicago:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UChicago/
But sadly there's not very many of them that are prolific, and most that do upload consistently are heavily about modern politics and sociology instead of straight history, such as the DU Center for Middle Eastern Studies:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5N7dcreEe65T4hB8xT4SvA
However, there's a handful of younger PhD students and professors who are starting to get into YouTube and social media in general. Most are just Twitter geeks who tweet various articles they hear about, though. One guy I recently subscribed to is Ryan Reeves, a professor of historical theology:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrI5U0R293u9uveijefKyAA/
Finally there's always the random video of a historian doing some lecture or presentation, but those are hard to find in one channel and you only encounter them if you specifically search for their name and hope for the best.
I have been trying to figure out a way to make some historical videos on subjects that interest me but also keep it extremely short and in my style. It is surprisingly hard to do so because I hate it when things are not in depth but I also hate stuff that keeps going on and on.
>>1171795
Keep the subject to something that can be covered in detail and a short amount of time and don't be afraid of splitting something into multiple videos. Think philosophy without gaps podcast
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