Best YouTube videos on Modern History & The World
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
Hitler's Reich — Diaries of supporters, opponents and victims (1/4)
Drawing on private diaries of supporters, opponents, and victims, this rebuilds life inside Nazi Germany from the ground up. Part one traces how an ordinary society slid into dictatorship. (Published 7 May 2025)
The Spanish Civil War (1/2) | ARTE.tv Documentary
ARTE's account of the Spanish Civil War: how a divided Spain descended into a brutal 1930s conflict that became a rehearsal for the Second World War and a cause that drew in the world. (Published 13 Dec 2025)
My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 - Episode 1
Broadcaster Anita Rani traces her own family's story through the 1947 Partition of India, when independence split the subcontinent and uprooted millions in one of the largest and most traumatic migrations in history. (Published 11 Jan 2019)
Letters of Love, Letters of War: Algeria’s war for independence | Al Jazeera World Documentary
Through letters home, this film tells the human story of Algeria's brutal war of independence from France, one of the defining struggles of the age of decolonisation. (Published 28 Jun 2024)