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The Shah's dying prophecy came true | THE SHAH WAS RIGHT — Part 1
Arafat died a prisoner — the machine he built outlived him | ARAFAT AND THE AYATOLLAH Part 4 of 4
Iran's revolution called Arafat "a traitor and a fool" | ARAFAT AND THE AYATOLLAH Part 3 of 4
Iran gave Arafat Israel's embassy — then the alliance cracked | ARAFAT AND THE AYATOLLAH Part 2 of 4
Arafat trained the revolution that discarded him | ARAFAT AND THE AYATOLLAH Part 1 of 4
AI is coming for your job In 1811, they smashed the machines | MACHINE RAGE Part 1 — The Luddites
Maradona — the Hand of God and the Goal of the Century
Britain Gave Faisal the Throne of Iraq — His Dynasty Was Killed in 1958 | THE KING BRITAIN MADE Part
Faisal Was Crowned King of Syria — Then France Erased It | THE KING BRITAIN MADE Part 2 of 3
Britain Promised Faisal a Kingdom — Then Carved It Up | THE KING BRITAIN MADE Part 1 of 3
Starmer Resigned The Last Time This Happened, Britain Got Churchill
Is this the end of Hezbollah? — WHO IS HEZBOLLAH Part 5 of 5
How Hezbollah lost a 40 year war in 8 weeks — WHO IS HEZBOLLAH Part 4 of 5
How Hezbollah became the master of Lebanon — WHO IS HEZBOLLAH Part 3 of 5
The truck bomb that drove America out of Lebanon — WHO IS HEZBOLLAH Part 2 of 5
How Iran forged Hezbollah from a real grievance — WHO IS HEZBOLLAH Part 1 of 5
Trump Signed the Iran Deal at Versailles — The Same Palace as 1919
Bernie Sanders Wants to Seize Half of AI — Henry Ford Found a Better Way — THEY HATED HIM TOO Part 5
The Man Who Was a One Man Federal Reserve — THEY HATED HIM TOO Part 4 J P Morgan
The Hated Bankers Who Paid for the Renaissance — THEY HATED HIM TOO Part 3 The Medici
Gates, Buffett, and the Man Who Invented Giving It All Away — THEY HATED HIM TOO Part 2 Carnegie
Elon Musk and the Man America Hated First — THEY HATED HIM TOO Part 1 Rockefeller
Iran Walks Into America at War — The White Roses of 1998
Suez 1956 — Nasser's Codeword That Seized the Canal
How SEAL Team Six ended the ten year hunt for bin Laden — Abbottabad, 2011 — RAIDERS Part 5 of 5
How America's worst desert disaster built its secret army — 1980 — RAIDERS Part 4 of 5
How Israel rescued 100 hostages 2,500 miles away — Entebbe, 1976 — RAIDERS Part 3 of 5
How Mossad snatched Adolf Eichmann from Argentina — RAIDERS Part 2 of 5
How Nazi commandos snatched Mussolini off a mountain — RAIDERS Part 1 of 5
How Britain partitioned Ireland in a single night | BORDERS BRITAIN DREW Part 4 of 4
How two men carved up the Middle East with a ruler | BORDERS BRITAIN DREW Part 3 of 4
Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Khamenei — Four Men Who Defied America
How Britain promised one country to two peoples in 67 words | BORDERS BRITAIN DREW Part 2 of 4
How a British barrister divided 390 million people in five weeks | BORDERS BRITAIN DREW Part 1 of 4
THE LAST SHAH — Part 8 — The Aftermath 1979–2026
THE LAST SHAH — Part 7 — The Fall 1976–1979
THE LAST SHAH — Part 6 — The Great Civilization 1971–1976
THE LAST SHAH — Part 5 — The Coronation 1963–1971
THE LAST SHAH — Part 4 — The Modernizer 1953–1963
THE LAST SHAH — Part 3: The Crown and the Coup (1952–1953)
THE LAST SHAH — Part 2: Oil and Power (1941–1952)
THE LAST SHAH — Part 1: The Beginning (1919–1941)
The Taming | Nuclear Nine — Part 8 of 8 FINALE
The Strikes | Nuclear Nine — Part 7 of 8
The Surrender | Nuclear Nine — Part 6 of 8
The Shadow | Nuclear Nine — Part 5 of 8
The Chain | Nuclear Nine — Part 4 of 8
The Patron Break | Nuclear Nine — Part 3 of 8
The Monopoly Breaks | Nuclear Nine — Part 2 of 8
The First Bomb | Nuclear Nine — Part 1 of 8
Five of the world's seven chokepoints are contested at once | THE GATES OF THE WORLD Part 4 of 4
Nasser took the Suez Canal back in one speech — and ended the British Empire | THE GATES OF THE WORL
THE GATES OF THE WORLD (PART 2 OF 4)
THE GATES OF THE WORLD (PART 1 OF 4)
FOUR DICTATORS — Part 4: Khamenei, The Last to Fall (SERIES FINALE)
FOUR DICTATORS — Part 3: Assad, The Man Who Chose to Fight
FOUR DICTATORS — Part 2: Gaddafi, The Man Who Bet Wrong
FOUR DICTATORS — Part 1: Saddam Hussein (The First to Fall)
Lincoln rewrote America in 272 words at Gettysburg | AMERICA AT 250 Part 3 of 8
How Jefferson doubled America with a check (and what it cost) | AMERICA AT 250 Part 2 of 8
How 8 farmers started America — Lexington, April 19, 1775 | AMERICA AT 250 Part 1 of 8
Every Revolution Eats Its Own — Paris 1794, Moscow 1937, Tehran 1979
Who Is the IRGC? The 47-Year Story of Iran's Shadow Army
For the first time in 50 years, America was the one asking | Part 4 of 4
How one fake stomach flu changed everything between the US and China | Part 3 of 4
How the US and China went from allies to killing each other in 8 years | Part 2 of 4 #history
The China-America Bargain - Part 1
WHO IS THE IRGC PART 4 of 4 #history #iran #geopolitics
WHO IS THE IRGC? - PART 3 OF 4 #iran #history
WHO IS THE IRGC ? - PART 2 of 4
WHO IS THE IRGC? - Part 1 of 4 #history #facts #historyfacts
Every Revolution Eats Its Own — Part 3: Paris, 1794 (FINALE) #history
Every Revolution Eats Its Own — Part 2: Moscow, 1937
Every Revolution Eats Its Own — Part 1: Tehran, 1979
The First Televised US Presidential Debate #historyfun #historychallenge #explorehistory
#europeanhistory #history #educational #facts #didyouknow
The Event that Changed the Course of Western Civilization
The Spark of the French Revolution
The Terracotta Army
The Great Wall
The Cradle of Law
The Great Pyramid's Pharaoh