Animated YouTube series which explores major historical events and figures. Each episodes focuses on a different topic, although Kings and Generals has made several mini-series based on complex historical events like wars. The series often focuses on warfare and battles, in addition to topic like economic and social history. Different animators have worked on the show throughout its history.
Top 10 battle tactics of antiquity and medieval
Dunkirk visually explained - strategic overview
Napoleonic wars documentary series trailer
The last roman - ultimus romanorum
Star wars: battle of jakku
Kings and generals 2018 trailer
Armies and tactics: greek armies during the persian invasions
Armies and tactics: ancient greek navies
Armies and tactics: greek armies during the peloponessian wars
Armies and tactics: oblique order
Armies and tactics: ancient greek siege warfare
Armies and tactics: philip ii and macedonian phalanx
Armies and tactics: philip ii's cavalry and siegecraft
Military reforms of alexander the great
Crassus: how did he become so wealthy?
Alexander the great: logistics
Special forces of alexander the great
Armies and tactics: earliest roman armies
Love affair that made the hundred years' war inevitable
Armies and tactics: roman polybian legion and triplex acies
History of the samurai: outsiders to legends
Armies and tactics: roman legion against carthage and hannibal
Locusta - the poisoner of the roman emperors
Ancient greek state in afghanistan
Tragic love story of archduke franz ferdinand
Roman legion against macedonian phalanx
Gallic wars - caesar season 1 trailer
The greco-chinese war over the heavenly horses
Marian reforms and their military effects
Rome: from marius to caesar
Roman patronage system
The cold war
Game of thrones: aegon's conquest - last storm and field of fire
The cold war channel - release date announcement
Game of thrones: blackfyre rebellion - battle of the redgrass field
Game of thrones: war of the five kings - battles of green fork and whispering wood
Game of thrones: battle of the blackwater
Game of thrones: battle of winterfell
Is mulan historical?
2 million subscriber announcement
Byzantine – sasanian war of 602–628
Battle of kirchholm 1605 (poland vs. sweden)
Battle of yarmouk 636 (early muslim invasion)
Battle of las navas de tolosa (1212)
Battle of actium (31 bc) - final war of the roman republic
Battle of kadesh 1274 bc (egyptian - hittite war)
Battle of kosovo 1389 - serbian-ottoman wars
Battle of salamis 480 bc (persian invasion of greece)
Napoleonic wars: battle of marengo 1800
Battle of nicopolis 1396 hungarian crusade
Battle of dara 530 roman - sassanid iberian war
Two battles of panipat - 1526 and 1556
Battle of ankara 1402 ottoman - timurid war
Napoleonic wars: battle of trafalgar 1805
Battle of magnesia 190 bc roman - seleucid syrian war
Battle of ad decimum 533 roman - vandalic war
Napoleonic wars: battle of austerlitz 1805
Crisis of the third century of the roman empire
Napoleonic wars: battles of jena - auerstedt 1806
Hundred years' war: battle of crecy 1346
Battle of varna 1444 - ottoman civil war - crusade
Napoleonic wars: battle of eylau 1807
Battle of haldighati 1576 - mughal-rajput war
Battle of grunwald 1410 - northern crusades
Napoleonic wars: battle of friedland 1807
Siege of rome 537-538 - roman - gothic war
Battle of al-qadisiyyah 636 - muslim-sassanid war of 633-654
Battle of manzikert 1071 - byzantine - seljuq wars
Battle of hohenfriedberg 1745 - first and second silesian war
Mongols: rise of the empire - battle of yehuling 1211
Fall of constantinople 1453 - ottoman wars
Mongols: fall of khwarezm - battles of parwan and indus
Battle of talas 751 - abbasid - tang war
Battles of chaeronea (86 bc) and orchomenus (85 bc) mithridatic wars
Mongols: expedition of subutai and jebe - battle of kalka 1223
Battle of lipany - hussite wars 1419-1434 - european wars of religion
Mongols: western expansion - battles of legnica and mohi 1241
Vikings: great heathen army - battle of ashdown 871
Siege of constantinople 717-718 - arab-byzantine wars
Mongols: zenith of empire - siege of baghdad 1258 and battle of ain jalut 1260
Alexander's successors: first war of the diadochi 322–320 bc
Mongols: civil wars and conquest of china - battle of yamen 1279
Siege of belgrade 1456, battles of targoviste 1462 & otlukbeli 1473
Battle of sekigahara 1600 - sengoku jidai
Battles of cyzicus (73 bc) and tigranocerta (69 bc) - mithridatic wars
Vikings: battle of edington 878 - great heathen army
Rise of the incan empire
Battle of stalingrad 1942-1943 - world war ii
Diadochi wars: battles of paraitakene and gabiene 317–316 bc
Peak of the incan empire
Vikings: war for england - danelaw
Cimbrian war 113–101 bc - roman - germanic wars
Spanish conquest of the incan empire
Diadochi wars: battle of gaza 312 bc
Justinian's restoration: battles of taginae (552) and volturnus (554)
Great inca rebellion
Battle of kursk 1943 - world war ii
Battle of new orleans 1815 - war of 1812
Battle of the catalaunian plains 451 - aetius vs. attila
Rise of the maya
Diadochi wars: battle of salamis 306 bc
Battles of vaslui (1475) and valea alba (1476) - ottoman wars
Maya star war: tikal - calakmul war
Battle of tuyuti 1866 - war of the triple alliance
Battle of allia and sack of rome – rise of the republic
Why were alexander's body and tomb so important? (part i)
Napoleonic wars: battle of vimeiro (1808) - peninsular war
Diadochi wars: siege of rhodes 305-304 bc
What happened to alexander's tomb? (part ii)
Six-day war (1967) - third arab–israeli war
Why did the maya civilization collapse?
Ottoman wars: skanderbeg and albanian rebellion
Battle of pavia (1525) - italian wars
Battle of dhi qar (609) - arab - sassanid wars
Czechoslovak legion in russia and its war to return home
Battle of ipsus (301 bc) - wars of the diadochi
Aztecs: from refugees to hegemons
Napoleonic wars: siege of zaragoza (1808) - peninsular war
Ottoman wars: battles of otranto 1480 and chaldiran 1514
Aztecs: arrival of cortes and the conquistadors
Fall of tenochtitlan (1521) - spanish-aztec war
Why did the ottoman sultans kill their brothers?
Battle of shiloh (1862) - american civil war
Battle of towton 1461 - wars of the roses
Battles of barnet and tewkesbury 1471 - wars of the roses
Battle of königgrätz 1866 - austro-prussian war
Ottoman-mamluk war of 1516-1517
Battle of mobei 119 bc - han–xiongnu war
Battle of bosworth 1485 - wars of the roses
Russo-japanese war 1904-1905 - battle of tsushima
Caesar and gallic wars: battle of bibracte 58 bc
Last sassanids and the anti-caliphate alliance with tang
Milvian bridge 312 - rise of christianity
Ancient greek kingdom in india
Caesar vs ariovistus: battle of vosges 58 bc
Frederick iii - german emperor who could have stopped the world wars
Battles of bailen and tudela 1808 - napoleonic wars
An lushan rebellion - one of the bloodiest conflicts in history
Siege of rhodes 1522 - ottoman wars
Caesar vs belgae: battles of axona and sabis 57 bc
How the romans stole silk production secrets from china
Battle of guandu 200 - three kingdoms
Why were the iranian empires so successful?
Sack of constantinople 1204 - fourth crusade
Teutoburg forest 9 ad - roman-germanic wars
Battles of somosierra and corunna 1808-1809 - napoleonic wars
Battle of mohacs 1526 - ottoman wars
Yasuke: story of the african samurai in japan
Military reforms of augustus
Sejanus: almost the roman emperor
Pyrrhus: before rome
Rise of sumer: cradle of civilization
Falklands war 1982
Battle of heraclea 280 bc - pyrrhic wars
Why was egypt crucial for the roman empire?
Sun ce and establishment of eastern wu - three kingdoms
Idistaviso 16 ad - roman-germanic wars
Pyrrhus vs. romans and carthaginians
Caesar in britannia and germania
Ashoka the great - rise of the mauryan empire
Pyrrhus: against everyone
How roman trade with india made the empire rich
Siege of vienna 1529 - ottoman wars
Rise and fall of the akkadian empire
Red cliffs and jiangling 208 - three kingdoms
Roman armies and tactics: praetorians
Gergovia 52 bc - caesar's first defeat
Roman trade with africa
Preveza 1538 - ottoman wars
Emperor taizong and the rise of the tang dynasty
Siege of damascus 634 - arab - byzantine wars
Watling street 60 ad - boudica's revolt
Cyprus crisis 1974
Varangians - elite bodyguards of the byzantine emperors
Napoleonic wars - battle of eckmühl 1809
Nisibis 217 ad - roman–parthian war
Amorite kingdoms and the sumerian renaissance - ancient mesopotamia
Ottoman wars - battles of gorjani and castelnuovo 1537
Darius i and the greatest lie in history
Thirty years' war - white mountain 1620
Carrhae 53 bc - roman–parthian war
Alesia 52 bc - caesar's gallic wars
Tecumseh: the native american resistance
Gallipoli 1915 - the great war
Napoleonic wars - battle of aspern-essling 1809
Third crusade - the beginning
Thirty years' war - danish intervention 1626-1629
Rise of jin and the war of the eight princes
Mongols: invasions of japan 1274 and 1281
Roman slave rebellions: first servile war
Ottoman wars - siege of buda 1541 and eger 1552
Huns: the origin
Korean war 1950-1953 - drive south and battle of pusan
William adams: story of the english samurai in japan
First arab - israeli war 1948
Gustavus adolphus - breitenfeld 1631 - 30 years' war
Zheng he's floating city: when china dominated the oceans
Fall of acre 1191 - third crusade
Thomas cochrane: rise of britain's greatest sea captain
Great siege of malta 1565 - ottoman wars
Roman armies and tactics: roman siegecraft
Korean war 1950-1953 - battle of inchon 1950
Macedonian wars: first roman intervention in the hellenic affairs
Mongols: invasions of vietnam 1258-1288
Tecumseh and the prophet - battle of tippecanoe
Lützen 1632 - thirty years' war
White huns: rise and decline
Pliska 811 - byzantine - bulgarian wars
Arsuf 1191 - third crusade
Yom kippur war 1973 - sinai front
Before spartacus: second servile war against the roman republic
Cynoscephalae 197 bc - macedonian wars
Rise of babylon and hammurabi - ancient mesopotamia
Gokturk empire - nomadic civilizations
Mongol invasion of india - battle of kili 1299
Roman-indo-parthian trade
Rocroi 1643 - thirty years' war
Roman-chinese relations and contacts
Szigetvar 1566 - ottoman wars
Roman army during the crisis of the third century
Tecumseh and the war of 1812
Korean war 1950-1953 - chinese intervention 1950
Khazars: history of the jewish turkic nomads
Versinikia 813 - byzantine - bulgarian wars
Yom kippur war 1973 - golan heights front
Sertorius - anti-sulla rebellion in spain
Sentinum 295 bc - roman-samnite wars
Cochrane against napoleon: battle of the basque roads 1809
Roman castra - how legionaries built and lived in their fortresses
Mongol invasions - mamluk-ilkhanate wars
Malik ambar: african king in the heart of india
Suez crisis 1956 - cold war
Abritus 251 - crisis of the third century
Rise of the swiss warriors and mercenaries
How the korean war ended - cold war
Tordesillas - how the pope divided the world between spain and portugal
Roman imperial cavalry - armies and tactics
Jaffa 1192 - third crusade
Fall of famagusta 1571 - ottoman wars
Callinicus 171 bc - roman-macedonian wars
Battle of the bulge 1944 - ardennes counteroffensive
Gannibal - african son of peter the great of russia
Civitate 1053 - norman conquest of italy
Military reforms of diocletian - roman imperial army
Lepanto 1571 - ottoman wars
Great schism: the bitter rivalry between greek and latin christianity
Mongol invasions of hungary and poland
Swiss warrior: from italian and burgundian wars to papal guard
Pydna 168 bc - macedonian wars
Etruscans: italian civilization before ancient rome
Freiburg 1644 - thirty years' war
Spartacus rebellion - roman servile wars
Evolution of the roman centurion
Himera 480 bc - greco-carthaginian sicilian wars
Winter war 1939-1940 - the setup
Ancient macedonia before alexander the great and philip ii
Hashashins: origins of the order of assassins
Kulikovo 1380 - rus-mongol wars
Plassey 1757 - british conquest of india begins
Jankau 1645 - thirty years' war
How the norse became christian - christianization of scandinavia
Knights hospitaller: origins
Battle of cartagena de indias 1741 - anglo-spanish war
Origins of sicilian mafia
Battle of cerami 1063 - norman-muslim war for sicily
Jardine-matheson: how opium wars founded hong kong
Rise of timur - war against toqtamish
Diplomatic genius of philip of macedon
Winter war 1939-1940 - finland's desperate defense against the red army
Charles xii: swedish king and the ottoman refugee
Islamic golden age - philosophy and humanities
Did the foederati end the roman empire?
Imjin war - beginning of the japanese invasion of korea
Cem sultan: ottoman prince in the heart of europe
Battle of khalkhin gol 1939 - soviet-japanese war
Ancient origins of the chinese triads
Timur's invasion of india 1398
Caesar's great roman civil war - how it all started
Caesar's civil war: the war begins 49bc
Slavs and vikings: medieval russia and the origins of the kievan rus
Normans against romans - battle of dyrrhachium 1081
Coldstream guards - origin of the modern british army
Battle of nordlingen 1645 - thirty years' war
Mongol army: how it all started
Battle of greece 1940: mussolini attacks - world war ii
Cochrane: british outcast to south american hero
Battles of ilerda and massilia 49 bc - caesar's civil war
Ancient greek state politics and diplomacy
Norman sack of rome 1084 - norman conquests
Early rus conquests: viking princes in eastern rome
Imjin war - rise of admiral yi sun-sin - hansando 1592
Demosthenes: greatest enemy of philip of macedon
Real ghost of tsushima - mongol invasion of japan
Greco-italian war 1940: greece strikes back - world war 2
Why the ottomans never colonized america?
Battle of telamon 225 bc - roman–gallic wars documentary
Koxinga - the pirate king of china
Battles of utica and bagradas 49 bc - caesar's civil war
Aurelian: emperor who restored the world
Timur against bayezid - battle of ankara 1402
World in year 867 - crusader kings iii
Did the trojan war really happen?
Battle of greece - operation marita 1941 - germans attack
World in year 1066 - crusader kings iii
Battle of adrianople 378 - roman-gothic war
Structure of the mongol army
Siege of ctesiphon 637 - early muslim expansion
Nanman: the lost tribe of south china
Battle of zusmarshausen 1648 - thirty years' war
How the rus became christian - vladimir the great
Battle of crete 1941 - world war ii
Marcus aurelius - philosopher emperor: end of the roman golden age
Battle of dyrrhachium 48 bc - caesar against pompey
History of the american mafia
Winter war: finns and the red army fight in the arctic
How did the mongols conquer strongholds and cities?
Battle of diu 1538 - ottoman-portuguese war for india
Ghaznavids: from slaves to the rulers of central asia
Battle of panipat 1761 - durrani-maratha war
Spartacus and other slave rebellions in rome
Sohei: buddhist warrior monks of medieval japan
Fall of jerusalem and the battle of jalula 637 - early muslim expansion
Earliest chinese armies - armies and tactics
Golden age of the rus: christian empire in the east
Origin of the germanic tribes
Arminius: hero of germania, traitor to rome
Subutai - genghis's greatest general
Soviets surrounded - winter war
Basil ii - reformer, restorer, bulgarslayer
Viking colonization of england
Battles of fulford and stamford bridge 1066
Battle of hastings 1066 - norman conquest
Daily life in the danelaw
Emperor han wudi - ancient china's greatest conqueror
Crusader-mongol alliance
Why the thirty years' war was so devastating
How the mongols defeated their enemies
How rome conquered greece
Sicily: multicultural kingdom of normans, greeks and arabs
Tecumseh and the native american resistance (revisited)
Ottoman-portuguese war in africa - ethiopian–adal war
Alexander the great in quran and middle eastern myths
Did commodus end the golden age of rome?
Battle of pharsalus 48 bc - caesar's civil war
Winter war - how the red army finally defeated the finns
El cid: knight of the two worlds
Muslim conquest of egypt 640 - battles of babylon and heliopolis
Did a volcano end the mongol empire?
Destruction of kievan rus
Lens and prague 1648 - the end of the thirty years' war
When america invaded russia
Greek and barbarians - ancient civilizations
Ottoman-portuguese war for the indian ocean
Bosporan kingdom - longest surviving ancient greek state
Siege of alexandria 48 bc - caesar's civil war
Thomas cochrane: craziest sea captain in history
Fall of alexandria 641 - early muslim expansion
Islamic golden age: scientific method
Japanese invasion of korea - chinese counter-offensive
How rus survived mongols and crusaders - rise of novgorod
Battle of hong kong 1941
Bouvines 1214 - anglo-french war
Children's crusade: real story of the tragic event
Nubia - christian kingdoms in the heart of africa
How genghis khan supplied his army
Battle of the nile 47 bc
Seven wonders of the ancient world
Rise of the seljuk empire
Hitler's raiders in the pacific
What caused the american civil war?
Last stand of the sassanids - battle of nahavand 642
How the roman army became the byzantine army
Maccabean revolt - anti-hellenic rebellion in judea
Battle of crecy 1346 - hundred years' war
Mos maiorum: what led to the fall of the roman republic?
Byzantine empire strikes back - battle of nikiou 646
Yuezhi migration and kushan empire - nomads
How mongols integrated turks and chinese into their army
Claudius: reformer, conqueror of britain - roman emperors
Seminoles - native americans who never surrendered
Battle of greece and battle of crete
Battle of poitiers 1356 - hundred years' war
Noryang straits 1598 - end of the imjin war
Strategikon - army manual of the eastern roman empire
Turkification of anatolia - nomads
Caesar's pontic war: zela and veni vidi vici
Martyrdom of saint maurice and the theban legion
Winter war - soviet finnish 1939-1940 war
Caesar in africa - battle of ruspina 46 bc
Julian: rise of the last pagan emperor of rome
French resurgence - hundred years' war
Soviet invasion of afghanistan - operation storm-333
Muslim schism: how islam split into the sunni and shia branches
How charlemagne's empire fell
Thapsus 46 bc - caesar's most complicated campaign
Ancient origins of the celts - ancient civilizations
Fugger - banker who made the habsburgs hegemon of europe
Scythians - rise and fall of the original horselords
Memoirs of the samurai who survived two mongol invasions
Rise of the vandals: how the vandals took over the roman africa
What led to the sack of constantinople: fall of komnenos
536 ad - worst year in history
Rise of the neo-assyrian empire
Beginning of muslim africa - battle of sufetula 647
Mediterranean war: italian raids on alexandria and gibraltar
Ancient celtic armies: invasion of rome and greece
Battle of agincourt 1415 - hundred years' war
Berbers: ancient origins of north african civilization
Munda 45 bc - caesar's last campaign
Female samurais - armies and tactics
How julian became known as apostate
Battle of taranto 1940 - pearl harbor of the mediterranean
How athenian democracy was born
Cyrus the great - rise of the achaemenid empire
Battle of frigidus 394 - end of the pagan rome
Daily life of the mongols
Siege of orleans 1429 - joan of arc saves france
How rome conquered the ancient celts
Vandal kingdom in africa and the sack of rome in 455
How bronze age trade was conducted
Alaric's sack of rome - rise of the goths
Ainu - history of the indigenous people of japan
Sack of constantinople 1204 - fourth crusade
What was lost in the sack of constantinople of 1204?
Gunpowder technology of the mongol army
Early muslim expansion - arab conquest of iran and egypt
How the fall of rome transformed the mediterranean
How the german empire provoked ottoman jihad in wwi
Last stand of free celts: struggle against the roman empire
Battle of formigny 1450 - hundred years' war
How the ancient olympics were conducted
Battle of fornovo 1495 - italian wars
Medieval travel and pilgrimage
Berber empires: zirids, almoravids and almohads
Enclosure: how the english lost their lands
Sihang warehouse 1937 - chinese thermopylae
Rabban bar sauma: adventures of mongol marco polo
Ottoman-portuguese war - age of colonization
Evolution of the mongol army - armies and tactics
How genghis khan wanted to cheat death
Alexander the great's conquest - balkan campaign 335 bc
Was julius caesar a military tyrant or a saviour of rome?
Elite and levy units of the eastern roman army
Battle of adrianople 1205 - fourth crusade
Why and how the mongols became muslim
Byzantine reconquista - siege of chandax 960-961
Battle of narva 1700 - great northern war
Assassination of julius caesar: why and how
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