# Captivating History: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, Captivating History has 505,000 subscribers, 73,600,671 total views, and 741 videos. It ranks #151,629 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Captivating History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Captivating History is “The Knights Hospitaller: The Forgotten Crusader Order”, a long-form video published Oct 16, 2026.
- These are Captivating History’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Dec 26, 2025 and Oct 16, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 2,404. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Mongol Invasions of Europe: Why They Suddenly Stopped” (22,999 views, Sep 18, 2026). Least viewed: “The Ghost Army of WWII: The Greatest Deception” (831 views, Jul 8, 2026).
- Median length: 14:00 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Captivating History’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 28 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 19, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Knights Hospitaller: The Forgotten Crusader Order](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/oLVdEkO1pM8/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 2,351 | 14:10 | 1.25x |
| [The Real Macbeth: The King Behind the Shakespearean Myth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/BF_7x5FPKzQ/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 2,456 | 12:07 | - |
| [The Madness of King George: Britain’s Strange Monarch](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/XudKiHSmbh8/) | 2026-10-03 | Long-form | 3,215 | 12:35 | 1.23x |
| [The Real Cleopatra: Egypt’s Last Pharaoh Revealed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/u2EPKrXAv-s/) | 2026-09-26 | Long-form | 2,957 | 12:21 | 1.43x |
| [The Mongol Invasions of Europe: Why They Suddenly Stopped](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/hnNQOlZ44Nc/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 22,999 | 12:55 | 14.8x |
| [The Teutonic Knights: The Monks Who Conquered the Baltic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/QiGQEh_9KH8/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 4,804 | 15:20 | 3.13x |
| [The City of Teotihuacan: Who Built Mexico’s Ancient Mystery?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/_ZBuUkQpxSo/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 2,965 | 12:58 | 1.94x |
| [The Cursed Tombs of Egypt: Myth vs Reality](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/yhHjhK8Z1JM/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 2,744 | 14:00 | 1.8x |
| [The Battle of Cannae: Rome’s Worst Defeat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/n9KhEhuyWiE/) | 2026-08-25 | Long-form | 1,358 | 13:55 | 1.09x |
| [The Varangian Guard: Vikings Who Became Bodyguards to Emperors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/7Jd5dl2HrK4/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 1,501 | 12:27 | 1.14x |
| [The Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Greece’s Computer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/DhRH7nQpRPU/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 1,256 | 14:31 | - |
| [The Samurai vs Mongols: When Japan Faced Invasion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/2Dnf03XWkEk/) | 2026-07-30 | Long-form | 850 | 11:42 | - |
| [Göbekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple That Shouldn’t Exist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/vN2qdInpkg4/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 1,557 | 12:23 | - |
| [Why Did Japan Close Its Borders for 200 Years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/b-A8NuVzoT8/) | 2026-07-15 | Long-form | 1,708 | 14:35 | - |
| [The Ghost Army of WWII: The Greatest Deception](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/mC7hlq8lbgI/) | 2026-07-08 | Long-form | 831 | 11:52 | - |
| [The Hussite Wars: Peasants Who Defied the Pope](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/CiSrXOc9AG0/) | 2026-07-01 | Long-form | 1,082 | 14:33 | - |
| [The Olmecs: The Mysterious Mother Culture of Mesoamerica](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/6C3qTao5kHU/) | 2026-06-24 | Long-form | 1,609 | 11:40 | - |
| [The Siege of Constantinople: Cannons That Changed the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/-RNeT2VCN0I/) | 2026-06-17 | Long-form | 888 | 12:49 | - |
| [The Real Trojan Horse: Clever Trick or Pure Legend?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/5oSnyoVS_GY/) | 2026-06-10 | Long-form | 939 | 13:27 | - |
| [250 Years of Captivating American History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/jpi1guszoxM/) | 2026-06-09 | Long-form | 2,726 | 35:31 | 1.38x |
| [How Did Yugoslavia Collapse? Explained in 12 Minutes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/UOeRNPN-508/) | 2026-06-03 | Long-form | 2,914 | 13:44 | 1.1x |
| [Xerxes the Great: The Man Who Tried to Conquer Greece](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/LvY9EhzAPIY/) | 2026-05-06 | Long-form | 4,176 | 15:22 | 2x |
| [The Silk Road of the Sea: Pirates, Spices and Empires](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/i8vC83tMAIY/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 1,571 | 15:01 | - |
| [The Real Amazon Warriors: Women Who Fought Like Men](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/cgrLX111g-E/) | 2026-04-22 | Long-form | 2,572 | 11:54 | - |
| [The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt: Did Herodotus Tell the Truth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/y7Q51jO5_is/) | 2026-04-15 | Long-form | 1,561 | 17:26 | - |
| [10 Forgotten Civilizations You’ve Never Heard Of](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/Dh_rljAD1CQ/) | 2026-04-08 | Long-form | 2,724 | 13:09 | 1.52x |
| [The Plague of Justinian: The Pandemic that Nearly Ended Rome](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/fAsTKwyYgiE/) | 2026-04-01 | Long-form | 1,780 | 15:55 | - |
| [The Tower of Babel: Myth or Real Megastructure?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/pA6IqSt7ERc/) | 2026-03-25 | Long-form | 3,290 | 14:54 | 1.66x |
| [The Children's Crusade: History's Strangest March](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/6EmhdGAODSk/) | 2026-03-18 | Long-form | 1,947 | 14:01 | - |
| [The Curse of the Roman Ninth Legion: Vanished Without a Trace](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/YpofQWj22ms/) | 2026-03-11 | Long-form | 2,048 | 16:07 | 1.05x |
| [The Great Fire of Rome: Did Nero Really Fiddle?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/HxSOVxF81GI/) | 2026-03-04 | Long-form | 1,567 | 14:37 | - |
| [The Disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization: What Really Happened?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/X0DsBaGKdk0/) | 2026-02-25 | Long-form | 1,720 | 13:42 | - |
| [The Fall of the Qing Dynasty: China’s Last Empire](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/HiHKFYixGf0/) | 2026-02-18 | Long-form | 5,429 | 16:09 | - |
| [The Great Bronze Age Collapse: 12 Civilizations Vanished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/X-LmwsWFbfA/) | 2026-02-11 | Long-form | 2,140 | 14:12 | 1.14x |
| [The Real Story of the Berlin Wall Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/BE8ZpJJCnn4/) | 2026-01-26 | Long-form | 3,572 | 12:56 | - |
| [What if the Ottoman Empire Never Collapsed?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/2H0dyurjSKg/) | 2026-01-23 | Long-form | 2,105 | 15:07 | 1.55x |
| [Why Is Alaska Part of the United States History?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/nvxIknxWfyU/) | 2026-01-21 | Long-form | 1,664 | 13:33 | - |
| [Who Were the Sea Peoples: Mysterious Invaders Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/5MPNThrv3wU/) | 2026-01-19 | Long-form | 2,696 | 12:04 | - |
| [Was Atlantis Real? Myth, Evidence, and What’s Possible](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/ED4zBQLW3IM/) | 2026-01-16 | Long-form | 2,465 | 14:28 | 1.66x |
| [The Real Reason World War 1 Started](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/0vZ9N9CsiqQ/) | 2026-01-14 | Long-form | 3,613 | 14:43 | 2.29x |
| [Norse Mythology Creation Story Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/kq8dIT9fDZ8/) | 2026-01-12 | Long-form | 1,992 | 14:35 | - |
| [Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia: Why It Failed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/2QDnux-o-dc/) | 2026-01-09 | Long-form | 2,852 | 13:27 | 1.96x |
| [The Lost Civilization: Beneath the Sahara](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/fkuMADmP57g/) | 2026-01-07 | Long-form | 1,663 | 14:36 | 1.21x |
| [How One Woman Sparked a War: The Story of Helen of Troy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/DLnOs0Uzbnc/) | 2026-01-05 | Long-form | 9,057 | 12:08 | 3.42x |
| [The Real Dracula: Vlad the Impaler’s True Story](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/CwJVYWKLvyc/) | 2026-01-02 | Long-form | 3,556 | 14:18 | - |
| [The Hundred Years’ War: How England and France Fought for a Century](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/nVRRq2dT24g/) | 2025-12-31 | Long-form | 3,646 | 14:16 | - |
| [The Partition of India: How a Subcontinent Was Torn Apart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/sg07kQZue7w/) | 2025-12-29 | Long-form | 2,582 | 15:10 | 2.31x |
| [Ancient Egypt's Book of the Dead Explained in 12 Minutes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@captivatinghistory/videos/mkkt3dNg7lY/) | 2025-12-26 | Long-form | 2,677 | 13:44 | 2.49x |

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