# IMPERIAL: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-28, IMPERIAL has 531,000 subscribers, 34,055,072 total views, and 30 videos. It ranks #143,973 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [IMPERIAL](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/). 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 IMPERIAL is “How Britain Defeated its Hitler”, a long-form video published Jul 6, 2026.
- These are IMPERIAL’s 30 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Nov 9, 2019 and Jul 6, 2026 (30 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 30 uploads: 732,996. 15 videos are above that median and 15 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Most Famous Killing in History” (5,169,161 views, Mar 9, 2026). Least viewed: “Why Ancient Communities Burned Their Houses” (30,181 views, Apr 23, 2022).
- Median length: 18:41 for 30 long-form videos.
- In this sample, IMPERIAL’s consecutive uploads were a median of 57 days apart (shortest gap 20 days, longest 377 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [How Britain Defeated its Hitler](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/ujj1sUW_kzA/) | 2026-07-06 | Long-form | 831,935 | 20:42 | 0.92x |
| [YouTube's AI Plagiarism Problem](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/Q2Ak8wX0AaQ/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 268,424 | 7:53 | - |
| [The Most Famous Killing in History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/Nz7BoIlLdAc/) | 2026-03-09 | Long-form | 5,169,161 | 17:53 | 5.22x |
| [The Genius Design of Communist Kiosks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/nh9gsXdC9Ak/) | 2025-10-28 | Long-form | 404,028 | 13:59 | - |
| [The Most Depressing Soviet Cities](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/cWjdKRtBisA/) | 2025-10-03 | Long-form | 721,980 | 24:30 | 0.58x |
| [The Evil Genius of Fascist Design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/tjrG7CT3vIg/) | 2025-07-28 | Long-form | 2,329,230 | 23:12 | 1.86x |
| [The Hunt for London's Most Wanted Gang](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/nct0199k7nI/) | 2025-05-21 | Long-form | 983,867 | 44:00 | 0.96x |
| [How America Hired the Mafia to Kill Castro](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/tKjzleZxCgQ/) | 2025-01-31 | Long-form | 414,125 | 18:27 | - |
| [The Greatest Escape in History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/5dseXhF8cCc/) | 2024-12-20 | Long-form | 2,727,326 | 18:36 | 2.14x |
| [How War Made the Cigarette](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/l4NJvUurvHE/) | 2024-08-31 | Long-form | 1,787,734 | 24:59 | 1.75x |
| [The Death of Europe's Mad King](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/JMIFsEdFiAg/) | 2024-06-21 | Long-form | 461,306 | 26:03 | - |
| [Why Swiss Money Looks Weird](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/PdW63lP-yI8/) | 2024-04-17 | Long-form | 996,571 | 17:44 | 0.98x |
| [The IRA's War on London](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/pcvWft-dAp4/) | 2024-02-25 | Long-form | 1,507,211 | 29:15 | 1.18x |
| [Europe's North Korea](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/o0_-Cgr-VzY/) | 2023-12-10 | Long-form | 4,592,141 | 21:56 | 5.1x |
| [America's Forgotten Atomic Town](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/16cbGmFB548/) | 2023-10-06 | Long-form | 744,012 | 26:04 | 1x |
| [Why Soviet Bus Stops Look Weird](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/Clt2qySZqfY/) | 2023-08-13 | Long-form | 1,045,635 | 13:26 | 1.65x |
| [How Terrorists Stole an Italian Cruise Ship](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/WlhCaVc7ftA/) | 2023-06-28 | Long-form | 2,596,936 | 25:16 | 5.74x |
| [How Paris Became a Nazi Resort](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/fTZW9Nezd88/) | 2023-05-11 | Long-form | 753,191 | 15:19 | 2.14x |
| [Turkey's Terrible Time with Earthquakes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/w8D-vmO9DjU/) | 2023-03-24 | Long-form | 315,258 | 17:09 | 1x |
| [The Largest Megaproject in History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/E96mQyxSxfk/) | 2023-02-05 | Long-form | 2,013,351 | 18:12 | 7.24x |
| [How a Dictatorship Shaped Iran's Protests](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/1cby_OiLxSs/) | 2022-12-01 | Long-form | 167,994 | 23:59 | 1x |
| [The Longest Hijacking in History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/Y2b2LVjUue4/) | 2022-10-05 | Long-form | 1,547,173 | 33:26 | - |
| [The Politics of Forgetting: The Franco Regime in Spain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/NHcXiZ5flnU/) | 2022-08-13 | Long-form | 388,406 | 22:16 | - |
| [How This Folder Took Over the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/SKtiYYKTniw/) | 2022-07-08 | Long-form | 64,779 | 7:20 | - |
| [The Sack of Rome 1527 - As it Happened](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/KIVB-4ffePA/) | 2022-06-15 | Long-form | 516,163 | 16:00 | - |
| [How Russian Democracy Failed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/mH60Fl0fsmk/) | 2022-05-18 | Long-form | 155,183 | 15:52 | - |
| [Why Ancient Communities Burned Their Houses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/elWGnJQbW2g/) | 2022-04-23 | Long-form | 30,181 | 3:30 | - |
| [The Cloaked Hand: American Interventionism in Chile](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/lLHsQIS58AA/) | 2021-04-28 | Long-form | 257,309 | 23:05 | - |
| [How Orbán Uses History to His Advantage](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/5UI4x0YSSlg/) | 2020-11-20 | Long-form | 69,635 | 17:34 | - |
| [Soyuz One: A Soviet Space Tragedy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@imperialyt/videos/uD9urmyypkg/) | 2019-11-09 | Long-form | 236,288 | 18:46 | - |

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