# Real Time History: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Real Time History has 764,000 subscribers, 128,606,837 total views, and 80 videos. It ranks #98,457 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Real Time History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/). 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 Real Time History is “Was Operation Barbarossa Doomed to Fail?”, a long-form video published Oct 16, 2026.
- These are Real Time History’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Mar 1, 2024 and Oct 16, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 1,014,256. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Desert Storm: The Gulf War 1990-1991 (Documentary)” (7,440,717 views, Sep 6, 2024). Least viewed: “Who Destroyed the Japanese Economy in WW2?” (92,164 views, Mar 20, 2026).
- Median length: 29:50 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Real Time History’s consecutive uploads were a median of 14 days apart (shortest gap 13 days, longest 77 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Was Operation Barbarossa Doomed to Fail?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/ctmCSHbzCZo/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 1,327,013 | 22:23 | 5.98x |
| [Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 (Full Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/saFtWuiQu9c/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 1,591,157 | 1:33:27 | 5.62x |
| [The Failed US Invasion of Canada 1812 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/a_x3hl12tq4/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 570,165 | 36:27 | 1.29x |
| [2001 Invasion of Afghanistan: Ousting the Taliban (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/TOMQf84HYeQ/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 965,807 | 39:18 | 2.48x |
| [The Most Confusing Battle of WW2? Operation Crusader 1941 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/k-kHtOriG1c/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 132,882 | 32:58 | - |
| [Rise of the Taliban: Afghan Civil War 1994-2000 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/ErXdZEPNdDM/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 312,049 | 29:20 | 0.8x |
| [The Battle of Fallujah and the Iraq War 2003-04 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/2beCzLtLegg/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 982,384 | 31:16 | 2.23x |
| [Japan's Downfall: Pacific War from Tarawa to Okinawa (Full WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/PjW5V9PmNdU/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 941,435 | 3:40:05 | 2.13x |
| [Rommel's Rampage - Battle for North Africa Spring 1941 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/b1De_z8ZYQE/) | 2026-06-05 | Long-form | 203,129 | 24:43 | - |
| [How China, Russia, Japan and the West Struggled Over East Asia 1894-1905 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/8J83KXdlDEU/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 149,539 | 1:25:02 | - |
| [Afghanistan's Downfall - Civil War 1989-1993 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/9LHauqlhC6U/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 293,809 | 23:39 | - |
| [What Caused the War of 1812? (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/PBLkMoqyoQU/) | 2026-04-17 | Long-form | 724,828 | 27:13 | 1.12x |
| [Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan 1986-1989 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/hRqvFjjlN38/) | 2026-04-03 | Long-form | 465,809 | 31:02 | 0.6x |
| [Who Destroyed the Japanese Economy in WW2?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/dlNYZYuaVbA/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 92,164 | 25:47 | - |
| [Invasion of Iraq 2003 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/JGXtMqPsROE/) | 2026-03-06 | Long-form | 1,337,076 | 31:39 | 1.15x |
| [Eight Great Powers Invade China: the Boxer Uprising 1900-1901 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/bkU3kae4mFw/) | 2026-02-20 | Long-form | 413,197 | 26:38 | - |
| [Why Argentina Lost the Falklands War (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/cp4l_evTgSA/) | 2026-02-06 | Long-form | 1,375,612 | 29:12 | 1.36x |
| [Red Army vs. Mujahedeen: Soviet-Afghan War Tactics 1980-85 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/ZN6kFuL0W_8/) | 2026-01-23 | Long-form | 989,565 | 32:41 | 0.97x |
| [What Happened During the Iranian Revolution 1979? (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/RvRQYMfkBfg/) | 2025-12-19 | Long-form | 979,839 | 21:56 | 0.97x |
| [The Bloody Start of Island Hopping in the Pacific: Tarawa 1943 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/nT2BY9Psbsc/) | 2025-12-05 | Long-form | 570,879 | 25:06 | 0.61x |
| [Why the US Invaded Iraq (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/UZtFl8PMR-A/) | 2025-11-21 | Long-form | 418,005 | 28:54 | 1.81x |
| [First Year of WW2 1939-1940 (Full Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/NApuFNz3VuE/) | 2025-11-08 | Long-form | 1,947,311 | 3:38:57 | 1.34x |
| [Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/RYdrPg6xdYo/) | 2025-10-24 | Long-form | 3,688,801 | 30:20 | 3.16x |
| [Battle of Manila 1945 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/TMcnIqgmAaw/) | 2025-10-03 | Long-form | 2,126,349 | 25:47 | 2.29x |
| [The Biggest Naval Battle in History: Leyte Gulf 1944 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/LA-sBbMopEM/) | 2025-09-05 | Long-form | 1,047,328 | 35:41 | 1.12x |
| [The 2nd Sino-Japanese War & Chinese Civil War 1927-1949 (Full Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/Pnk6QFnd_YM/) | 2025-08-22 | Long-form | 815,639 | 2:54:39 | 1.01x |
| [German-Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/7B1AkE6ePo8/) | 2025-08-08 | Long-form | 1,609,891 | 25:41 | 1.59x |
| [Battle of Peleliu 1944 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/3ywwfDzRDE8/) | 2025-07-18 | Long-form | 638,453 | 22:38 | 0.63x |
| [Battle for the Mediterranean 1940 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/lYNTv436100/) | 2025-07-04 | Long-form | 417,050 | 35:54 | 1.84x |
| [Arab Israeli War 1973 (Yom Kippur War Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/3GYI_nxnrj8/) | 2025-06-06 | Long-form | 2,216,631 | 28:57 | 1.65x |
| [The Mexican-American War 1846-48 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/louGkAYgDZc/) | 2025-05-16 | Long-form | 1,296,020 | 50:37 | 0.97x |
| [Rise of Japan: 1st Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/O5VCvyVgE5I/) | 2025-04-18 | Long-form | 651,255 | 24:57 | 1.9x |
| [Mussolini's Blunder: Greece and North Africa 1940 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/5GPxjvlF5X4/) | 2025-04-04 | Long-form | 807,477 | 26:08 | 0.58x |
| [The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/ZuAJ35F235Q/) | 2025-03-21 | Long-form | 3,487,865 | 41:05 | 2.53x |
| [Battle of Norway 1940 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/k_7OpM0KhzE/) | 2025-03-07 | Long-form | 473,547 | 23:06 | 2.55x |
| [The Chinese Civil War 1945-1949 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/7slhD9PmxII/) | 2025-02-21 | Long-form | 1,225,273 | 40:50 | 0.83x |
| [Downfall: The Battle of Berlin 1945 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/8oxUZCKzPT8/) | 2024-12-06 | Long-form | 3,675,823 | 23:08 | 2.09x |
| [Battle of Saipan 1944: Total War in the Pacific (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/Q4kQ8P7MpYM/) | 2024-11-15 | Long-form | 1,384,663 | 33:25 | 0.79x |
| [The Vietnam War 1955-1975 (Full Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/hSDAj550YQw/) | 2024-11-01 | Long-form | 5,629,263 | 2:42:30 | 2.37x |
| [Soviet Invasion of Finland: Winter War 1939-40 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/Dmb8lJjk9U8/) | 2024-10-18 | Long-form | 1,377,083 | 23:54 | 0.78x |
| [How the US Turned Iran Into a Dictatorship: The 1953 Coup (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/uqMsTsF0qgY/) | 2024-10-04 | Long-form | 1,031,706 | 19:01 | 0.44x |
| [Desert Storm: The Gulf War 1990-1991 (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/jS-g2JjQSJ4/) | 2024-09-06 | Long-form | 7,440,717 | 30:29 | 3.06x |
| [The Battle of Britain 1940 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/_Zbke_Saqds/) | 2024-08-02 | Long-form | 996,805 | 27:53 | - |
| [The Indochina War 1945-1954 (Full Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/JlirH5pq040/) | 2024-07-19 | Long-form | 1,563,356 | 57:51 | 0.67x |
| [Arab-Israeli War 1967 (Six-Day War Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/h7wiiKSYrv8/) | 2024-06-05 | Long-form | 1,950,318 | 22:56 | 0.84x |
| [The Korean War 1950-53 (4K Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/CoZexC7M4hM/) | 2024-05-17 | Long-form | 4,975,752 | 48:07 | 2.13x |
| [1943: Turning Point of WW2 in Europe (Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/F8mJvYnESbc/) | 2024-04-05 | Long-form | 2,960,191 | 2:00:58 | 1.44x |
| [The Battle of France 1940 (WW2 Documentary)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@realtimehistory/videos/n59SIJNaNao/) | 2024-03-01 | Long-form | 2,804,672 | 28:46 | - |

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