Drunk History
Judy Heumann Fights for People with Disabilities
Season 5 E 5 • 02/20/2018
Judy Heumann and her fellow activists begin the Section 504 sit-in, paving the way for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Drunk HistoryS5 E1
Rose Valland Takes On the Nazis
Tiffany Haddish tells the story of Rose Valland, an assistant curator in Paris who helped recover thousands of works of art taken by the Nazis during World War II.
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Clara Barton: The Angel of the Battlefield
Just when fate looked its bleakest for the Union soldiers fighting at the Battle of Antietam, along came an angel: Clara Barton.
01/23/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E2
Jack Parsons Loved His Sex Magick
Taran Killam plays Jack Parsons, a brilliant rocket scientist who found himself under the sway of occultists.
01/30/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E2
Rasputin's Journey to St. Petersburg
Once a lowly wanderer, Rasputin became a trusted confidant to Russia's Tsar Nicholas II and a frequent host of orgies.
01/30/2018
06:28
Drunk HistoryS5 E3
Nichelle Nichols Lives Boldly
When actress Nichelle Nichols wanted to quit playing Lieutenant Uhura on "Star Trek," real-life Trekkie Martin Luther King Jr. convinced her otherwise.
02/06/2018
01:09
Drunk HistoryS5 E3
The Story Behind the First Interracial Kiss on TV
Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner shared TV's first interracial kiss on "Star Trek," no thanks to the show's network executives.
02/06/2018
01:46
Drunk HistoryS5 E3
The Birth of Hip Hop
Questlove recounts how Jamaica-born Clive Campbell, a.k.a. DJ Kool Herc, invented hip hop in the early 1970s.
02/06/2018
02:55
Drunk HistoryS5 E4
How The Kinsey Scale Was Created
Alfred Kinsey (Josh Charles) and his wife Clara (Jillian Bell) conducted extensive research on human sexuality, and created a scale to chart it.
02/13/2018
06:43
Drunk HistoryS5 E4
Gloria Steinem Goes Undercover at the Playboy Club
In the 1960s, a young Gloria Steinem poses as a cocktail waitress at the Playboy Club to research an expose on its sexist work environment.
02/13/2018
03:08
Drunk HistoryS5 E5
Gwendolyn Sanders Leads the Birmingham Children's Crusade
Gwendolyn Sanders and hundreds of African-American children in Birmingham, Alabama, protest segregation at the height of the civil rights movement.
02/20/2018
07:55
Drunk HistoryS5 E5
Judy Heumann Fights for People with Disabilities
Judy Heumann and her fellow activists begin the Section 504 sit-in, paving the way for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
02/20/2018
05:43
Drunk HistoryS5 E6
Mr. Rogers's Beautiful Life
Fred Rogers creates the classic children's show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and helps stop budget cuts to public television proposed by Richard Nixon.
02/27/2018
04:05
Drunk HistoryS5 E6
Maya Lin Designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
College student Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, but faces backlash for the monument's lack of military symbolism.
02/27/2018
02:22
Drunk HistoryS5 E7
The High-Flying Adventure of D.B. Cooper
A man known as D.B. Cooper hijacks an airplane -- and gets away with it.
03/06/2018
02:28
Drunk HistoryS5 E7
The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears in the middle of the night, leaving police baffled.
03/06/2018
02:46
Drunk HistoryS5 E8
Willy Hitler Fights Against the Germans
Willy Hitler thinks he can obtain a high-ranking spot in his Uncle Adolf's party, but when things don't go his way, he turns the tables.
06/19/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E8
Frank Emi Takes a Stand
Randall Park tells the story of Frank Emi, who urged Japanese Americans to resist the draft after they were sent to internment camps during World War II.
06/19/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E10
The History of the ASPCA
Mae Whitman shares the story of Henry Bergh, who founded the ASPCA and personally patrolled the streets of 19th-century New York preventing acts of animal cruelty.
07/02/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E9
The Capture of Adolf Eichmann
Rachel Bloom tells the story of how the Mossad captured Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
07/02/2018
02:56
Drunk HistoryS5 E10
Clever Math with Clever Hans
Rich Fulcher shares the story of how Wilhelm von Osten's love of animals led to him teaching a horse named Clever Hans simple math problems.
07/04/2018
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Drunk HistoryS5 E11
Joan of Arc Leads an Army in France
A trio of dead saints convinces 13-year-old Joan of Arc to help the French defeat the British in the Hundred Years' War.
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