Drunk History

Rasputin's Journey to St. Petersburg

Season 5 E 2 • 01/30/2018

Rasputin believed he could really help people -- through sex.

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Drunk HistoryS4 E8
Julia Child Goes From Spy to Gourmet Chef

On her way to becoming a famous chef, Julia Child works as a spy overseas and meets her future husband.
11/22/2016
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Drunk HistoryS4 E9
Alexander Hamilton Teams Up with George Washington

Lin-Manuel Miranda describes Hamilton's tutelage under General Washington -- and his crazy eagerness to fight in the Revolutionary War.
11/29/2016
02:41

Drunk HistoryS4 E9
Alexander Hamilton's Steamy Affair

Lin-Manuel Miranda describes how news of Hamilton's infidelity found its way into the newspaper -- and how Hamilton tried to deal with it.
11/29/2016
06:48

Drunk HistoryS4 E10
Steve Dahl's Disco Demolition

When rock 'n' roll DJ Steve Dahl blows up a crate of disco records in a baseball stadium, teenagers riot in celebration.
12/06/2016
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Drunk HistoryS4 E10
The Cherry Sisters' Terrible Vaudeville Act

Five sisters discover that putting on horrible morality plays is more lucrative than farming.
12/06/2016
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Drunk HistoryS4
Drunk History Christmas Special

Washington crosses the Delaware, Dickens pens "A Christmas Carol" in six weeks, and Teddy Roosevelt bans Christmas trees in a new special premiering November 28 at 10/9c.
11/01/2017
07:00

Drunk HistoryS5 E14
A Very Teddy Roosevelt Christmas - Uncensored

Teddy Roosevelt decreed a ban on Christmas trees, but his children changed his mind with their holiday spirit.
11/29/2017
05:31

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.
01/23/2018
01:02

Drunk HistoryS5 E1
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
07:39

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
02:53

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
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