Playlist · CrashCourse
History of Science
Total watch time
9h 41m
at 1× speed · exactly 9 hours, 41 minutes, 7 seconds at 1×
At an hour a day you'd finish in 10 days
The shape of the course
47 videos in blocks of 10 · each column is a block's total, to scale
WatchedTo watch
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Plan to finish
About 10 days at an hour a day
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Videos (47)
9h 41m in total · tick what you've watched
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Data from the YouTube Data API as of 2026-10-27 (cached). Private or deleted videos are excluded from totals.