Yes. You get 3 free videos a month, no credit card. Paid plans start at $9/month for more videos and longer lengths.

Can I make a history video that busts a popular myth?

Yes, and it is one of the strongest openings: begin with the version everyone knows, then show what the record says. The Christmas truce works well, because the carols and swapped rations are well documented while the famous football matches are still argued over by historians.

What happens if a history script gets a date wrong?

The finished script is read, before anything is voiced, for any claim stated with confidence that is false; those lines and only those are rewritten, and no picture is redrawn. A date you want in the title still deserves a second look of your own.

How do the pictures stay in the right century?

Each picture is told where and when it is set, so the clothes, the buildings and even the light match that year. That is what keeps a street in 1919 Boston from growing a modern shopfront.

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History videos that feel like a story, not a lesson

The best history shorts pick one moment and tell it like it happened yesterday. Choose an event and get a narrated, captioned video with period visuals, and every draft is checked for being a real event.

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A good history short is one day, told so the viewer forgets they know how it ends. Boston on a mild January afternoon in 1919, just before the molasses tank split. A harbour in Nova Scotia at nine in the morning in 1917. Every road in Sweden at ten to five on a Sunday in 1967. Open inside the moment, name the people and the streets, and keep 'what it changed' for the last line: a law, a yearly tradition, a book we still read. History channels grow on series, one era or one kind of story (disasters, odd wars, discoveries), so a viewer who liked one has nine more waiting. It suits anyone who reads footnotes for fun and wants a channel that never runs short of true material.

What makes one of these work

One moment, told as a story, never a timeline.
Real names and real places, not 'a king once'.
End on what it changed.

Openings that work

Example first lines. Use one as it is or write your own in the same shape.

On January 15, 1919, a storage tank in Boston's North End split open and sent a wave of molasses through the streets at about 35 miles an hour.
At 4:50 in the morning on September 3, 1967, every driver in Sweden stopped, crossed to the other side of the road, and waited.
In November 1932, Australia sent soldiers with two Lewis guns into the wheat fields of Western Australia to fight emus.

Start from an idea

Tap one. The script, voice, pictures and captions are made for you.

The Great Molasses Flood of Boston, 1919
A wave of syrup killed 21 people, and a three-year inquiry blamed the tank's owners, not the anarchists they had pointed at.
The Halifax Explosion of December 1917
Two ships collided in a wartime harbour. The city's thank-you to Boston, a Christmas tree, is still lit on Boston Common.
The Emu War of 1932
Soldiers, machine guns and birds that split into small groups out of range. The absurd one people send to friends.
The day Sweden switched to driving on the right
A whole country swapped sides before dawn on one Sunday. Accidents fell at first, then crept back within a couple of years.
How Champollion read the Rosetta Stone in 1822
One decree carved in three scripts held the key, and a rival, Thomas Young, sat in the audience when he announced it.
The Christmas truce of 1914
Soldiers sang carols and swapped food in no man's land, and commanders made sure it never happened on the same scale again.
1816, the year without a summer
A volcano in Indonesia brought June snow to New England, and a rained-in holiday by Lake Geneva gave us Frankenstein.
The Carrington Event, the solar storm of 1859
Telegraph lines threw sparks, and some operators kept sending messages with their batteries disconnected.
The Radium Girls and the lawsuit that changed workplace safety
Dial painters told to point their brushes with their lips took their employer to court and helped shape occupational disease law.

Looks that fit

Looks that suit this kind of video. You pick one when you make it.

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Questions

Is it free?: Yes. You get 3 free videos a month, no credit card. Paid plans start at $9/month for more videos and longer lengths.
Can I make a history video that busts a popular myth?: Yes, and it is one of the strongest openings: begin with the version everyone knows, then show what the record says. The Christmas truce works well, because the carols and swapped rations are well documented while the famous football matches are still argued over by historians.
What happens if a history script gets a date wrong?: The finished script is read, before anything is voiced, for any claim stated with confidence that is false; those lines and only those are rewritten, and no picture is redrawn. A date you want in the title still deserves a second look of your own.
How do the pictures stay in the right century?: Each picture is told where and when it is set, so the clothes, the buildings and even the light match that year. That is what keeps a street in 1919 Boston from growing a modern shopfront.