epic podcasts

American History Tellers

Audible · History

American history as immersive audio drama, one era per season.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Dan Carlin · History

Five-hour history epics that hit like feature films. Start with the fall of anything.

Empire: World History

Goalhanger · History

How empires rise, rule, and rot, told by two great raconteurs.

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Fall of Civilizations Podcast · History

Feature-length elegies for collapsed civilizations, gorgeous and devastating.

Revolutions

Mike Duncan · History

Every great revolution, narrated with clarity from first spark to final purge.

The History of Rome

Mike Duncan · History

Rome, from foundation myth to fall, in one legendary chronological run.

World War II with Tom Hanks

The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy · History

Tom Hanks walks the Second World War from invasion to atom bomb.

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger · History

Two historians make the past feel like the best dinner party in Britain.

Throughline

NPR · History

The history hiding underneath the news.

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman · History

Deep history from the Ice Age forward, written by an actual historian.

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Technology

Four-hour company histories treated like great literature. The best business show ever made.

History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson · History

American history that earns the title, funny and rigorously sourced.