The Best Episodes of Drunk History
Last Updated: Jan 30, 2019
Historical reenactments as narrated by inebriated history buffs as A-list comedy/acting talent perform their tale. (Based on the award-winning web series.)
#1 - Drunk Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 7
An investigation into Agatha Christie's disappearance; the anonymous letter writer who terrorized the town of Circleville; the mastermind behind America's only unsolved airplane hijacking.
8.13
#2 - Civil Rights
Season 5 - Episode 5
A tribute to Suffragettes who fought for their rights with jujitsu; the Birmingham Children's March; disability rights activists.
8.12
#3 - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Season 6 - Episode 1
Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, "Frankenstein."
8.04
#4 - Hamilton
Season 4 - Episode 10
Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.
7.99
#5 - Baltimore
Season 2 - Episode 4
Newly elected President Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Griswold.
7.98
#6 - Atlanta
Season 1 - Episode 3
John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.
7.96
#7 - Heroines
Season 5 - Episode 1
A tribute to the first woman to fight in the Revolutionary War and receive a pension; a museum curator who saved art from the Nazis; Civil War hero Clara Bart.
7.96
#8 - Underdogs
Season 5 - Episode 6
Fred Rogers and his fight for government-funded children's TV; the female journalist who helped take down John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly.
7.93
#9 - Heists
Season 5 - Episode 9
An Italian handyman steals the Mona Lisa; the Santa bandits rob a bank in Texas; Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.
7.92
#10 - New York City
Season 2 - Episode 2
The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt mental institution.
7.90
#11 - First Ladies
Season 2 - Episode 10
Frances Cleveland becomes the youngest first lady ever, Edith Wilson runs the country after Woodrow Wilson's stroke and Dolley Madison saves several artifacts from destruction.
7.90
#12 - Sex
Season 5 - Episode 4
A salute to Margaret Sanger's crusade for accessible birth control; the creation of the Kinsey scale; Gloria Steinem's undercover work at The Playboy Club.
7.88
#13 - Montgomery, AL
Season 2 - Episode 1
Percy Julian battles adversity to become one of the greatest scientists of all time, Claudette Colvin lays the groundwork for Rosa Parks and Joe Louis fights Max Schmeling.
7.87
#14 - Boston
Season 1 - Episode 4
Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist and the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed.
7.86
#15 - Nashville
Season 1 - Episode 7
Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west.
7.86
#16 - Charleston
Season 2 - Episode 5
Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship.
7.85
#17 - Sports Heroes
Season 2 - Episode 9
Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Babe Didrikson breaks down gender barriers in sports and Jim Abbott achieves prominence as a pitcher despite having only one hand.
7.85
#18 - Shit Shows
Season 4 - Episode 11
DJ Steve Dahl sparks an anti-disco riot; the Cherry Sisters emerge as the worst vaudeville act of all time; a rivalry between two actors turns violent.
7.84
#19 - Game Changers
Season 5 - Episode 3
The early history of Hip hop; Berry Gordy, the man known for inventing Motown; Nichelle Nichols's activism both on and off the TV screen.
7.81
#20 - Space
Season 3 - Episode 13
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.
7.80
#21 - Animals
Season 5 - Episode 10
A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court; Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA; a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.
7.80
#22 - Chicago
Season 1 - Episode 2
Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during The Haymarket Riot of 1886.
7.79
#23 - Philadelphia
Season 2 - Episode 8
Baron von Steuben helps train The Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other to be President and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington’s army.
7.78
#24 - Hollywood
Season 2 - Episode 6
Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers William Randolph Hearst, animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create "Mickey Mouse" and Nancy Reagan convinces her movie star husband to enter politics.
7.76
#25 - Journalism
Season 3 - Episode 8
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race each other around the world, New York's newsboys go on strike, and a political cartoonist exposes a corrupt politician.
7.74