Drunk History

7.8

Historical reenactments by A-list talent are presented by inebriated storytellers.

Derek Waters / Bennie Arthur / Craig Cackowski / Maria Blasucci / Jeremy J. Tutson / Tim Baltz / Mort Burke / Michael Coleman / Tymberlee Hill

    • Released
    • (2013-)
    • Seasons
    • 6 seasons
    • Status
    • returning series
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    SEASON 3

  • Episode 13Space

  • Episode 12Episode #3.12

  • Episode 11Inventors

    Alexander Graham Bell steals the original design for the telephone from Elisha Gray, and Thomas Edison tries to create a movie-making monopoly. Featuring Parker Posey, Chris Parnell, Jason ...

  • Episode 10New Mexico

    Popé leads the Pueblo Indians in a revolt, Boy Scouts founder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, and the truth behind the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed. Featuring Colin Hanks, Jason ...

  • Episode 9Los Angeles

    The Wild West origins of the LAPD, Rin Tin Tin's rise to fame as a Hollywood star, and the shady dealings behind the LA Aqueduct and St. Francis Dam. Featuring Giancarlo Esposito, Ryan ...

  • Episode 8Journalism

    Derek Waters travels to different cities to get people drunk and have them tell a tale from history. Then the dialogue is portrayed by real actors and comedians.

  • Episode 7Oklahoma

    Kentucky Daisy stakes a claim to land, Gordon Cooper overcomes mechanical issues on a one-man space mission, and African-American Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves is the inspiration for the Lone ...

  • Episode 6Games

    Milton Bradley popularizes board games, Roger Sharpe helps overturn a pinball ban, and chess master Bobby Fischer defeats Russian rival Boris Spassky during the Cold War. Featuring Topher Grace, Zach Gilford, Taran Killam and Jake Johnson.

  • Episode 5Cleveland

    Wayne Wheeler becomes the face of Prohibition, Dorothy Fuldheim breaks barriers in news broadcasting, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War. Featuring Gaius Charles, Samm ...

  • Episode 4Spies

    Virginia Hall works as a spy behind enemy lines in France during World War II; and intelligence officer Roald Dahl aids the British war effort against the Axis powers. Also: Harriet Tubman supplies the Union army with information.

  • Episode 3New Orleans

    Pirate John Lafitte helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin, and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend. Featuring Jack McBrayer...

  • Episode 2Miami

    Actor Clark Gable joins the Air Force during World War II, Ponce de Leon quarrels with Diego Columbus, and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami.

  • Episode 1New Jersey

    Paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become rivals, and Penzias & Wilson discover the echo of the Big Bang. Featuring Greg Kinnear, Stephen Merchant, Justin Long, Jason Ritter, Tony Hale and Christopher Meloni.

    SEASON 2

  • Episode 10First Ladies

    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. Featuring ...

  • Episode 9Sports Heroes

    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 ...

  • Episode 8Philadelphia

    Baron von Steuben helps train the Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other for president, and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington's army. ...

  • Episode 7Hawaii

    James Cook "discovers" Hawaii and parties with the natives, Japanese-American Daniel Inouye fights heroically in World War II, and Eddie Aikau becomes one of the world's greatest big wave ...

  • Episode 6Hollywood

    Orson Welles's "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. ...

  • Episode 5Charleston

    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. Featuring Patton Oswalt, ...

  • Episode 4Baltimore

    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. Featuring ...

  • Episode 3American Music

    Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia Robinson creates The ...

  • Episode 2New York City

    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.

  • Episode 1Montgomery, AL

    Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling...

    SEASON 1

  • Episode 8Wild West

    Hold-outs fight to the bitter end at the Alamo, Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett, and Teddy Roosevelt rounds up the Rough Riders and goes to war. Guest starring Jake Johnson, Chris Parnell, Andy Daly and more.

  • Episode 7Nashville

    Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west, evolution is questioned in the controversial "trial of the century," and Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous. Guest starring Tony Hale, Aubrey Plaza, Jack McBrayer and more.

  • Episode 6Detroit

    Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors, Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals, and the Kellogg Brothers invent cereal but battle each other.

  • Episode 5San Francisco

    Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear and finds his unlikely first hit story. Guest starring Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Lisa Bonet and more.

  • Episode 4Boston

    Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist, & the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed. Guest star: Winona Ryder, Michael Cera, Nick Offerman

  • Episode 3Atlanta

    John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the FBI tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr., and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Guest starring Bill Hader, Simon Helberg, Kevin Nealon and more.

  • Episode 2Chicago

    Al Capone gets destroyed by an unlikely enemy, prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln gets a huge break, and the police go to war with protestors during the Haymarket Riot. Guest starring Ike Barinholtz, Joe Lo Truglio, Matt Besser.

  • Episode 1Washington D.C.

    Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud, and Elvis crashes the White House to meet Nixon. Guest starring Jack Black, Dave Grohl, Bob Odenkirk.