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Season 2020

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1957902
  • Created September 21, 2021
  • Modified August 19, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2020E01 Why did the Dutch Empire Fall Apart? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 3, 2020
S2020E02 The Romanian Revolution: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
January 7, 2020
S2020E03 Why did Sparta Have Two Kings? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 10, 2020
S2020E04 Why do Ex-British Colonies use Dollars Instead of Pounds? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 14, 2020
S2020E05 Who Named the United States? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 17, 2020
S2020E06 What Happened When Kamikaze Pilots Failed or Wimped Out? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 21, 2020
S2020E07 Why didn't Mao Conquer Taiwan? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 24, 2020
S2020E08 How Did Portugal Happen? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 27, 2020
S2020E09 Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 29, 2020
S2020E10 Why, How and When did Britain Join the EU? (Short Animated Documentary)
January 31, 2020
S2020E11 Did Ancient Rome and China Know About Each Other? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 3, 2020
S2020E12 Why are Purple Flags So Rare? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 5, 2020
S2020E13 What Happened to the Last Emperor of China? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 7, 2020
S2020E14 What did Leon Trotsky do in Exile? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 11, 2020
S2020E15 When Did Passports Become a Thing? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 12, 2020
S2020E16 How 'Wild' was the Wild West (Short Animated Documentary)
February 15, 2020
S2020E17 Why did Nobody Conquer Liechtenstein? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 18, 2020
S2020E18 How Bad was the Spanish Inquisition? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 20, 2020
S2020E19 Why did Sweden Support the Vietcong? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 22, 2020
S2020E20 Why did Japan Join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)
February 26, 2020
S2020E21 Why Didn't the Arab World Unite? (Short Animated Documentary)
March 4, 2020
S2020E22 The Highland Clearances: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
March 14, 2020
S2020E23 The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
March 25, 2020
S2020E24 The Dreyfus Affair: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
April 4, 2020
S2020E25 The Time the Dutch Ate their Prime Minister (Short Animated Documentary)
April 11, 2020
S2020E26 What Happened to Portugal's Monarchy?
April 19, 2020
S2020E27 The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR - August Coup of 1991 (Short Animated Documentary)
April 30, 2020
S2020E28 Did France and Britain Almost Unite into the Franco-British Union? (Short Animated Documentary)
May 3, 2020
S2020E29 Why don't Countries Formally Declare War Anymore? (Short Animated Documentary)
May 8, 2020
S2020E30 Why does Belgium Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)
May 18, 2020
S2020E31 Why Didn't the Allies Declare War on the USSR when it Invaded Poland? (Short Animated Documentary)
May 23, 2020
S2020E32 Why wasn't Iran colonised? (Short Animated Documentary)
May 28, 2020
S2020E33 How did the USSR React to JFK's Assassination? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 3, 2020
S2020E34 Why does the west use Arabic Numerals? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 10, 2020
S2020E35 When Did Time Zones Become a Thing? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 13, 2020
S2020E36 Why Did Britain Refuse to Annex Malta? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 17, 2020
S2020E37 Hiroshima: After the Bomb (Short Animated Documentary)
June 20, 2020
S2020E38 Why Does Moldova Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 24, 2020
S2020E39 When did Constantinople become Istanbul? (Short Animated Documentary)
June 29, 2020
S2020E40 How did Communist States React to the USSR's Collapse? (Short Animated Documentary)
July 8, 2020
S2020E41 How Did Ancient Philosophers Make Money? (Short Animated Documentary)
July 13, 2020
S2020E42 Why wasn't Japan Split Between the Allies After World War 2 (Short Animated Documentary)
July 17, 2020
S2020E43 Why Does Luxembourg Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)
July 22, 2020
S2020E44 Why Did Kings Stop Leading Troops into Battle? (Short Animated Documentary)
July 27, 2020
S2020E45 How is France on its Fifth Republic? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 1, 2020
S2020E46 Why didn't the USSR Annex Finland (Short Animated Documentary)
August 5, 2020
S2020E47 Why is the Vatican an Independent Country? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 10, 2020
S2020E48 Why did Argentina Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 15, 2020
S2020E49 Why Didn't the Allies Get Rid of Franco After the Second World War? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 19, 2020
S2020E50 Did Pepsi Really Own the Sixth Largest Navy in the World? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 24, 2020
S2020E51 Why Isn't New Zealand a Part of Australia? (Short Animated Documentary)
August 31, 2020
S2020E52 Why was Japan Allowed to Keep its Emperor After World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)
September 7, 2020
S2020E53 How did Medieval Banking Work? (Short Animated Documentary)
September 16, 2020
S2020E54 Why does Denmark Own Greenland? (Short Animated Documentary)
September 23, 2020
S2020E55 What Happened to Prussia? (Short Animated Documentary)
October 6, 2020
S2020E56 Did Medieval Knights Actually Go On Quests? (Short Animated Documentary)
October 13, 2020
S2020E57 Who Picked the UN Security Council? (Short Animated Documentary)
October 16, 2020
S2020E58 Why does America Have An Electoral College? (Short Animated Documentary)
October 23, 2020
S2020E59 How did Europe React to the Fall of Constantinople? (Short Animated Documentary)
October 30, 2020
S2020E60 Why did the Mensheviks Lose to the Bolsheviks? (Short Animated Documentary)
November 10, 2020
S2020E61 How did the World React to the American Civil War? (Short Animated Documentary)
November 18, 2020
S2020E62 Why did Britain Build Nuclear Weapons? (Short Animated Documentary)
November 25, 2020
S2020E63 Why did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor? (Short Animated Documentary)
November 30, 2020
S2020E64 Why did Cuba Intervene in Angola? (Short Animated Documentary)
December 9, 2020
S2020E65 Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Mongolia? (Short Animated Documentary)
December 18, 2020
S2020E66 How did France Get Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)
December 26, 2020
S2020E67 Why didn't the Virginias Get Back Together? (Short Animated Documentary)
season finale
December 31, 2020

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