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Free Documentary - History - what's actually working, and what isn't

Education · 51-min uploads · 1.1M subscribers · started 2020 · ~3.4/week
Est. ad revenue$2K–$8K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 181 most recent of 405 long-form uploads. One of the education YouTube channels we track. Visit Free Documentary - History on YouTube →

In Free Documentary - History's own words
Free Documentary - History is dedicated to bringing you high-class documentaries on YouTube for free. You will see fascinating documentaries showing the past from a new perspective and explanations by renowned historians that make history come alive. Enjoy stories about people and events that...Based in DE

How many views does Free Documentary - History actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 41% of all views and its biggest is 18.8× the median, so the median upload (85K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

85K
median views
18.8×
top vs median
34%
hit rate (2×+)
41%
views from top 10%

What is Free Documentary - History's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "The Third Reich in Colour | Full Series | Free Documentary History" at 1.6M views - 18.8× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
The Third Reich in Colour | Full Series | Free Documentary History1.6M
Battlefield - Great Battles of WWII | Episode 1: Kursk | Free Documentary History1.0M
Vanished: The U.S. Air Force DC-54 Mystery | Skymaster Down | Free Documentary History817K

Which titles work best for Free Documentary - History - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
The Third Reich in Colour | Full Series | Free Documentary History1.6M
Battlefield - Great Battles of WWII | Episode 1: Kursk | Free Documentary History1.0M
Vanished: The U.S. Air Force DC-54 Mystery | Skymaster Down | Free Documentary History817K
Hiroshima & Nagasaki: The Footage You Weren't Supposed to See | Free Documentary History783K
World War II in Colour | Episode 1: The Gathering Storm | Free Documentary History678K
World War II in Colour | Episode 9: Overlord | Free Documentary History627K
Titanic: How They Built the "Unsinkable" Ship | Free Documentary History625K
Druids: Myth, Magic, and the Truth | Free Documentary History604K
The JFK Conspiracy: Oliver Stone Speaks Out | Free Documentary History588K
The Man Who Saw Too Much - A Survivor's Story | Free Documentary History495K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Darwin 1942: The Attack They Tried to Hide | Free Documentary History15K
Mao's Cold War: The Hidden Superpower | Part 3: China vs. USSR | Free Documentary History15K
World War Weird: Nazi Dinosaurs | Free Documentary History15K
Road to Defeat: Adolf Hitler's Fatal Mistakes | Free Documentary History14K
The Trojan Horse: Myth or Reality? | Free Documentary History14K
The Stolen Childhood - Growing Up in Nazi Germany | Part 3 | Free Documentary History14K
U-Boat Wargamers | Episode 2: False Dawns | Free Documentary History13K
Aribert Heim: One of the Most Notorious Nazis You've Never Heard Of | Free Documentary History13K
Hjalmar Schacht: Banker of the Third Reich | Inside Hitler's Killing Machine | FD History12K
The Stolen Childhood - Growing Up in Nazi Germany | Part 2 | Free Documentary History12K

The words that win for Free Documentary - History

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: colour war world.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 181 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - Free Documentary - History
Has a number60% of videos
+127%
An ALL-CAPS word16% of videos
+20%
The title formula for Free Documentary - History

Lean on has a number and an all-caps word - they lift views the most on this channel.

What keywords does Free Documentary - History rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: world war, war colour, battlefield great, great battles, battles wwii, second world, civil war, third reich. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Free Documentary - History post, and when?

Free Documentary - History publishes about 3.4 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
11
Mon
8
Tue
12
Wed
11
Thu
16
Fri
107
Sat
16

How long are Free Documentary - History's videos?

Typical uploads run about 51 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (85K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
85K

How does Free Documentary - History compare to other education channels?

At 85K median views, Free Documentary - History runs above the typical education channel we track (23K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does Free Documentary - History make? (estimated)

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, Free Documentary - History pulls roughly 1.2M long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $1,243-$4,971 a month in ad revenue (about $14,912-$59,650 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like Free Documentary - History make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Fri, and build titles around its proven words (colour, war, world). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 85K views.

Free Documentary - History stats at a glance

Subscribers1.1M
Total views195M
Videos published405
Avg views (of 181 analyzed)157K
Engagement rate12.3%
Uploads per week3.4
Typical length51 min
On YouTube since2020 (6 yrs)

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