Military History Talks YouTube Stats

@militaryhistorytalks · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Military History Talks channel overview

Military History Talks (@militaryhistorytalks) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2022. It has 45K subscribers and 206M total views across 2.8K videos, an average of 72K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 18K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 744 views. Over the last 12 months, Military History Talks published 204 videos (97% Shorts), and 10 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Military History Talks gained 1.7K subscribers and 9.3M views, about 549K views a day.

How much does Military History Talks make?

Returbe estimates Military History Talks's YouTube ad revenue at $540 – $1.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $60.

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Upload schedule

Military History Talks publishes about 221.6 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (20% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Military History Talks's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Military History Talks's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 1 Submarine Captain Hunted the Destroyers Hunting Him #ww2 #history #shorts1.1M views · Oct 10, 202622.1× typical views
• 1 Japanese American Gunner Needed the War Secretary to Fly Over Japan #ww2 #history #shorts525K views · Oct 15, 202610.3× typical views
• 1 Marine Built His Own Machine Gun From a Wrecked Plane #ww2 #history #shorts420K views · Oct 17, 20268.2× typical views
• A Jewish Refugee Came Back to Germany as a US Private — and Ran a City #ww2 #history #shorts408K views · Oct 28, 20268× typical views
• 1 Pilot Looped the Golden Gate Bridge and Got Grounded #ww2 #history #shorts403K views · Oct 17, 20267.9× typical views
• A Legendary NFL Coach Crash-Landed His B-17 When the Fuel Ran Out #ww2 #history #shorts351K views · Oct 23, 20266.9× typical views
• The President's Son Raided a Japanese Island — in Sneakers #ww2 #history #shorts282K views · Oct 19, 20265.5× typical views
• 1 President's Older Brother Volunteered to Fly a Flying Bomb #ww2 #history #shorts252K views · Oct 16, 20264.9× typical views

Latest videos

0 of Military History Talks's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Last Man of the Enola Gay Crew Said He'd Do It Again #ww2 #history #shorts8.2K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• A Tree Stopped This Paratrooper From Jumping Into D-Day #ww2 #history #shorts16K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• The Press Called Him the 4th Most Decorated Soldier He Said No #ww2 #history #shorts29K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Baseball's Best Hitter Ferried Wounded Crews Into Pearl Harbor #ww2 #history #shorts6.4K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• The Iwo Jima Flag Raiser Who Never Wanted the Fame #ww2 #history #shorts8.8K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Only One Man Flew on Both Atomic Bomb Missions #ww2 #history #shorts2.7K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Gilligan's Island's Professor Was Shot Down Over the Philippines #ww2 #history #shorts1.2K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• At Anzio the Tallest Man Was Sent Off First to Test the Water #ww2 #history #shorts1.1K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• A Future President Made Over 400 Army Films Instead of Fighting #ww2 #history #shorts725 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Every WW2 Battle in Europe Ranked — Worst to Best195 views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Military History Talks or YouTube.