All Of Human History In One Hour
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Modern humans have been around for around 200,000 years. With Earth being 4.5 billion years old, this might seem like only a small speck of time, yet our story is long, rich, and full of transformation. And now, we’ve turned the entire history of humanity into our second animated movie! From the first humans in Africa to ancient tools, art, rituals, catastrophes, and civilizations, experience all of human history in just one hour, one second at a time.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Give Well Integration
01:20 East Africa, Moroco, South Africa (Savannah)
05:20 Calendar Integration
06:22 North Africa (Desert)
08:54 Madagascar (Dry Forest)
11:35 South Africa (Coastline)
15:44 East Africa (Woodland)
17:55 East Africa (Rainforest Mountains)
20:24 East Africa (Canyon)
22:24 North Africa (Green Sahara)
25:54 Saudi Arabia (Wetlands)
29:24 Red Sea (Land Bridge)
32:23 Levant (Mountain Valley)
35:24 Central Asia (Highlands)
38:24 China (Mountains)
41:24 Southeast Asia (Jungle)
44:24 Oceania (Open Waters)
46:54 Indonesia (Jungle Cave)
49:14 Germany (Cave)
51:25 Central Europe (Steppe)
53:55 Asia, North America (Tundra)
56:25 South America (Coastline & Jungle)
58:50 Human Era (Worldwide)
01:03:03 Give Well Integration
01:04:10 Space Outro
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@kurzgesagt
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
This video was sponsored by GiveWell. First-time donors will have their donation matched up to $100 at https://www.givewell.org/Kurzgesagt
@sebastianoprofita281
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
such a masterpiece
@Aperturescience1945
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Morroco isn't in south africa mate
@mauriciocm1275
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
If the video started at the moment the last dinosaur walked the Earth, we would have to watch for more than 13 days just to reach the beginning of this video.
@TallSilhouette
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
This is one of the coolest videos you guys have ever done.
@Alistair-n4w
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I wonder what would of happened if Neanderthals also survived and where living with us today
Also why has it that we evolved rapidly but the other animals seem to have not changed
@maxheinemann9683
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Would love to see a video like this, but how our solar system came into being. Or of the dinosaurs OR … no that’s it, I guess..
@jackbob6492
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Sorry to be that guy but the egyptians werent black and their closest modern relatives are arabs
@eliotmorgan7622
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
40:17
@starry4471
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I would personally MUCH RATHER be stressed by personal performance in hunting African wildlife than be stressed by the imaginary artificial concepts of currency, wages, and bills, whose values I can't control. I would very likely die if I was thrown into a primitive survival scenario, but it sure as hell beats dying from modern-day poverty and alienation. The modern world moves too quickly; suicide statistics, mental health statistics, and other statistics related to the modern idea of "success" (of all genders) speak for themselves.
@pykapuka
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
1:56 I love this song!
@Pacowaka4045
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I’d love to have this video running in the background like in Wallpaper Engine or something.
@FreshThoughtz
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
You should now do one on the entire human civilization.
@GenericallyEpik
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
the sequel has come out
@VallejosAndrea
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Big round of applause for all the kurzgesagt team, also props to your music team, I love how they make work all the music background and goes seamlessly with the animation, I totally would buy an OST from this video and the one of the 4.5 billion years.❤
@Supermunch2000
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
When they say we're cursed to live in such interesting times, this is what they mean… nearly an hour of nothing and, suddenly, EVERYTHING!
@Chizzbun
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Its crazy to realize that after inventing better languages the technology developed so much faster. That shows why teamwork and open communication can make everything more efficient and better.
@craigplested3242
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
57:00 – "Sabre Tooth Tiger", i'm sure you meant "Sabre-Tooth Cat" or Smilodon. The use of "Sabre-tooth Tiger" is an unfortunate error in this amazing video.
@allpurposehuman
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I'll just imagine how long this video to be animated 😭✌🏼
@benoitlefevre8064
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Nice and relaxing. Too bad for the two ad cuts at the beginning. I understand the need for you to monetize your work but I would have prefered them at the very beginning so that they wouldn't disturb your video.
@CourtneySovitsaRobinson
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Tell me why I was moved to tears at the end. Knowing that the house I live in, the device I watch this on, and all the valuable efforts put into creating this video were the product of 10s of thousands of years of human cooperation and collaboration is a valuable beacon of hope that is greatly needed right now.
@missnobody6151
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
AI will take care about the rest ! 😉
@baal-r7t
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
The video is very nice… if you enjoy fighting off motion sickness just to finish it! 😅
@SlimStarCraft
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
holy fuck 5 minutes into the video an they're still shilling themselfes? jeezes crist
@theallmemeingeye5927
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Does anyone know what that brick pedistal thing is that the camera focuses on just before the industrial revolution around 1:02:19 ?
@sealestiale
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
i didn’t know how deep this video was gunna go and was expecting tragedies to appear to be honest
@eliotmorgan7622
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Baby Jesus
@randaaustin6877
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
The SUN parted the Red Sea through climate and this was the MIRACLE of time, attributed to the Son of God.
@randaaustin6877
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I don't think the shells and tusks and such were decoration or art, as you've concluded. They were displays of what you'd eaten and the journey involved. – as an anthropologist and economist.
@blueduks1409
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Dude as soon as we learned to write and read, the ozone layer was F*CKED
@Marleybra10nj
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Do every prehistoric animals and planta in 1 hour!
@Eat_moss
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Morgan Freeman’s voice has got nothing on this voice
@sarthaksingal
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
12000 years in 120 minutes @kurzgesagt
@lastar7824
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
wish i couldve lived in caveman times, but in all human history i only get put on this tiny spec at the end that has taxes and brainrot. we need to use our brains more than ever but they are being fed slop 🙁 except for by kurzgesagt love those bastards!
@وردةالجوري-ف2و8ف
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
193😊
@rshirsalkar
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I’ve been waiting for this video for months!
@Gia1911Logous
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
wouldn't be opposed to seeing the same type of video from the late neolithic about 5000 years ago at the start of civilization to today with every second being 1 year and it goes for like 1.5 hrs
@ktos6893
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
41:45 Isn't monstera native to America?
@StevenWatterson
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Finally, New Zealand is featured on the map
@liam78587
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
im honestly surprised by just how much time homo sapiens wasted in africa in those 100k years potentially 200k years depending on when they came into being so much development could've happened in that much time even the last 100k years journey was too slow i can only look past the 12k years of human era it was fine and finally modern history only began 500 years ago and in that very short amount of time we've made massive leaps before humans our ancestors weren't even taking baby steps i could only imagine how much we might've done if somehow modern humans were born 300k years ago hopefully in the future we can upload consciousness and speed up thoughts to roughly 1 nanosecond per 1 perceived second to make up for all the lost time
@lashonnakennybrew4847
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Boy we wish you was back in the old dinosaurs and Arctic age time is we made babies or we all go extinct and we met such More Humans to this day
@thistheodoretang
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Can you make a video about romans please?
@Mike_On_Toast
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
somebody explained it in 19 minutes though, i guess
@salin1982
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
I wish we could meet that dudes who invented the wheel, paper and metal melting technology.
@IndigoAtoms
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm
41:31 DID ANYONE SEE THE EYES IN THE BACK BLACK CAVE??????!!!!
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