Drunk History
Based on the popular web series, Drunk History is the liquored-up narration of our nation's history. Host Derek Waters, along with an ever-changing cast of actors and comedians, travels across the country to present the rich tales that every city in this land has to offer. Booze helps bring out the truth. It's just that sometimes the truth is a little incoherent.
- Metascore57
- 2013-2019
- 6 seasons
- Pluto TV
- Comedy, Documentary
- TV-14
Based on the popular web series, Drunk History is the liquored-up narration of our nation's history. Host Derek Waters, along with an ever-changing cast of actors and comedians, travels across the country to present the rich tales that every city in this land has to offer. Booze helps bring out the truth. It's just that sometimes the truth is a little incoherent.
Season 6 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2019
Episode 1
Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
Tue, Jan 15, 2019 21 mins
The story of how Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Episode 2
National Parks
Tue, Jan 22, 2019 21 mins
John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.
Episode 3
Baseball
Tue, Jan 29, 2019 21 mins
Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th-century MLB, the Chicago White Sox throw the World Series, and the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own."
Episode 4
Trailblazers
Tue, Feb 5, 2019 21 mins
Bessie Coleman becomes the first female aviator in American history; in 1957, the Little Rock Nine fight back against racial segregation in order to attend Little Rock Central High School.
Episode 5
Love
Tue, Feb 12, 2019 21 mins
A student tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a bank to pay for his wife's gender reassignment surgery.
Episode 6
Drugs
Tue, Feb 19, 2019 21 mins
John F. Kennedy's doctor administers him meth for his back pain, and Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.
Episode 7
Femme Fatales
Tue, Feb 26, 2019 21 mins
Mata Hari goes exotic dancer to double agent during World War I; Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago's infamous Murderesses' Row.
Episode 8
Drunk Mystery II
Tue, Mar 5, 2019 21 mins
Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead; a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht; Ken McElroy is murdered after terrorizing a Missouri town.
Episode 9
Derek Waters' Believe It or Not
Fri, Jan 18, 2019 21 mins
Larry lifts off in a weather balloon propelled lawn chair. Phineas Gage survives a metal rod through his brain to become a sideshow. A ghost helps convict a man of murder.
Episode 10
Legacies
Tue, Jun 25, 2019 21 mins
Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that changes the face of music. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are nearly deported. The story of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
Episode 11
Fame
Tue, Jul 2, 2019 21 mins
Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star.
Episode 12
Good Samaritans
Tue, Jul 9, 2019 21 mins
Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire, and Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.
Episode 13
Whistleblowers
Tue, Jul 16, 2019 21 mins
Martha Mitchell is the original Watergate leaker. The Citizen's Commission stage an epic break-in to FBI headquarters.
Episode 14
Behind Enemy Lines
Tue, Jul 23, 2019 21 mins
Marina Raskova forms an all-women Air Force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II; smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.
Episode 15
S.O.S.
Tue, Jul 30, 2019 21 mins
Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he's taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.
Episode 16
Bad Blood
Tue, Aug 6, 2019 21 mins
Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.
