Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Dan Carlin

Episodes 12
Avg. Duration 4h 40m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (63,689)
Since Jul 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Irregularly
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About This Podcast

In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This isn't academic history (and Carlin isn't a historian) but the podcast's unique blend of high drama, masterful narration and Twilight Zone-style twists has entertained millions of listeners.

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Recent Episodes

Show 73 - Mania for Subjugation III

Dec 22, 2025 4h 14m

Attacking the largest empire the world had ever seen is a huge endeavor at any age, but try doing it at 21. Alexander, fusing the qualities of a Napoleon with a gladiator, aims for immortality. The…

Show 72 - Mania for Subjugation II

Jan 03, 2025 3h 51m

Is it safe to hand control of the deadliest army in the world to a 20-year old? If you are Thracian, Triballian, Illyrian or Theban, the answer is definitely no. Alexander becomes king and fights off…

Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation

Jun 07, 2024 4h 11m

What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, and Nepotism.

Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II

Nov 19, 2023 6h 23m

Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less…

Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

Jan 15, 2023 5h 10m

This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die…

Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources

Mar 07, 2022 5h 39m

The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That…

Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI

Jun 08, 2021 5h 45m

When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits…

Show 66 - Supernova in the East V

Nov 14, 2020 3h 32m

Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the…

Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV

Jun 03, 2020 3h 58m

Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and…

Show 64 - Supernova in the East III

Oct 25, 2019 4h 53m

Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.

Show 63 - Supernova in the East II

Jan 12, 2019 4h 1m

Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond.…

Show 62 - Supernova in the East I

Jul 14, 2018 4h 28m

The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America,…

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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has published 12 episodes since July 2018, covering topics in History.

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