Kings and Generals

Animated maps are the draw: armies move across clear terrain, which makes campaigns from Carthage's wars with the Greeks in Sicily to the Eastern Front of World War II far easier to follow than a page of text. A team makes the videos, and the descriptions credit the scriptwriter and narrator by name. With more than 2,000 videos it reaches almost every era of military history, but sourcing is uneven: some series episodes link a full bibliography, while many single videos list none. Use it to grasp the shape of a campaign, then check the details somewhere that shows its sources.