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First 1B+ Video

January 13, 2017

German reunification – a short history | DW Documentary

Latest 1B+ Video

January 23, 2021

Who were the Neanderthals? | DW Documentary

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Rank	Video	Views	Category	Published
#1	Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich \| DW Documentary 20.83M views	20.83M 20,828,006	150.07K	Education	Jun 09, 2019
#2	Brides for sale - Bulgaria's Roma marriage market \| DW Documentary 19.68M views	19.68M 19,677,240	106.91K	Education	Mar 10, 2018
#3	Kiribati: a drowning paradise in the South Pacific \| DW Documentary 13.58M views	13.58M 13,575,830	62.63K	Education	Nov 08, 2017
#4	What happened to Otto Warmbier in North Korea? \| DW Documentary 12.51M views	12.51M 12,509,124	126.36K	Education	Nov 27, 2020
#5	Hürtgen forest and the end of World War II \| DW Documentary 11.65M views	11.65M 11,645,499	68.94K	Education	May 02, 2020
#6	How the rich get richer - Money in the world economy \| DW Documentary 11.42M views	11.42M 11,417,892	93.00K	Education	Jul 05, 2017
#7	Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (Director's Cut) \| DW Documentary 9.29M views	9.29M 9,288,015	55.46K	Education	Jun 24, 2017
#8	Traveling Iran by train \| DW Documentary 9.26M views	9.26M 9,264,833	49.25K	Education	May 12, 2017
#9	By train across Sri Lanka \| DW Documentary 9.05M views	9.05M 9,052,026	44.47K	Education	Sep 20, 2017
#10	Who were the Neanderthals? \| DW Documentary 8.98M views	8.98M 8,984,090	66.31K	Education	Jan 23, 2021
#11	Visiting North Korea \| DW Documentary 8.51M views	8.51M 8,511,292	49.57K	Education	Dec 29, 2017
#12	St. Helena - A remote island in the Atlantic \| DW Documentary 6.91M views	6.91M 6,913,839	41.42K	Education	Oct 28, 2017
#13	Oil promises – how oil changed a country \| DW Documentary 6.59M views	6.59M 6,586,136	24.96K	Education	Dec 03, 2020
#14	Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) \| DW Documentary 6.29M views	6.29M 6,293,744	68.65K	Education	Jan 13, 2017
#15	Who owns Jerusalem? \| DW Documentary 6.27M views	6.27M 6,269,851	36.29K	Education	May 14, 2018
#16	The Akha tribe in Laos: Between tradition and modernity \| DW Documentary 6.23M views	6.23M 6,227,828	32.81K	Education	Apr 12, 2019
#17	The Renaissance - The Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (1/2) \| DW Documentary 5.87M views	5.87M 5,874,696	41.39K	Education	Apr 28, 2019
#18	Climate change – living on the water \| DW Documentary 5.83M views	5.83M 5,833,946	28.65K	Education	Jul 08, 2020
#19	Testosterone — new discoveries about the male hormone \| DW Documentary 5.71M views	5.71M 5,714,131	59.85K	Education	Sep 12, 2019
#20	Tour of the Arctic (2/2) – from Greenland to Alaska \| DW Documentary 5.64M views	5.64M 5,644,880	25.50K	Education	Dec 27, 2020
#21	Rubber tires — a dirty business \| DW Documentary 5.24M views	5.24M 5,236,034	58.42K	Education	Sep 17, 2019
#22	Inequality – how wealth becomes power (1/3) \| DW Documentary 5.07M views	5.07M 5,070,032	42.89K	Education	Aug 18, 2018
#23	The kidnapping campaign of Nazi Germany \| DW Documentary 4.68M views	4.68M 4,675,307	45.50K	Education	Mar 11, 2020
#24	The New Silk Road, Part 1: From China to Pakistan \| DW Documentary 4.62M views	4.62M 4,616,302	31.36K	Education	Jul 20, 2019
#25	The marriage market for Indian HIV patients \| DW Documentary 4.47M views	4.47M 4,470,646	65.34K	Education	Dec 02, 2020
#26	Tomatoes and greed - The exodus of Ghana's farmers \| DW Documentary 4.27M views	4.27M 4,265,554	17.60K	Education	Jan 22, 2020
#27	Traveling Ecuador by train \| DW Documentary 4.26M views	4.26M 4,264,548	20.40K	Education	Sep 20, 2018
#28	The murder of Jamal Khashoggi \| DW Documentary 4.17M views	4.17M 4,174,350	36.84K	Education	Oct 01, 2020
#29	New York City rich and poor - The inequality crisis \| DW Documentary 4.09M views	4.09M 4,092,477	40.65K	Education	Jan 07, 2021
#30	Mexico – Fear of Trump's wall \| DW Documentary 4.05M views	4.05M 4,052,940	18.18K	Education	Jan 17, 2017
#31	Mahatma Gandhi – dying for freedom \| DW Documentary 4.01M views	4.01M 4,007,500	40.85K	Education	Jan 31, 2018
#32	The death of Adolf Hitler \| DW Documentary 4.01M views	4.01M 4,005,689	40.60K	Education	Apr 30, 2020
#33	Superfoods – is healthy eating just hype? \| DW Documentary 3.90M views	3.90M 3,901,616	40.34K	Education	Aug 22, 2020
#34	Afro Germany - Being black and German \| DW Documentary 3.58M views	3.58M 3,578,512	50.62K	Education	Mar 29, 2017
#35	A train ride into Japan's past \| DW Documentary 3.52M views	3.52M 3,518,225	24.27K	Education	Jan 20, 2021
#36	German reunification – a short history \| DW Documentary 3.29M views	3.29M 3,286,675	15.05K	Education	Jan 13, 2017
#37	How cash is becoming a thing of the past \| DW Documentary (Banking documentary) 3.26M views	3.26M 3,263,150	23.30K	Education	Nov 21, 2018
#38	Working online and traveling the world - digital nomads \| DW Documentary 3.26M views	3.26M 3,255,397	43.24K	Education	Feb 09, 2019
#39	The Renaissance - The Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (2/2) \| DW Documentary 3.16M views	3.16M 3,157,106	14.51K	Education	Apr 28, 2019
#40	The social media beauty cult \| DW Documentary 3.03M views	3.03M 3,030,553	33.47K	Education	Aug 08, 2019
#41	Welcome to the 'Nazi village'! \| DW Documentary 3.02M views	3.02M 3,015,945	22.01K	Education	Sep 03, 2018
#42	Amazon, Jeff Bezos and collecting data \| DW Documentary 2.82M views	2.82M 2,817,921	16.84K	Education	May 10, 2019
#43	The deceptive promise of free trade \| DW Documentary 2.72M views	2.72M 2,718,751	20.27K	Education	Jun 06, 2018
#44	Bangladesh - Dawn of Islamism \| DW Documentary 2.56M views	2.56M 2,561,757	36.63K	Education	Apr 17, 2018
#45	The last Kalinga tattoo artist, Whang Od \| DW Documentary 2.51M views	2.51M 2,506,169	31.68K	Education	Jan 20, 2018
#46	Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (2/2) \| DW Documentary 2.50M views	2.50M 2,499,545	26.41K	Education	Jan 13, 2017
#47	Traveling by train in Panama \| DW Documentary 2.20M views	2.20M 2,197,531	10.87K	Education	Feb 01, 2018
#48	Bosnia and Herzegovina: an ethnically divided country \| DW Documentary 2.14M views	2.14M 2,135,017	19.88K	Education	Jan 14, 2018
#49	The New Silk Road, Part 2: From Kyrgyzstan to Duisburg \| DW Documentary 2.05M views	2.05M 2,049,930	15.90K	Education	Jul 20, 2019
#50	Artificial intelligence and its ethics \| DW Documentary 2.02M views	2.02M 2,015,621	10.49K	Education	Aug 14, 2019
#51	Welcome to Bangkok, Thailand \| DW Documentary 1.99M views	1.99M 1,992,154	18.95K	Education	Nov 26, 2017
#52	Thailand and the fallout from mass tourism \| DW Documentary 1.91M views	1.91M 1,909,446	11.86K	Education	Jun 05, 2019
#53	The Russians – An intimate journey through Russia (1/2) \| DW Documentary 1.84M views	1.84M 1,840,245	20.77K	Education	Jun 19, 2020
#54	Thai berry pickers in Sweden \| DW Documentary 1.81M views	1.81M 1,814,493	16.82K	Education	Aug 29, 2020
#55	How to survive in Los Angeles - without a home? \| DW Documentary 1.60M views	1.60M 1,603,408	8.76K	Education	Feb 19, 2018
#56	Clandestine employment of Indians in Italy \| DW Documentary (Migrant documentary) 1.58M views	1.58M 1,577,458	12.53K	Education	Oct 15, 2018
#57	The rich, the poor and the trash \| DW Documentary (Inequality documentary) 1.55M views	1.55M 1,549,476	15.68K	Education	Jun 08, 2018
#58	Will Germany's car industry survive? \| DW Documentary 1.43M views	1.43M 1,425,047	15.58K	Education	Sep 03, 2019
#59	Fighting the Islamists - Germany's Deployment in Mali \| DW Documentary 1.12M views	1.12M 1,124,196	9.43K	Education	Feb 05, 2017

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