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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Drunk History Season 3 Episode 10 - New Mexico
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - New Mexico

    S3:E10

    Popé leads the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers in 1680, Boy Scouts cofounder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, the true story of the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 1 - Heroines
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Heroines

    S5:E1

    Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 10 - Animals
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Animals

    S5:E10

    A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 13 - Halloween
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Halloween

    S5:E13

    A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 1 - New Jersey
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #5 - New Jersey

    S3:E1

    Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 13 - Space
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Space

    S3:E13

    Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science, and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Drunk History Season 4 Episode 9 - Hamilton
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Hamilton

    S4:E9

    Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 8 - World War II
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - World War II

    S5:E8

    A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 2 - Dangerous Minds
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Dangerous Minds

    S5:E2

    Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 3 - Game Changers
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Game Changers

    S5:E3

    Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichols brings the civil rights movement to space.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 5 - Civil Rights
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Civil Rights

    S5:E5

    British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.

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  12. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 6 - Underdogs
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Underdogs

    S5:E6

    Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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  13. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 9 - Heists
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Heists

    S5:E9

    An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.

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  14. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 12 - Death
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Death

    S5:E12

    Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body, and an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.

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  15. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 4 - Spies
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Spies

    S3:E4

    Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II (and becomes the first woman in the C.I.A) and children's books' author Roald Dahl serves as a debonair British spy.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 5 - Cleveland
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Cleveland

    S3:E5

    Wayne Wheeler leads the Prohibition charge, Dorothy Fuldheim paves the way for women in journalism, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 6 - Games
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Games

    S3:E6

    Milton Bradley jumpstarts the board game industry, Roger Sharpe fights for pinball legalization in 1970s New York City, and Bobby Fischer becomes the World Chess Champion.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 7 - Oklahoma
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Oklahoma

    S3:E7

    Kentucky Daisy claims land for the ladies, Gordon Cooper goes on a pioneering space mission, and former slave Bass Reeves becomes the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 9 - Los Angeles
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Los Angeles

    S3:E9

    The LAPD is formed to stop the city from devolving into chaos, Rin Tin Tin becomes a global superstar, and William Mulholland figures out how to bring water to Los Angeles.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 11 - Inventors
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Inventors

    S3:E11

    Alexander Graham Bell beats Elisha Gray to the patent office for the telephone, Thomas Edison endeavors to launch a filmmaking monopoly.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 12 - Las Vegas
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Las Vegas

    S3:E12

    Bugsy Siegel bets his life on a Las Vegas casino, while the Moulin Rouge breaks the color barrier, Sin City's origins are a popularity contest for J.T. McWilliams and William Clark.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 7 - Drunk Mystery
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Drunk Mystery

    S5:E7

    Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 2 - Miami
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Miami

    S3:E2

    Actor Clark Gable joins the U.S Air Force during World War II, Ponce de León quarrels with Diego Colón (son of Christopher Columbus) in the 1500s and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami in the 1970s.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Drunk History Season 3 Episode 3 - New Orleans
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - New Orleans

    S3:E3

    Pirate Jean Laffite helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Drunk History Season 5 Episode 11 - The Middle Ages
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #25 - The Middle Ages

    S5:E11

    Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Best Episodes Summary

"New Mexico" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/3/2015. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Heroines".