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The Best Episodes of Drunk History Season 5

Every episode of Drunk History Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Drunk History Season 5!

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great...
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Heroines" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 187 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/23/2018. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Dangerous Minds".

  • Heroines
    8.4/10187 votes

    #1 - Heroines

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dangerous Minds
    8.0/1099 votes

    #2 - Dangerous Minds

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Game Changers
    7.8/10116 votes

    #3 - Game Changers

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sex
    7.8/10129 votes

    #4 - Sex

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2018

    Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gloria Steinem goes undercover in a Playboy Club.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Civil Rights
    8.3/10132 votes

    #5 - Civil Rights

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2018

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Underdogs
    8.1/1099 votes

    #6 - Underdogs

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2018

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Drunk Mystery
    8.2/10128 votes

    #7 - Drunk Mystery

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • World War II
    7.8/1089 votes

    #8 - World War II

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 6/19/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heists
    8.0/1092 votes

    #9 - Heists

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 6/26/2018

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Animals
    7.9/1089 votes

    #10 - Animals

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 7/3/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Middle Ages
    7.5/1089 votes

    #11 - The Middle Ages

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 7/10/2018

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death
    7.8/1079 votes

    #12 - Death

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 7/17/2018

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Halloween
    7.8/1088 votes

    #13 - Halloween

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 7/24/2018

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A