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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!

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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  1. Background image for Heroines
    8.4/10(191 votes)

    #1 - 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."

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Dangerous Minds
    8.0/10(100 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Game Changers
    7.8/10(118 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Sex
    7.8/10(131 votes)

    #4 - Sex

    S5:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Civil Rights
    8.4/10(132 votes)

    #5 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Underdogs
    8.1/10(100 votes)

    #6 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Drunk Mystery
    8.2/10(128 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for World War II
    7.8/10(89 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Heists
    8.1/10(92 votes)

    #9 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Middle Ages
    7.5/10(90 votes)

    #11 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Death
    7.8/10(80 votes)

    #12 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Halloween
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Heroines" is the best rated episode of "Drunk History" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 191 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/23/2018. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Dangerous Minds".