American Experience | PBS YouTube channel thumbnail
American Experience | PBS
Subscribers 536K
Videos 1.2K
Views 90.5M

Channels Like American Experience | PBS

American Experience | PBS covers American history and major historical events through in-depth documentaries and historical profiles, leveraging keywords like history, documentary, american history, civil rights movement, and presidents. The channel publishes long-form, full documentary videos and has a substantial catalog (about 1200 videos) with recent titles such as The Eugenics Crusade and Stonewall Uprising, indicating a documentary-first, in-depth deep-dive style. Uploads appear infrequent (average around 0.0 uploads/week) but each video garners high engagement, with recent views averaging near 1M per video.

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We found 47 YouTube channels similar to American Experience | PBS

CrashCourse YouTube channel thumbnail
#1

83% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 34
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
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Both target broad audiences with educational history content and show strong alignment on searches related to US civil rights history, American social reform, and industrial America history, though CrashCourse adopts a rapid-paced, lecture-style format while American Experience is documentary-focused.

HISTORY YouTube channel thumbnail
#2

64% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M
Videos 11K
Views 5.0B
Appearances 25
SERP 50%
Similarity 73%
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Both channels publish documentary-style explorations of American history, including US civil rights history and civic rights movements, with considerable overlap in searches and substantial content alignment in presenting historical narratives.

Daily Dose Documentary YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 37.5K
Videos 1.2K
Views 9.9M
Appearances 12
SERP 30%
Similarity 78%
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Shares interest in industrial America and labor history, aligning with searches on those topics, but emphasizes shorter documentary storytelling which differs from American Experience’s longer, in-depth treatments.

Heimler's History YouTube channel thumbnail
#4
Heimler's History

57% relevance

Subscribers 1.2M
Videos 746
Views 199.9M
Appearances 21
SERP 38%
Similarity 70%
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Targets US civil rights history, American social reform, and industrial America history similarly to American Experience, though Heimler’s focus leans more toward study help and analysis rather than long-form documentary storytelling.

Mr. Beat YouTube channel thumbnail
#5

56% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 906
Views 363.3M
Appearances 11
SERP 29%
Similarity 75%
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Covers US political history and immigration policy history with searches overlapping American Experience’s realm, but Mr. Beat often uses a more opinionated, explainer-oriented style versus American Experience’s documentary approach.

Vox YouTube channel thumbnail
#6

54% relevance

Subscribers 12.7M
Videos 2K
Views 3.8B
Appearances 10
SERP 27%
Similarity 72%
industrial america history us supreme court cases history american political history

Shares interest in industrial America history and US political history through explainers and historical context, yet Vox tends to blend multimedia journalism and shorter-form analysis rather than traditional long-form docu-series.

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Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include CrashCourse (83% match) and HISTORY (64% match) as the top two. They share overlapping queries with American Experience | PBS such as us civil rights history, american social reform, and industrial america history for CrashCourse, and american history documentaries, us civil rights history, and civic rights movements for HISTORY. Daily Dose Documentary (59% match) and Heimler's History (57% match) also align on topics like industrial america history, eugenics movement history, and labor history, while Mr. Beat (56% match) aligns on us supreme court cases history and american political history. American Experience | PBS has 536K subscribers, whereas CrashCourse leads with 16.9M and HISTORY with 15.2M, indicating a large gap in audience size but similar topical focus on American history and civil rights. The overlap in queries suggests competition for viewers seeking historical documentaries and civics-oriented content.

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#7 52% Black History in Two Minutes or so 72% 36.4K 22% 5
#8 51% Pursuit of History 74% 42.9K 18% 7
#9 51% WatchMojo.com 69% 25.9M 25% 11
#10 49% Free Documentary 75% 5.7M 11% 2
#11 49% TED-Ed 66% 22.4M 22% 8
#12 48% Beginning To Now 72% 296K 11% 3
#13 48% History on Maps 74% 391K 9% 2
#14 47% Equal Justice Initiative 71% 32.9K 12% 3
#15 47% Real History 74% 507K 6% 3
#16 47% Wild America 71% 101K 12% 7
#17 46% National Geographic 69% 25.9M 13% 5
#18 46% NBC News Learn 72% 40.5K 8% 5
#19 46% Fair For All 72% 11.7K 8% 2
#20 46% National Constitution Center 72% 66.3K 9% 4
#21 46% Hip Hughes (HipHughes) 72% 321K 9% 1
#22 46% Biography 71% 1.1M 9% 2
#23 46% Simple History 69% 5.1M 11% 3
#24 46% TDC 69% 1.1M 10% 4
#25 46% The New York Times 71% 5.1M 7% 1
#26 46% Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) 71% 2.4K 7% 1
#27 45% Spark 70% 2.0M 8% 4
#28 45% TED 70% 27.2M 7% 3
#29 45% ABC News 68% 19.4M 10% 4
#30 45% BayStateHistory 69% 9.4K 9% 1
#31 44% BBC Three 68% 2.4M 9% 1
#32 44% The American Rewind 66% 1.4K 11% 2
#33 44% Mississippi Public Broadcasting 68% 48.8K 7% 3
#34 44% Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States 66% 105K 10% 4
#35 43% UC Davis 68% 52.7K 7% 3
#36 43% Law&Crime Network 68% 7.5M 6% 2
#37 43% Crayon Capital 68% 182K 7% 1
#38 43% PBS NewsHour 64% 5.2M 12% 4
#39 43% Crime & Ruin 67% 4.2K 7% 1
#40 43% Nate & Hila 67% 2.9K 7% 1
#41 43% WIRED 67% 12.8M 6% 3
#42 42% Geo History 66% 1.0M 7% 1
#43 42% CNN 64% 19.3M 9% 4
#44 42% iheartny2001 65% 10.4K 7% 1
#45 42% GPB Education 64% 61.2K 9% 4
#46 41% TIME 63% 1.5M 8% 3
#47 37% HUB Scuola 56% 397K 7% 1

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to American Experience | PBS?

CrashCourse — 83% match, 16.9M subscribers; HISTORY — 64% match, 15.2M subscribers; Daily Dose Documentary — 59% match, 37.5K subscribers. All three are history-focused channels that feature documentary-style content and educational videos.

What type of content does American Experience | PBS make?

American Experience | PBS makes documentary-style history content, as shown by titles like Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal, The Perfect Crime, Fly With Me, and Stonewall Uprising. The channel uploads infrequently, with an average of about 0.0 uploads per week, and videos average roughly 991.5K views.

How do we determine which channels are similar to American Experience | PBS?

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