This is a series I made back in 2018, re-released as a single documentary, which always seems a more popular format. This is the story of the 1956 Suez Crisis, when the world faced an international energy supply crisis, politicians warned of repeating the mistakes of 1930s appeasement, and a Russian leader was sending tanks into a European capital to crush hopes of greater freedom... The sort of events that until recently, we might have hoped were consigned to history. You can support the channel, get early access to new videos and vote for future topics here: www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

Suez Crisis was indeed the point where US and USSR told Britain and France they are no longer Super power anymore

Even though these are reuploads of old videos, I love these "All Parts" videos. They make it simpler and also help Epic History reach more people, the quality is simply insane.

as an Egyptian, this is better than studying the whole thing in history class

As an Egyptian it's really bleed my heart💔 At this time, our people in the Canal cities suffered a lot (Ismailia, Suez, and the valiant Port Said). Everyone was volunteering to fight the war, children, women, men, and the elderly. Everyone literally threw themselves into the field of war in defense of our Egypt. In fact, whenever I watch or read something about this, I burst into tears, god bless my Egypt🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

Great walkthrough of the Suez crisis. My grandpa was one of the Danish UN peacekeeping troops sent there. He'd talk in lengths of both the war itself but also the hospitable people of Egypt.

"No nation has friends only interests." - Charles De Gaulle

This is incredible ! Map visualization and original footage from the fifties and in-depth step by step narration ! What a masterpiece :D

In 1956 I was a cadet in my school CCF unit. At about the time the Suez crisis was developing our CCF contingent was at a 2 week annual "camp" at HMS St Vincent in Gosport. HMS ST Vincent was a shore training unit for cadets and boy seaman presumably prior to their assignment as junior seamen on Royal Navy ships. For the first part of our stay there we were the only boys there to experience the Royal Navy services. This included a naked one length swim of the very cold pool before breakfast. During our stay there we visited HMS Dolphin, a submarine depot where we shown on board on one of the vessels. We also visited a Gunnery practice range where we allowed to operate a shore based anti aircraft gun installation (no ammo!). To aid our experience the marine aircraft section provided a real aircraft "attacking" our position from over the horizon. We were to control the gun to follow this target and "shoot it down". We were not very good at that!. Our term at St Vincent was cut short when all boy seamen from the carriers and support vessels in port were transferred to HMS St Vincent. Boy seamen were not permitted on active service. The ships were preparing to leave on the Suez campaign... On our penultimate day at the camp we had a race to climb the flag mast. The race was to touch the "cap" at the top. I think I won that.. ! I am now 83y.o. and the fond memories remain.

Very good documentary film. Britain was never the same following the Sues crisis of 1956. In fact the crisis changed world history.

This was an underrated series of yours. Glad to see it get some more love

The Suez Crisis is the reason we Egyptians have a lot of pride in our country. You won't find a single civilian who's not ready to defend his homeland with anything in any way possible.

Fascinating video! Fills in a big chunk of my missing global history knowledge. Thought it would be boring, but it was shockingly interesting. Excellent use of graphics and historical film clips too!

My takeaway of this was, hey, at least the US and Soviets got to be friends over criticizing both the UK and France.

Although there’s one thing the British did gain from the Suez Crisis… The creation of the Mini Cooper. The Suez Crisis caused oil and fuel prices to sky rocket, which made running a car very expensive. Various manufacturers tried to build smaller cars to make increase fuel efficiency, but they were so small that they weren’t popular. Then Mini came up with a good idea. Instead mounting the engine longitudinally, they mount it transversely. Which in turn allowed them to make the engine bay more compact and make the car big enough to fit four, fully, grown adults inside. And more importantly, it was very fuel efficient. On average the Mini was able to do 56mpg, which is a lot. And to this day, car manufacturers still mount the engines transversely. At least in FWD hatchbacks that’s the case.

One of the rare moments when the US and USSR agreed on something

One million Egyptian workers were digging the canal and 120,000 Egyptians died .

Reminds me of the war documentaries on the history channel I used to watch as a kid when I would visit my grandpa. The quality of this is amazing.

Im so happy that Greece supported Egypt. I would and i am too! Love Egypt from Hellas!!!

This was unbiased, professionally done, interesting, and entertaining. Very good job, crew!

Always enjoy learning about any event referenced in "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Imo, this channel has the best narrator on youtube. He makes the events depicted in these documentaries feel like what they should, and thats major events in world history

A concise and efficient explanation of a very important historical event. Thank you.

14:12 Self-defence 🤣 it seems aggression in Hebrew means self defence

The narrator of this channel is among the best I have ever heard. Not since the days of the history channel in its prime have I heard someone as good. Great production all round as well.

The way the ending was tied up into the consequences was the most crisp explanation i have ever seen! Kudos!

Amazing documentary! Well done. This UKposts channel deserves a millions of viewers.

I had an Egypian friend mention this. It's really messed up we don't talk about this in the US more. I was never told about this, but this video changed my whole perspective on what has happened in the middle east. Great video overall.

The similarities this piece of history has with the news today is remarkable, it’s like history repeating itself.

It's annoying that you've left out one important aspect! The 99 year lease granted to the original suez company had expired and ownership was *supposed * to revert to egypt at this time.Egypt were simply claiming what was rightfully theirs

☠️I am Egyptian from Suez 🇪🇬😉🤟

Good to see that even back then they did the "lets agree about what do to with another country without earing the other country opinion"

How did I just find out about this channel. What a hidden gem!

One of the best history channels I've reached in YT, such an amazing way of learning

Please. Please return the Arabic translation of the episodes of this esteemed channel, which is full of accurate, wonderful and useful information. I wish you lasting success and all the best. My utmost respect and appreciation

My sincere thanks to the makers of this video. Much Appreciated 🙏

My late aunt was a schoolteacher at the time of the War of the Tripartite Aggression. Even before the war broke out, all the schoolteachers and the secondary school students capable of bearing arms in her Cairo district-males and females-had undergone a military education course, including live firearms instruction using the Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle. They were taught range estimation, windage estimation, and shooting at moving targets. They were also taught grenade-throwing, how to prepare and best use Molotov cocktails, and things of that nature. It was a very comprehensive course. Once the war broke out, teachers and students who had passed the course were issued rifles and ammunition to keep in their homes, in the event that the foreign invaders reached Cairo. They were expected to provide assistance to Egyptian Army, National Guard, and Police units in their area as needed. In the event that there were no local Army/NG/Police officers that they could receive orders from, they were ordered to resist invading forces at their own initiative, to the best of their ability, for as long as possible. After the war ended and the threat had receded, the teachers and students returned the firearms and ammunition back to the authorities. Nearly 40 years after the war, when I was just a teenager, I owned a 4.5mm (.177 caliber) air rifle. My aunt had just told me about the military training that she had received in her twenties. I asked her to show me. May Allah be my witness, she proved that she had forgotten nothing from that military training course. Even on a gusty day, she was able to estimate windage like a pro, and even with that weak air rifle of mine, was able to hit consistent groups on the target from both standing and kneeling positions, even at the extreme range of the rifle. Just imagine, a dignified lady, in her late sixties, in a hijab and long dress, having a great time scoring bullseyes, proud that she hadn’t lost her touch even after almost 4 decades, and telling me that she wished that she had a real rifle, so she could teach me how to shoot for real. Truly, it was such an impressive moment, and I’ll never forget this memory of my late aunt. May Allah have mercy upon her soul and grant her Paradise!

I'd heard about this conflict, but I never understood how great of an impact it had. Thanks for a great video that made me curious to read up more on the subject

Dates are different but the same problem seems to be happening today

I really like this documentary, it really shows how important politics are in a war. Even though the British and French had a very decisive military victory, they weren't able to secure political support, and paid the price for it.

The ripple effects of this invasion, being felt well into today, are mind blowing.

The Narrator of these videos Charles Nove is awesome!!! He captivates your ear and locks you into these historic episodes.

So well put together! Hats off, and my gratitude 🙏😃👋❤️

A wonderful channel that deserves all respect, appreciation and pride. Accurate and useful information in a sophisticated and beautiful manner. I wish you lasting success. I have the utmost respect and admiration for your great honor for these wonderful works. I hope you success

My neighbor worked for one of the people that helped in construction of the dam when she was in college in the 60s. (An architect I think) She was surprised I knew about it, or the crisis. I'm not surprised. I don't recall ever hearing more than the name in school prior to my college world history class. Even then, they were only mentioned when briefly discussing who Nasser was with no further details given. I would be surprised if they even mention it at all pre college anymore here in the U.S.

Thanks for the great video, it was quite enjoyable. I'd like to add, following the weapon "purchase" by Egypt from Czechoslovakia as you mentioned, in 1955 Israel signed a deal with France and received 61 air-crafts Dassault Mystère and 66 tanks Sherman M4 and other armored vehicles.

Thanks for making this. This video fills in the some of the missing pieces in my understanding of the history of the middle east.

So basically, Israeli got Britain and France inlvolved to fulfill it's own objective at the expence of their defeat and humiliation.

This work is great. I thank the owner of the channel for this work. The Arabic translation helped me a lot in understanding the meaning of this informative video

Rather appropriate time to re-upload this. Definitely prefer the full version, interesting watch. Your video on Belisarius yesterday was also excellent.

I love your videos and for a non-English speaker your tone and calm voice is more than perfect. Is there any plans to make a docu/series like this but about ww2? I would love to see this by your hand!

The greatest words of respect, praise and appreciation I dedicate to you for this wonderful and distinguished work Thank you for your great giving and effort I wish you lasting success. My utmost respect and appreciation

I appreciate how you give the political context in each region for events. Ie why the Egyptian population wasn't supportive of the monarchy anymore and why America didn't support this. It is amazing for people who weren't alive during this time. I am american and our education is extremely vague on the cold war. Basically just "we almost had nuclear war with the Russians". Kind of talk about Korea. We learn a TAD about Vietnam War. The more I learn about my countries actions and negligence in other regions in the world, the more I understand why its not in our textbooks.

I think this is the best history channel on UKposts. Because somehow i take in all the info so much better than on other channels and it has such quality and is very interesting.

As an Egyptian and a student in the history department, I would like to tell you that I did not study or know a quarter of the information that I learned from this video.

Excellent documentary, well edited, great pace, while still remaining informative.

Yes, putting it all as one is a more substantial package that's more enticing. Excellent content and channel, I hope people contribute a little from time to time to these creators out there, we're lucky to have so much stuff these days.

Fun fact: future Canadian Prime Minister Lester B Pearson won his Nobel Peace Prize during this time for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force in a response to solving the Suez Crisis in 1957!

the narration is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you so much. Having learned that part of history in school, its good to see learn it from a different prospective

There is no better way to start a video on UKposts than to hear the awesome soundtrack used by Epic HistoryTV. At the risk of sounding cheesy the music does sound Epic. Now whenever I read about Napoleon or think of Alexander I expect to hear those deep strings.

This is so awesome. What a wonderful animation, the narration is superb. Love history documentaries of this strong caliber! Bravo

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As a proud Canadian I would like to add the following footnote regarding this historic event. The “Suez Crisis” found its solution when the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson, who had served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1952, won support for sending a United Nations Emergency Force to the region to separate the warring parties. This gained him the Nobel Peace Prize for 1957. Lester Pearson was a historian. In the inter-war years he was employed in Canada's Department of External Affairs. He was sent to Europe, and witnessed both the breakdown of the League of Nations and the outbreak of World War II. During the war he was stationed in Washington, where he worked on preparations for the founding of the United Nations. Many wanted him to be the first Secretary-General, but the Soviet Union was opposed. Instead, Pearson headed the UN committee that recommended the division of Palestine into a Jewish part and an Arab part. In 1948, Lester Pearson became Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs, and he ended his career as Prime Minister in the 1960s. Cheers from 🇨🇦 😊

Amazingly clear and informative. Really enjoyed this. Thanks Epic History!

I have watched many of your videos and i learned a lot from history without reading books.. Thanks so much for your channel... I'm lookinh forward for more uploads..

This video made me very emotional for some reason. Perhaps the realisation that everything must come to an end.

Not all documentaries are created equal. This is one of the better...

Awesome series of world history videos for home-educated kids. My 15 year old son loves these videos. Thank you for these informative videos that truly breathe life into history and keep them coming. We have subscribed and shall keep watching. We would love to see an Epic History TV video, or two, on French Indo-China and the first Indo-China War; our current in-depth world history study.

Super informative and non-bias documentary on the crisis. Well made and done.

It is the first time he entered this channel and I marvel at his incredible format of narrating and explaining the subject, he has a like. There is a small editing error at minute 14:51 that put the flag of the Kingdom of Egypt, when it had already become a republic.

Excellent presentation! Much appreciated!

Can't believe this quality is free on UKposts. Amazing video.

Brilliant. What more can I say. Superb rendition of this event in history. I was 10 years old and remember it vividly in New Zealand.

The best documentary ever! The graphics was insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Way better than history lessons that I learned in Egypt. I got all facts no more and no less. Good job.

A very instructive discussion about the complexities of geo politics and how various actors posture and position themselves in conflicts. One could definitely apply some lessons to current conflicts. Identifying the real interests, and dispatching with the self serving nonsense and misdirection is a skill in short supply of late.

”A total of 156 years, five months and four days have passed. The British Empire came from the sea and went from the sea.“

What a beautiful documentary. Thanks for sharing.

This is truly amazing and unbiased documentary. You should make a series about the Cold (Proxy) War between the USA and USSR.

Fantastic history documentary!!! Thank you for assembling such great footage, and narration!

It cool to see some modern history in this channel, I really appreciate it , keep up the good work

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still following this informative content cheers Frank 😊

A short 27 minute video, and I've got a better foundational understanding of Western / Middle Eastern relations during the past 70 years than from any amount of formal education or (gag) 'news'

Love these "all parts" series, hope you make more even after doing the old vids

a very clear documentary. Slow pace no rush and interesting, 10/10

Eisenhower proved a remarkably prescient President, on multiple fronts. There's a reason he's now ranked by historians as one of the best. Excellent use of soft power in the name of peace.

This is an Excellent Channel! Perfect for History lovers as well!

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Superbly created documentary with perfectly paced unrushed narration.

Great work. I love this video on a not talked enough about subject.

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I was living in Cairo shortly before all this blew up and had to make a fairly brisk exit under armed escort.There were 4 of us and at Cairo airport we were told there was a Comet departing but with only 3 seats and one in the jump seat.My Dad declined and we caught a Brittania out a few hours later. We found out later the Comet had blown up en route !!!

Wow this documentary has the level to be on TV. Very good quality , congrats !

This is great work well done. Keep giving us more history

Amazing documentary, great job.

This is one of those situations where I cannot possibly see the justification for western behavior. The Suez canal was built by Egyptians in Egypt. Bought legally and nationalized. Westerners had no business interfering with any of this.

Excellent work! Many thanks to you for all your efforts.

This is one of the first political stories I remember being conscious of. I found the Pathé News films of the ships in the middle of the desert fascinating. My mum showed me the Suez Canal on a map, after the cinema.

Excellent documentary! Thank you so much.