The Best Industrial Revolution Documentaries

History - 45 free documentaries about the industrial revolution.

Start with The Gruesome Life Of A Victorian Match Girl (43 min, Absolute History), then What Was Life Really Like In A Victorian Workhouse? (91 min, Absolute History). All 45 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on the industrial revolution is The Industrial Revolution by T. S. Ashton.

• The Gruesome Life Of A Victorian Match Girl | History Of Britain (43 min, Absolute History)
• What Was Life Really Like In A Victorian Workhouse? | Secrets From The Workhouse (91 min, Absolute History)
• The Psychological Torture Of The Victorian Workhouse | Secrets From The Workhouse (46 min, Absolute History)
• The Giant WW2 Factories Of The United States | War Factories (169 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• War Factories: A Tour Of The Nazi War Machine (130 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• What Was Life Really Like In A Victorian Workhouse? | Secrets From The Workhouse (46 min, Absolute History)
• War Factories | Episode 4: General Motors (43 min, Free Documentary - History)
• How The Industrial Revolution Changed Women's Lives | Edwardian Farm (59 min, Absolute History)
• War Factories | Episode 2: Krupp (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Cambodia's Mega Canal Has Vietnam Worried: What Does It Mean For The Mekong? | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Extreme Constructions: The Suez Canal (52 min, Free Documentary)
• How These Children Became Trapped In The Victorian Workhouse (47 min, Absolute History)
• Why Victorian Workhouses Were Even Worse Than You Think (47 min, Absolute History)
• The Kiel Canal: The busiest artificial waterway in the world (26 min, DW Documentary)
• War Factories | Episode 3: Vickers (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Are We Living Through Another Industrial Revolution? | Tech Effect (139 min, Spark)
• Lost Stories From Victorian England's Brutal Workhouses | Secrets From The Workhouse (46 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• What Was It Like To Work In A 19th Century Textile Mill? | Building Ireland (48 min, Absolute History)
• Microchips and Highly Sensitive Sensors | Mega Factories: Bosch (46 min, Free Documentary)
• The British Factories That Built A WW2 Powerhouse (44 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Baku: How Oil Factories Strategically Defined WW2 (44 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• War Factories | Episode 8: Russia (44 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Fashion Factories Undercover (50 min, Real Stories)
• Panama Canal: The Brutal Conditions Endured To Build A Marvel | Super Structures Episode 7 (52 min, Spark)
• Fred Mills: The World's Most Remote Buildings (11 min, The B1M)
• Panama - Navigating crises at the canal (42 min, DW Documentary)
• 2+ Hours Of Wartime Factories To Fall Asleep To (130 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Was It Possible To Escape Life In A Victorian Workhouse? | Secrets From The Workhouse (46 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• How A Frozen Chicken And An Apple Led To The Industrial Revolution (29 min, Absolute History)
• What Was Manchester Like During The Industrial Revolution? (25 min, Absolute History)
• Suez Canal Expansion: The Unprecedented Project To Widen The Canal (52 min, Spark)
• Why Russia Tried to Block This Canal (9 min, The B1M)
• Egypt's $23BN Suez Canal on Rails (9 min, The B1M)
• Fred Mills and Sir Richard Branson: Inside Hyperloop's First Passenger Test (13 min, The B1M)
• Why Nazi Germany Lost The War Of The Factories (44 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The €7BN Mega-Canal That Will Reshape Europe (15 min, The B1M)
• The Race to Save the Panama Canal (10 min, The B1M)
• How Canals Played An Important Role In The History Of London (23 min, Our History)
• Transforming the Suez Canal: Revolutionizing Trade Routes | From Vision to Reality (52 min, Moconomy)
• Surviving Operation Barbarossa: How Moving Entire Factories Saved The USSR From Collapse (91 min, Absolute History)
• How Kerala's Maravanthuruthu Swapped Sewage-Filled Canals For Sustainability | A Street Like This (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Transforming the Suez Canal: Revolutionizing Trade Routes | The Impossible Engineering (52 min, Moconomy)
• Suez Canal Expansion: The Most Epic Construction Project To Widen The Canal (52 min, Wonder)
• Too Young for the Mill | How We Used To Live (19 min, Our History)
• Fred Mills Meets Crossrail’s CEO (17 min, The B1M)

Top-Rated Books About The Industrial Revolution

1. The Industrial Revolution by T. S. Ashton - View on Amazon
2. The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen - View on Amazon
3. Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert - View on Amazon
4. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. Industry and empire by Eric Hobsbawm - View on Amazon