Books They Didn’t Want You to Read

They say knowledge is power — but throughout history, power has tried to silence it.
From empires that burned books to regimes that banned ideas, this video uncovers the dark history of censorship across the world. Why were certain books seen as dangerous? Who decided what people could and couldn’t read? And what does it say about the power of the written word?

We’ll explore stories from Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Imperial China, medieval Europe, and more — where fear of truth led to flames, chains, and silence.

This is the story of books they tried to bury — and why they couldn’t.