The Long War: A Documentary Podcast

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The Long War is a cinematic documentary podcast that tells the story of human conflict as one continuous narrative — from the first organized armies of ancient Sumer through to the drone wars of the 21st century. Each episode is a chapter in that story. Each battle, each siege, each campaign is connected to what came before and what followed. The show's central argument is that we are one species perpetually at war with itself, and that understanding why requires following the thread from beginning to present. This isn't a collection of random history episodes. It's a series.

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The Long War: A Documentary Podcast

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The First Soldiers: How Humanity Invented War 07.04.2026 24:53

5,000 years ago, on the sunbaked plains of Southern Iraq, humanity did something it had never done before: it organized. In the series premiere of The Long War , we witness the birth of the first standing armies. From the border disputes of Lagash and Umma to the legendary rise of Sargon of Akkad—the abandoned infant who built the world’s first empire—we trace the moment warfare stopped being a sk...