About Indy Neidell
Born 1967. Indy Neidell is an American youTuber, historian, documentarian, presenter and television producer.
Career Early career During 2021, the TimeGhost History YouTube channel revealed information about Neidell's career prior to hosting Watch Sunday Baseball through posts in the Community section. He met Spartacus Olsson around the year 2000 at a bar on the island of Mallorca and they worked together on several media projects. In addition, Neidell played with Swedish musician Moneybrother for several years.
Mediakraft and The Great War series Neidell was approached by Mediakraft, the producers of The Great War, to host the series after they saw a series of videos he had produced between May and September 2013 about the history of baseball, entitled Watch Sunday Baseball. The Great War spin-off YouTube channel "It's History" also featured Neidell as a guest host for episodes on famous military campaigns.
The Great War project officially ended on 11 November 2018, exactly 100 years after the signing of the Armistice at Compiègne which formally ended all hostilities in the First World War. Neidell stated in his finale video that the channel will continue to release some episodes about events following the First World War. As for himself, Neidell has moved on to focus on other projects, such as the aforementioned World War II series.
TimeGhost History Neidell would launch the TimeGhost History YouTube channel in June 2017 with Spartacus Olsson, the creator of The Great War and the producer of it for its first two years. The first feature was day-by-day coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 55 years to the day after the event. The group returned to cover the event in more detail beginning in June 2020 in their The Cuban Missile Crisis Day by Day series. In April 2018, they launched the "Between 2 Wars" series to recap the Interwar period. During September 2020, TimeGhost announced in a YouTube video on their channel that a second season of Between 2 Wars would be launched; named "Zeitgeist" with the first episode being released in October 2020.
World War Two With The Great War project coming to a close in November 2018, Indy Neidell and Spartacus Olsson prepared for an equivalent YouTube project focusing on World War II, which they would produce themselves through their own TimeGhost channel (unlike The Great War) with a projected start date for 1 September 2018. Accounting for the war's longer duration and larger scope for this independent project without the participation of Mediakraft Networks, it is a collaboration of various channels: TimeGhost will focus on a weekly series on the general historical events of the war in the European and Pacific Theatres of the war. To raise the money need for the project, a successful Kickstarter campaign was launched which raised $63,816 (€54,380). With those funds available, a new studio was built from the ground up in its own building and arrangements were made with media providers such as Reuters News Service for archival footage.
The series also has an Instagram account which runs parallel to it and follows the events of World War II on a day-by-day basis. The series also has a Twitter account which follows the events of the World War II, with discussions on relevant parallels drawn between World War II and the present as well as myth-busting common misconceptions. As of 15 August 2024, the YouTube channel has received more than 308 million views and has over 1.12 million subscribers.
The World War II project officially ended on September 2, 2024, exactly 79 years after the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender which ended World War II.
Sabaton In February 2019, Neidell teamed up with Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton for a project called Sabaton History, for which he is the host and writer. The series documents the historical events surrounding the band's songs. He also portrayed T. E. Lawrence in the music video for Sabaton's song "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and Adrian Carton de Wiart in the music video for their song "The Unkillable Soldier".
The Korean War On June 25, 2024, Neidell launched the third real-time series, this time covering the Korean War. He has dual citizenship of the United States and Sweden. Neidell is a member of the European chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research and a supporter of the Houston Astros.
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Who is Indy Neidell?
American historian, actor and YouTube personality
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Indy Neidell was born on 28 September 1967 in Pennsylvania.
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Indy Neidell is a youTuber, historian, documentarian, presenter and television producer.
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Indy Neidell is American.
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