For history creatorsLaunching soon

History videos that don't look like every other AI history channel.

Period footage from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Internet Archive, Europeana, and Wikimedia Commons, picked for the scene, not pulled from a stock-clip drawer. Scripts grounded in primary sources, not paraphrased Wikipedia. 12 narrator personas so two channels never sound the same.

Built for the faceless history channel that wants to look like it did the reading, because it did.

See plans See the gallery

What gets in the way, and what we do about it

Every AI history channel uses the same stock B-roll and reads like paraphrased Wikipedia.
Scripts are grounded in primary sources, and the footage is period material picked for the scene, not pulled from a generic stock drawer.
Finding archival footage and keeping the attribution straight eats your whole week.
The footage step pulls from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Internet Archive, Europeana and Wikimedia Commons automatically, and tracks the credit for you.
Two videos from the same tool sound like the same narrator reading off a card.
Twelve narrator personas, so the channel you build has a voice of its own and two history channels never sound the same.

How it works

01Type your topicOne prompt and a format. Documentary or listicle, your call.
02Walk awayCueTheScene writes the script, pulls period footage from public archives, records the voiceover, and builds the captions and a thumbnail.
03Review only if you want toEvery scene is editable. Tighten a line, swap a clip, regenerate a bit you do not like, or let it run end to end.
04PublishSend it straight to YouTube, or download the file and post it yourself.

What this niche earns

£4 to £12 per 1,000 views

History tends to earn a steady RPM on YouTube. Yours depends on your audience, video length and ad placement, but the typical band looks like this.

Where the footage comes from

Library of Congress
National Archives
Internet Archive
Europeana
Wikimedia Commons

Proof

We have made history videos for years, so we know this audience.

Top-performing video on our founder's WW2 channel12,945 viewsFrom our founder's history channel. Proof we know the audience — not a CueTheScene-generated example. We'll replace these with CueTheScene-generated history videos once the first sprint clears.
WW2 channel video1,665 viewsFounder-channel proof, not CueTheScene output.
WW2 channel video482 viewsFounder-channel proof, not CueTheScene output.
WW2 channel video477 viewsFounder-channel proof, not CueTheScene output.
WW2 channel video467 viewsFounder-channel proof, not CueTheScene output.

See the gallery for this niche. First picks land at launch.

Questions creators ask

Do I own the finished video?: Yes. The footage is public-domain or openly licensed and the script and voiceover are yours to publish, monetise and keep.
Can I fix the facts and the script before it goes out?: Every scene opens in the editor. Edit the script, swap a clip, or regenerate a section. Nothing is locked, and nothing publishes without you saying so.
How is this different from the other AI history channels?: Primary-source scripts instead of paraphrased Wikipedia, period footage chosen for the scene, and twelve narrator personas so your channel has its own voice.
How long does one video take?: A full long-form video, script to publish-ready file, lands in roughly 15 to 25 minutes.

Pricing

Pick the plan that fits your output

Every plan ships the full editor, the full footage library, and the full publish path. What changes is how many videos you can ship a month and how many run at once.

Starter

£59/mo

Or £566/yr. Save £142.

Ship 4 polished long-form videos a month — without an editor
Pick the runtime that fits the topic, not the other way round
Captions that mobile viewers can actually read
Push straight to YouTube the second a render lands
Help from a real human inside the day

Creator

£149/mo

Or £1,430/yr. Save £358.

Ship 12 videos a month — three a week without burning out
Two renders cooking at the same time so you stop waiting in line
Tweak any scene without redoing the whole video
Use your own narrator, not ours
Priority help when something goes sideways

Pro

£449/mo

Or £4,310/yr. Save £1,078.

Ship a daily upload without breaking sweat
Three renders at once — outpace any human editor
Run two or three channels off a single plan
Pour in your own script and we handle the rest
Priority help on email and Discord — minutes, not days

Scale

£1,199/mo

Or £11,510/yr. Save £2,878.

Run multiple channels at full tilt without queue waits
Five renders firing in parallel — no batch is too big
Our top output ceiling, around 100 videos a month
A walkthrough with the founder so you ramp in an hour
Direct Slack line — message the people who built it

No free trial. Each video generation costs us real money, so we'd rather charge fairly from day one than burn the budget on tyre-kickers. Cancel any time. Statutory consumer rights apply.

Want the longer story? Read how the pipeline actually works on the blog.