Our 10 Most Popular Videos of 2012
Giant snakes, lost footage, secret histories and more in this wrapup of our most watched videos of the year
- By Caroline Lacey
- Smithsonian.com, December 18, 2012
Newest Photos Photo Essays
London's Best Restaurants
An eating tour of London—from Soho to Shoreditch, Bermondsey to Brixton—reveals the best restaurants among the city’s diverse new culinary scene
(11 pictures)
PHOTOS: The Mind-Blowing, Floating, Unmanned Scientific Laboratory
Wave Gliders are about to make scientific exploration a lot cheaper and safer
(3 pictures)
Spotlight
The latest Smithsonian exhibitions showcase Civil War photography, Buddhist figures and Time magazine cover portraits
(5 pictures)
Before There Was Photoshop, These Photographers Knew How to Manipulate an Image
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
(3 pictures)
Most Popular Photo Essays
The 20 Best Small Towns in America of 2012
From the Berkshires to the Cascades, we've crunched the numbers and pulled a list some of the most interesting spots around the country
(21 pictures)
The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013
From the blues to the big top, we’ve picked the most intriguing small towns to enjoy arts and smarts
(21 pictures)
16 Photographs That Capture the Best and Worst of 1970s America
A new exhibit at the National Archives highlights an interesting decade—one that gave rise to the environmental movement and some awkward fashion
(16 pictures)
Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
The notables who planned to sail on the fateful voyage included a world-famous novelist, a radio pioneer and America’s biggest tycoons
(9 pictures)
Comments (9)
nice and simple video presentation about ancient. fantastic
Posted by srinivasan on January 4,2013 | 07:06 AM
2500 lbs? I think the Eiffel Tower weighs in at a little more than 2500 lbs?
Posted by Monte on December 20,2012 | 07:08 PM
The eiffel tower weighs 10,000+ TONS. How are you translating 2,500 pounds to be anywhere near that?
Posted by Ryan on December 20,2012 | 05:16 PM
Am I the only person who hates all the commercials ran before each article ?
Posted by Marvin E Smith on December 20,2012 | 12:17 PM
What a cruel way to kill a beautiful animal, I find it very disturbing
Posted by Claudia on December 20,2012 | 08:28 AM
It's 2012, and you are promoting a video from 1934? Your video is subtitled 'Daring Anglers'?! Looks like a bunch of Goodyear accountants to me. Are you that lacking in creativity that you had to dig up anything with sharks in it to promote on your website? Why promote the torture of an animal from 78 years ago? Someone at Smithsonian.com seems a bit out of touch to me. This is a pathetic video and should be removed.
Posted by Kevin Connor on December 20,2012 | 06:27 AM
These might be your top vids for 2012, but THE top vid is the soldier who returned to find his son (who I believe has cerebral palsy) had learned to walk and walks toward him.
Posted by Ddrhl on December 20,2012 | 05:03 AM
This video might be popular but, even though I have a shark phobia, is one of the most disgustingly cruel films of cruelty to animals I have ever seen and i feel sad that those people could "glory" in it
Posted by jaques on December 20,2012 | 03:08 AM
Drop a penicillian bomb there and no more crabs...
Posted by Brian G. on December 19,2012 | 02:49 AM