Fireworks have played a vital role in celebrations for most of recorded history. Using the bright explosives to honor weddings, festivals, harvests, and even funerals. Fireworks videos fall into two main categories: commercial, and personal. Commercial fireworks explode into fireballs hundreds of yards across, filling the night sky and packing more punch than a tightly packed carton if angry rattlesnakes. Personal fireworks consist of black cats, m-80’s, bottle rockets, husker do’s, husker dont’s, molotav wine coolers, and quarter-sticks. Many of the best fireworks videos focus on accidental use.

Even when an explosive is set off in a controlled way it is naturally chaotic, take away that control and all out anarchy ensues. Such is the case in the dutch fireworks factory video below. Even safe use results in raging infernos like the 16,000 bottle rockets video above. So it’s better just to watch videos of fireworks, at least if you want to keep your hands.