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• 480 Filmmakers Reveal the 100 Greatest Movies in the World, 08 Dec 2022 in Film
• The 30 Greatest Films Ever Made: A Video Essay, 07 Dec 2022 in Film
• How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains, 06 Dec 2022 in History&Museums&Writing
• The 100 Greatest Films of All Time According to 1,639 Film Critics & 480 Directors: See the Results of the Once-a-Decade Sight and Sound Poll, 02 Dec 2022 in Film
• A Chinese Painter Specializing in Copying Van Gogh Paintings Travels to Amsterdam & Sees Van Gogh’s Masterpieces for the First Time, 01 Dec 2022 in Art
• See 21 Historic Films by Lumière Brothers, Colorized and Enhanced with Machine Learning (1895-1902), 30 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• 8th Century Englishwoman Scribbled Her Name & Drew Funny Pictures in a Medieval Manuscript, According to New Cutting-Edge Technology, 29 Nov 2022 in Books&History
• Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor, 28 Nov 2022 in History
• A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More, 25 Nov 2022 in History
• When Salvador Dalí Dressed — and Angrily Demolished — a Department Store Window in New York City (1939), 25 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• A Relaxing, ASMR Re-Creation of People Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1820s, 23 Nov 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• The First Kiss Captured on Film: Behold “The Kiss” Shot by Photography Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (1887), 22 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• Why Recent Decades All Feel Culturally the Same, and Why Mark Fisher Thought Capitalism Was to Blame, 22 Nov 2022 in Politics
• Banksy Spray Paints Murals in War-Torn Ukraine, 21 Nov 2022 in Art&Politics
• Did Psychedelic Mushrooms Appear in Medieval Christian Art?: A Video Essay, 18 Nov 2022 in Art&History&Psychology&Religion
• Watch Videos for 10 Songs on Brian Eno’s Brand New Album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, 17 Nov 2022 in Music
• A Tour of Studio Ghibli’s Brand New Theme Park in Japan, Which Re-Creates the Worlds of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Other Classics, 16 Nov 2022 in Animation&Travel
• When the World Got Introduced to the Amazing Compact Disc (CD) in 1982, 16 Nov 2022 in Music&Technology
• The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary”, 15 Nov 2022 in Books
• How to Argue Effectively: Harvard Negotiation Expert Shares Techniques for Arguing Effectively, Especially About Politics, 14 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Behold Illustrations of Every Shakespeare Play Created by Artificial Intelligence, 11 Nov 2022 in Art&Technology&Theatre
• The Rise and Fall of Concorde, the Midcentury Supersonic Jetliner That Still Inspires Awe Today, 10 Nov 2022 in History&Technology&Travel
• Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art, 10 Nov 2022 in Art&History
• The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle, 09 Nov 2022 in Books&History&Technology
• Around the World in 1896: 40 Minutes of Real Footage Lets You Visit Paris, New York, Venice, Rome, Budapest & More, 08 Nov 2022 in Film&History
• The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers, 07 Nov 2022 in Design&Music
• The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to Mœbius and Hergé, 04 Nov 2022 in Comics/Cartoons
• Michael Pollan, Sam Harris & Others Explain How Psychedelics Can Change Your Mind, 02 Nov 2022 in Psychology
• Kierkegaard on Why We All Misunderstand the True Meaning of Love: An Animated Explanation, 01 Nov 2022 in Life&Philosophy
• How a Mondrian Painting Has Accidentally Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years, 31 Oct 2022 in Art
• Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio, 28 Oct 2022 in Radio
• See Metropolis‘ Scandalous Dance Scene Colorized, Enhanced, and Newly Soundtracked, 27 Oct 2022 in Film
• What Sex Was Like in Medieval Times?: Historians Look at How People Got It On in the Dark Ages, 26 Oct 2022 in History
• Discover Nüshu, a 19th-Century Chinese Writing System That Only Women Knew How to Write, 25 Oct 2022 in History&Language&Writing
• There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You?, 25 Oct 2022 in Psychology
• The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy, 24 Oct 2022 in Archives&Politics
• The French Designed a Fake Replica of Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I, 21 Oct 2022 in History
• What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says, 19 Oct 2022 in History&Language
• Why Quentin Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies, 19 Oct 2022 in Film
• DALL-E, the New AI Art Generator, Is Now Open for Everyone to Use, 18 Oct 2022 in Art&Technology
• How Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Went from 80s Pop Smash to Bastion of Internet Culture: A Short Documentary, 14 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago, 13 Oct 2022 in Animation&History
• Simone de Beauvoir Speaks on American TV (in English) About Feminism, Abortion & More (1976), 13 Oct 2022 in Philosophy&Television
• Watch Vintage Videos Capturing Life in Japan from the 1960s Through Today, 12 Oct 2022 in Film&History&Travel
• How to Predict What the World Will Look Like in 2122: Insights from Futurist Peter Schwartz, 10 Oct 2022 in Harvard&History&Technology
• 1950s Pulp Comic Adaptations of Ray Bradbury Stories Getting Republished, 07 Oct 2022 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times, 06 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• When a Modern Director Makes a Fake Old Movie: A Video Essay on David Fincher’s Mank, 06 Oct 2022 in Film
• Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life, 05 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• Lizzo Plays James Madison’s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute, 03 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map, 30 Sep 2022 in Maps
• What It’s Like to Work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Office Building, 30 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Meet the Hyperpolyglots, the People Who Can Mysteriously Speak Up to 32 Different Languages, 29 Sep 2022 in Language
• When Marlon Brando Refused the Oscar for His Role in The Godfather to Support the Rights of Native Americans (1973), 28 Sep 2022 in History&Television
• The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands, 28 Sep 2022 in History
• The Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History, 27 Sep 2022 in Maps
• Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatments for Stress, Anxiety & Depression, 26 Sep 2022 in Museums&Psychology
• How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt: A Visual Exploration of a 20-Year Project, 26 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Why Mapmakers Once Thought California Was an Island, 23 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Goodbye to the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s Strangest and Most Utopian Apartment Building, 22 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Never Too Small: Architects Give Tours of Tiny Homes in Paris, Melbourne, Milan, Hong Kong & Beyond, 21 Sep 2022 in Architecture
• Getting Dressed Over the Centuries: 35 Videos Show How Women & Men Put on Clothes During Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times, 20 Sep 2022 in Fashion&History
• 5 Ways to Build an Alzheimer’s-Resistant Brain: Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Explains, 19 Sep 2022 in Life&Neuroscience
• The Evolution of the Electric Guitar: An Introduction to Every Major Variety of the Instrument That Made Rock-and-Roll, 16 Sep 2022 in History&Music&Technology
• The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century, 15 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror Film & Brought Expressionism to the Screen (1920), 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s, 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• The Beauty & Ingenuity of the Pantheon, Ancient Rome’s Best-Preserved Monument: An Introduction, 13 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• The First Transit Map: a Close Look at the Subway-Style Tabula Peutingeriana of the 5th-Century Roman Empire, 12 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Hear Queen Elizabeth II Give Her Very First Speech to the British People, During World War II (1940), 09 Sep 2022 in History
• See the First 8K Footage of the Titanic, the Highest-Quality Video of the Shipwreck Yet, 08 Sep 2022 in History
• An AI-Generated Painting Won First Prize at a State Fair & Sparked a Debate About the Essence of Art, 07 Sep 2022 in Art&Technology
• Listen to Music Playlists to Help You Study Like Nietzsche, Socrates, Kant & Other Great Thinkers, 07 Sep 2022 in Music&Philosophy
• The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story, 06 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films: Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers, 02 Sep 2022 in Film
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Creates Images to Match the Lyrics of Iconic Songs: David Bowie’s “Starman,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” & More, 01 Sep 2022 in Music&Technology
• The Atomic Café: The Cult Classic Documentary Made Entirely Out of Nuclear Weapons Propaganda from the Cold War (1982), 31 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Christopher Hitchens’ Final Interview: Hear the Newly-Released Uncut Conversation with Richard Dawkins, 30 Aug 2022 in Religion&Science
• How Cinema Inspired Edward Hopper’s Great Paintings, and How Edward Hopper Inspired Great Filmmakers, 29 Aug 2022 in Art&Film
• Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More, 26 Aug 2022 in Archives&Art&Museums
• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988), 25 Aug 2022 in Religion&Television
• Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer, 24 Aug 2022 in Food & Drink
• Pink Lady and Jeff: Japan’s Biggest Pop Musicians Star in One of America’s Worst-Reviewed TV Shows (1980), 23 Aug 2022 in History&Music&Television
• How Salman Rushdie Has Lived and Written Under the Threat of Death: a Free Documentary, 22 Aug 2022 in Current Affairs&Literature&Television
• What Made Better Call Saul a Master Class in Visual Storytelling: A Video Essay, 19 Aug 2022 in Television
• “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”: A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives, 18 Aug 2022 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Technology
• The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon, 17 Aug 2022 in Art&History
• Orson Welles Reads the Abolitionist John Brown’s Final Speech After Being Sentenced to Death, 17 Aug 2022 in History
• What Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unusual Windows Tell Us About His Architectural Genius, 16 Aug 2022 in Architecture&History
• Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002), 12 Aug 2022 in Film&Music
• All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist, 11 Aug 2022 in Music&Television
• The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966), 10 Aug 2022 in History&Photography
• When Helen Keller Met Charlie Chaplin and Taught Him Sign Language (1919), 09 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Damien Hirst’s NFT Experiment Comes to an End: How Many Buyers Chose Digital Tokens Over Physical Artworks?, 09 Aug 2022 in Art&Technology
• What a Disney Version of A Clockwork Orange Would Look Like, 04 Aug 2022 in Animation&Film
• The Last Cigarette Commercial Ever Aired on American TV (1971), 02 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• As Star Trek‘s Lieutenant Uhura, Nichelle Nichols (RIP) Starred in “TV’s First Interracial Kiss” in 1968, 01 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary Rewatch Cult-Classic Movies on Their New Video Archives Podcast, 29 Jul 2022 in Film&Podcasts
• Scenes from The Wizard of Oz Remastered in Brilliant 4K Detail: Behold the Work of a Creative YouTuber, 29 Jul 2022 in Film
• Visit Great Cities in the 1920s in Restored Color Film: New York City, London, Berlin, Paris, Venice & More, 28 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Watch 70+ Soviet Films Free Online, Courtesy of Mosfilm, the Hollywood of the Soviet Union, 27 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• When Erik Satie Took a Picture of Debussy & Stravinsky (June 1910), 25 Jul 2022 in History&Music&Photography
• Free Documentaries from Spain Let You Watch the Traditional Making of Wine, Cheese, Churros, Honey & More, 22 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965, 21 Jul 2022 in History&Music
• The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians, Actors, Artists & Writers Paying Tribute to Birds: Watch Performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Beck, 20 Jul 2022 in Music&Nature
• A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, 20 Jul 2022 in Architecture&History
• Japanese Restaurants Show You How to Make Traditional Dishes in Meditative Videos: Soba, Tempura, Udon & More, 19 Jul 2022 in Food & Drink&Travel
• Never-Seen Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind an Earlier Painting, 18 Jul 2022 in Art&History
• 30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New Getty Images Archive, 15 Jul 2022 in Archives&History&Photography
• John Waters’ Comical & Inspiring Commencement Speech: “You Too Can Fail Upwards” (2022), 13 Jul 2022 in Art&Film
• The First Photographs Taken by the Webb Telescope: See Faraway Galaxies & Nebulae in Unprecedented Detail, 13 Jul 2022 in Astronomy&Technology
• What Americans Ate for Breakfast & Dinner 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes, 12 Jul 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch an 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Free Online, 10 Jul 2022 in Film&Literature
• An Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript, the World’s Most Mysterious Book, 08 Jul 2022 in Books&History
• The Earliest Known Footage of New Orleans Discovered: See a Mardi Gras Parade in 1898, 07 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Titanic Survivor Interviews: What It Was Like to Flee the Sinking Luxury Liner, 07 Jul 2022 in History
• When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Doghouse, His Smallest Architectural Creation (1956), 06 Jul 2022 in Architecture&History
• Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966-67), 05 Jul 2022 in Film
• The Timeline of World War II (Month by Month) Told With Scenes Made from Dozens of WWII Movies, 04 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, 01 Jul 2022 in Animation&Film&Theatre
• Free Online: Watch Stalker, Mirror, and Other Masterworks by Soviet Auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, 29 Jun 2022 in Film
• Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker, 28 Jun 2022 in Film&History
• Marie Curie’s Ph.D. Thesis on Radioactivity–Which Made Her the First Woman in France to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Physics, 27 Jun 2022 in History&Science
• Color Footage of the Liberation of Paris, Shot by Hollywood Director George Stevens (1944), 24 Jun 2022 in Film&History
• The Otherworldly Art of William Blake: An Introduction to the Visionary Poet and Painter, 22 Jun 2022 in Art&History&Poetry&Religion
• The Biology of Bonsai Trees: The Science Behind the Traditional Japanese Art Form, 21 Jun 2022 in Art&Biology
• Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes Frisson, or Musical Chills, 21 Jun 2022 in Music&Neuroscience
• The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Video Essay, 17 Jun 2022 in Art&History
• Ziggy Stardust Turns 50: Celebrate David Bowie’s Signature Character with a Newly Released Version of “Starman”, 17 Jun 2022 in History&Music
• How Wealthy Women (Like the Mona Lisa) Got Dressed in Renaissance Florence, 16 Jun 2022 in Art&Fashion&History
• Revisit Vintage Issues of Astounding Stories, the 1930s Magazine that Gave Rise to Science Fiction as We Know It, 14 Jun 2022 in Magazines&Sci Fi
• Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: An Animated Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown of the Ancient Chinese Treatise, 13 Jun 2022 in Books&History
• Werner Herzog’s New Novel, The Twilight World, Tells the Story of the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Famously Refused to Surrender, 10 Jun 2022 in Books&History
• Watch the First Movie Ever Streamed on the Net: Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991), 09 Jun 2022 in Film&Technology
• When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995), 08 Jun 2022 in Music
• Ray Liotta (RIP) Talks About His Most Memorable Performances: Something Wild, Goodfellas, Field of Dreams, and More, 06 Jun 2022 in Film
• Susan Sontag’s Commencement Address Advice: “Pay Attention. It Connects You With Others. It Makes You Eager. Stay Eager.”, 06 Jun 2022 in Life
• Dying from Overwork: Disturbing Looks Inside Japan’s Karoshi and China’s “996” Work System, 02 Jun 2022 in Business&Economics&Health
• Machiavelli’s The Prince Explained in an Illustrated Film, 02 Jun 2022 in Books&History&Politics
• How the Byzantine Empire Rose, Fell, and Created the Glorious Hagia Sophia: A History in Ten Animated Minutes, 01 Jun 2022 in Animation&Architecture&History