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• Colorful Animation Visualizes 200 Years of Immigration to the U.S. (1820-Present), 28 Jun 2016 in History
• Slavoj Žižek Explains the Artistry of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films: Solaris, Stalker & More, 27 Jun 2016 in Film
• A Wonderful Archive of Historic Transit Maps: Expressive Art Meets Precise Graphic Design, 24 Jun 2016 in Maps
• Hear a 64-Hour Playlist of Sherlock Holmes Stories, With Performances by Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson & Many More, 23 Jun 2016 in Literature&Radio
• Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Švankmajer Is About to Make His Final Feature Film, and You Can Help Produce It, 22 Jun 2016 in Animation&Film
• Andrei Tarkovsky Answers the Essential Questions: What is Art & the Meaning of Life?, 21 Jun 2016 in Film
• 1,000 Vintage Postcards Show Famous Actors Performing Shakespeare’s Plays from 1880 to 1914, 20 Jun 2016 in History&Photography&Theatre
• Hear Ernest Shackleton Speak About His Antarctic Expedition in a Rare 1909 Recording, 17 Jun 2016 in History
• An Animated Intro to the Ideas of Jacques Lacan, “the Greatest French Psychoanalyst of the 20th Century”, 16 Jun 2016 in Philosophy&Psychology
• 100,000 Free Art History Texts Now Available Online Thanks to the Getty Research Portal, 15 Jun 2016 in Art&Books&Web/Tech
• Lena Dunham Shows Why It’s So Damn Hard to Meditate: A Four-Minute Comedy, 14 Jun 2016 in Comedy
• “Forbidden Images,” a Compilation of Scandalous Scenes from the Early Days of Cinema (NSFW in 1926), 13 Jun 2016 in Film&History
• Malcolm Gladwell Has Launched a New Podcast, Revisionist History: Hear the First Episode, 10 Jun 2016 in History&Podcasts
• The First Biopic of Edgar Allan Poe: 1909 Film by D.W. Griffith Shows the Horror Master Writing “The Raven”, 09 Jun 2016 in Film&Literature
• The Books on Young Alan Turing’s Reading List: From Lewis Carroll to Modern Chromatics, 08 Jun 2016 in History&Math&Physics
• Stream 23 Free Documentaries from PBS’ Award-Winning American Experience Series, 07 Jun 2016 in Film&History&Television
• 1,300 Photos of Famous Modern American Homes Now Online, Courtesy of USC, 06 Jun 2016 in Architecture
• Color Footage of America’s First Shopping Mall Opening in 1956: The Birth of a Beloved and Reviled Institution, 03 Jun 2016 in Architecture&History
• Virginia Woolf Watches The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & Writes “The Cinema,” a Seminal Attempt to Understand the Power of Movies (1926), 02 Jun 2016 in Film
• Brian Eno Answers Deep Questions from Music Journalist Dick Flash: The Best Eno Interview You’ll See, 01 Jun 2016 in Comedy&Music
• Get a Sneak Peek of Archangel, the New Comic Book by Cyberpunk Author William Gibson, 31 May 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Life & Literature Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation, 30 May 2016 in Literature
• Ayn Rand Issues 13 Commandments to Filmmakers for Making Good Capitalist Movies (1947), 27 May 2016 in Film
• The Essential Elements of Film Noir Explained in One Grand Infographic, 26 May 2016 in Film
• Stephen King’s The Shining Is Now an Opera, and The Tickets Are All Sold Out, 25 May 2016 in Books&Opera
• Hunter S. Thompson Writes a Blistering, Over-the-Top Letter to Anthony Burgess (1973), 24 May 2016 in Letters
• 10 Digital Editions of Surrealist Journals from Argentina, Chile & Spain (1928–67), 23 May 2016 in Art&Magazines
• 8 Glorious Hours of Dylan Thomas Reading Poetry–His Own & Others’, 20 May 2016 in Poetry
• Werner Herzog Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking, 19 May 2016 in Education&Film
• Please Touch the Art: Watch a Blind Man Experience His Own Portrait for the First Time, 18 May 2016 in Art
• Martin Scorsese Names His Top 10 Films in the Criterion Collection, 17 May 2016 in Film
• The Alchemy of Film Editing, Explored in a New Video Essay That Breaks Down Hannah and Her Sisters, The Empire Strikes Back & Other Films, 16 May 2016 in Film
• Hear the Greatest Hits of Isao Tomita (RIP), the Father of Japanese Electronic Music, 13 May 2016 in Music
• Watch the Pioneering Films of Oscar Micheaux, America’s First Great African-American Filmmaker, 12 May 2016 in Film&History
• What Are the Most Beautifully & Creatively Shot Films of All Time? Cinematographers Pick Their Favorites, 11 May 2016 in Film
• Hear 90+ Episodes of Suspense, the Iconic Golden Age Radio Show Launched by Alfred Hitchcock, 10 May 2016 in Radio
• Learn Calligraphy from Lloyd Reynolds, the Teacher of Steve Jobs’ Own Famously Inspiring Calligraphy Teacher, 09 May 2016 in Art&How to Learn for Free&Television
• Watch “Beer,” a Mind-Warping Animation of Charles Bukowski’s 1971 Poem Honoring His Favorite Drink, 06 May 2016 in Animation&Poetry
• How Japanese Things Are Made in 309 Videos: Bamboo Tea Whisks, Hina Dolls, Steel Balls & More, 05 May 2016 in Technology
• What Happens When a Japanese Woodblock Artist Depicts Life in London in 1866, Despite Never Having Set Foot There, 04 May 2016 in Art&History
• Download 6600 Free Films from The Prelinger Archives and Use Them However You Like, 03 May 2016 in Film&Internet Archive
• The Poetic Harmony of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Filmmaking: A Video Essay, 02 May 2016 in Film
• How Steely Dan Wrote “Deacon Blues,” the Song Audiophiles Use to Test High-End Stereos, 29 Apr 2016 in Music
• The “Brain Dictionary”: Beautiful 3D Map Shows How Different Brain Areas Respond to Hearing Different Words, 28 Apr 2016 in English Language&Science
• Hear Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince,” Performed by Orson Welles & Bing Crosby on Christmas Eve 1944, 27 Apr 2016 in Literature&Radio
• Mesmerizing Animation, Made of Photos from Early-1900s America, Lets You Travel in a Steampunk Time Machine, 26 Apr 2016 in Animation&History
• Franz Kafka: An Animated Introduction to His Literary Genius, 25 Apr 2016 in Literature
• Sell & Spin: The History of Advertising, Narrated by Dick Cavett (1999), 22 Apr 2016 in Business&Television
• Call Me Burroughs: Hear William S. Burroughs Read from Naked Lunch & The Soft Machine in His First Spoken Word Album (1965), 21 Apr 2016 in Literature
• Hear Rufus Wainwright Sing Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Album Featuring Florence Welch, Carrie Fisher, William Shatner & More, 20 Apr 2016 in Literature&Music
• A Huge Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920–2007) Featuring John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart & More, 19 Apr 2016 in Music
• The 100 Most Memorable Shots in Cinema Over the Past 100 Years, 18 Apr 2016 in Film
• The Birth of London’s 1950s Bohemian Coffee Bars Documented in a Vintage 1959 Newsreel, 15 Apr 2016 in Food & Drink&History
• Vincent Price Reads the Poetry of Shelley; Ralph Richardson Reads the Poetry of Coleridge, 14 Apr 2016 in Poetry
• The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue (Over 4 Million Lines in 2,000 Scripts) Reveals Gender Bias Built Into Cinema, 13 Apr 2016 in Film&Gender
• Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience, 12 Apr 2016 in Film&Online Courses
• Hear 22-Year-Old Orson Welles Star in The Shadow, the Iconic 1930s Super Crimefighter Radio Show, 11 Apr 2016 in Radio
• 40,000 Film Posters in a Wonderfully Eclectic Archive: Italian Tarkovsky Posters, Japanese Orson Welles, Czech Woody Allen & Much More, 08 Apr 2016 in Art&Film
• Leonardo da Vinci Draws Designs of Future War Machines: Tanks, Machine Guns & More, 07 Apr 2016 in History&Technology
• Scientists Create a New Rembrandt Painting, Using a 3D Printer & Data Analysis of Rembrandt’s Body of Work, 06 Apr 2016 in Art&Technology
• Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting: Now Free on YouTube, 05 Apr 2016 in Art&How to Learn for Free&Television
• Hear Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest Performed by Sir John Gielgud & Other Legends (1953), 04 Apr 2016 in Theatre
• The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music, 01 Apr 2016 in Math&Music
• 50 Must-See Documentaries, Selected by 10 Influential Documentary Filmmakers, 31 Mar 2016 in Film
• The Met Digitally Restores the Colors of an Ancient Egyptian Temple, Using Projection Mapping Technology, 30 Mar 2016 in Architecture&Art&History
• Glass: The Oscar-Winning “Perfect Short Documentary” on Dutch Glassmaking (1958), 29 Mar 2016 in Film
• Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics (1855), 28 Mar 2016 in Health&History&Science
• Hayao Miyazaki’s Sketches Showing How to Draw Characters Running: From 1980 Edition of Animation Magazine, 25 Mar 2016 in Animation&Comics/Cartoons
• Quentin Tarantino Picks the 12 Best Films of All Time; Watch Two of His Favorites Free Online, 24 Mar 2016 in Film
• How to Send an E‑mail: A 1984 British Television Broadcast Explains This “Simple” Process, 23 Mar 2016 in Technology&Television
• Software Used by Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Studio Becomes Open Source & Free to Download, 22 Mar 2016 in Animation&Software
• The First Masterpieces of Abstract Film: Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21 (1921) & Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale (1924), 21 Mar 2016 in Film
• Why Do People Talk Funny in Old Movies?, or The Origin of the Mid-Atlantic Accent, 18 Mar 2016 in English Language&Film&History
• A Curated Collection of Vintage Japanese Magazine Covers (1913–46), 17 Mar 2016 in Art&History&Magazines
• Watch 30 Films from the 1970s by Computer Animation Pioneer Lillian F. Schwartz, 16 Mar 2016 in Art&Technology
• Hear the Musical Evolution of Frank Zappa in 401 Songs, 15 Mar 2016 in Music
• Who’s Out There?: Orson Welles Narrates a Documentary Asking Whether There’s Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe (1975), 14 Mar 2016 in Science&Television
• Download the Complete Archive of Oz, “the Most Controversial Magazine of the 60s,” Featuring R. Crumb, Germaine Greer & More, 11 Mar 2016 in Art&History&Magazines
• Download 1800 Fin de Siècle French Posters & Prints: Iconic Works by Toulouse-Lautrec & Many More, 11 Mar 2016 in Art&History
• 11 Essential Feminist Books: A Reading List by The New York Public Library, 09 Mar 2016 in Gender&History&Literature&Philosophy
• Stephen Fry Launches Pindex, a “Pinterest for Education”, 08 Mar 2016 in Education&Science&Web/Tech
• Charlie Chaplin Gets Strapped into a Dystopian “Rube Goldberg Machine,” a Frightful Commentary on Modern Capitalism, 07 Mar 2016 in Comics/Cartoons&Film&Technology
• A Complete Collection of Wes Anderson Video Essays, 04 Mar 2016 in Film
• 3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931), 03 Mar 2016 in Art
• The Home Movies of Two Surrealists: Look Inside the Lives of Man Ray & René Magritte, 02 Mar 2016 in Art&Film
• David Bowie’s Music Video “Jump They Say” Pays Tribute to Marker’s La Jetée, Godard’s Alphaville, Welles’ The Trial & Kubrick’s 2001, 01 Mar 2016 in Film&Music
• How the Coen Brothers Put Their Remarkable Stamp on the “Shot Reverse Shot,” the Fundamental Cinematic Technique, 29 Feb 2016 in Film
• How Chris Marker’s Radical SciFi Film, La Jetée, Changed the Life of Cyberpunk Prophet, William Gibson, 26 Feb 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• Take a Multimedia Tour of the Buttock Song in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, 25 Feb 2016 in Art&Music
• Orson Welles Narrates the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World (1967), 24 Feb 2016 in Film&History
• Dear Immanuel — Kant Gives Love Advice to a Heartbroken Young Woman (1791), 23 Feb 2016 in Philosophy
• Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, 22 Feb 2016 in Comics/Cartoons
• Download 14 Free Posters from NASA That Depict the Future of Space Travel in a Captivatingly Retro Style, 19 Feb 2016 in Science&Travel
• In Japanese Schools, Lunch Is As Much About Learning As It’s About Eating, 18 Feb 2016 in Food & Drink
• Kickstart Pakistan’s First Hand-Animated Feature Film, The Glassworker, Inspired by Hayao Miyazaki, 17 Feb 2016 in Animation&Film
• David Foster Wallace Reads Franz Kafka’s Short Story “A Little Fable” (and Explains Why Comedy Is Key to Kafka), 16 Feb 2016 in Comedy&Literature
• Download Hundreds of 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters of the Tradition, 15 Feb 2016 in Art
• Music in the Brain: Scientists Finally Reveal the Parts of Our Brain That Are Dedicated to Music, 12 Feb 2016 in Music&Neuroscience
• Neil Gaiman Presents “How Stories Last,” an Insightful Lecture on How Stories Change, Evolve & Endure Through the Centuries, 11 Feb 2016 in Books&Literature
• Russian Superheroes: Artist Draws Traditional Russian Folk Heroes in a Modern Fantasy Style, 10 Feb 2016 in Comics/Cartoons
• Priceless 145-Year-Old Martin Guitar Accidentally Gets Smashed to Smithereens in Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, 09 Feb 2016 in Film&Music
• Take a Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s Bewildering Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights, 08 Feb 2016 in Art
• Walk Inside a Surrealist Salvador Dalí Painting with This 360º Virtual Reality Video, 05 Feb 2016 in Art&Technology
• The Wisdom & Advice of Maurice Ashley, the First African-American Chess Grandmaster, 04 Feb 2016 in Games&TED Talks
• How Stanley Kubrick Became Stanley Kubrick: A Short Documentary Narrated by the Filmmaker, 03 Feb 2016 in Film
• Hear The Alan Parson Project’s Prog-Rock Interpretation of Isaac Asimov’s, I Robot (1977), 01 Feb 2016 in Music&Sci Fi
• Samuel Beckett Play Brought to Life in an Eerie Short Film Starring Alan Rickman & Kristin Scott Thomas, 29 Jan 2016 in Film&Theatre
• An Animated Introduction to Goethe, Germany’s “Renaissance Man”, 28 Jan 2016 in History&Literature
• Archive of 35,000 TV Political Ads Launched, Creating a Badly Needed Way to Hold Politicians Accountable, 27 Jan 2016 in Internet Archive&Politics&Television
• William S. Burroughs Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, 26 Jan 2016 in Audio Books&Literature
• Jules Verne Accurately Predicts What the 20th Century Will Look Like in His Lost Novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863), 25 Jan 2016 in Sci Fi
• Hear the Experimental Piano Jazz Album by Comedian H. Jon Benjamin — Who Can’t Play Piano, 22 Jan 2016 in Comedy&Music
• The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers, 21 Jan 2016 in Books
• Kraftwerk’s First Concert: The Beginning of the Endlessly Influential Band (1970), 20 Jan 2016 in Music&Technology
• Artist Turns Famous Paintings, from Raphael to Monet to Lichtenstein, Into Innovative Soundscapes, 19 Jan 2016 in Art&Technology
• Attention K‑Mart Shoppers: Hear 90 Hours of Background Music & Ads from the Retail Giant’s 1980s and 90s Heyday, 18 Jan 2016 in History&Music
• The Late, Great Alan Rickman Reads Shakespeare, Proust & Thomas Hardy, 15 Jan 2016 in Literature
• How to Take Advantage of Boredom, the Secret Ingredient of Creativity, 14 Jan 2016 in Creativity&Psychology
• 29 Sketchbooks by Renowned Artist Richard Diebenkorn, Containing 1,045 Drawings, Now Freely Viewable Online, 13 Jan 2016 in Art&Stanford
• An Introduction to the World of Haruki Murakami Through Documentaries, Stories, Animation, Music Playlists & More, 12 Jan 2016 in Books&Literature
• 103 Essential Films By Female Filmmakers: Clueless, Lost In Translation, Ishtar and More, 11 Jan 2016 in Film
• Splendid Hand-Scroll Illustrations of The Tale of the Genjii, The First Novel Ever Written (Circa 1120), 09 Jan 2016 in Art&Literature
• The New York Public Library Lets You Download 180,000 Images in High Resolution: Historic Photographs, Maps, Letters & More, 07 Jan 2016 in Archives&History&Letters&Literature&Photography
• CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite Introduces America to Underground Films and the Velvet Underground (1965), 06 Jan 2016 in Film&Music&Television
• Michio Kaku & Noam Chomsky School Moon Landing and 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists, 05 Jan 2016 in Current Affairs&History&Psychology
• See The Empire Strikes Back as a Silent Film — Precisely How George Lucas Imagined the Star Wars Films, 04 Jan 2016 in Film&Sci Fi
• Mark Twain Knocks New Year’s Resolutions: They’re a “Harmless Annual Institution, Of No Particular Use to Anybody”, 01 Jan 2016 in Life&Literature
• Great “Filmumentaries” Take You Inside the Making of Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark & Jaws, 31 Dec 2015 in Film
• How to Get Started: John Cage’s Approach to Starting the Difficult Creative Process, 30 Dec 2015 in Creativity&Music
• Music from Star Wars, Kubrick, Scorsese & Tim Burton Films Played by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: Stream Full Albums, 29 Dec 2015 in Film&Music
• The British Museum Is Now Open To Everyone: Take a Virtual Tour and See 4,737 Artifacts, Including the Rosetta Stone, 28 Dec 2015 in Art
• Watch David Lynch’s Playstation 2 Commercial, Then Go Behind the Scenes and Watch Him Make It, 25 Dec 2015 in Film&Video Games
• Brian Eno on Why Do We Make Art & What’s It Good For?: Download His 2015 John Peel Lecture, 24 Dec 2015 in Art&Creativity&Music
• Shot-By-Shot Breakdowns of Spielberg’s Filmmaking in Jaws, Scorsese’s in Cape Fear, and De Palma’s in The Untouchables, 22 Dec 2015 in Film
• The Auteurs of Christmas: Christmas Morning as Seen Through the Eyes of Kubrick, Tarantino, Scorsese & More, 21 Dec 2015 in Film
• Watch 34 of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References to Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, 8 1/2 & Other Great Films, 18 Dec 2015 in Film
• How Marcel Marceau Started Miming to Save Children from the Holocaust, 17 Dec 2015 in History&Theatre
• What Makes Yasujirō Ozu a Great Filmmaker? New Video Essay Explains His Long-Admired Cinematic Style, 16 Dec 2015 in Film
• Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays, 15 Dec 2015 in Radio&Sci Fi
• Werner Herzog Creates Required Reading & Movie Viewing Lists for Enrolling in His Film School, 14 Dec 2015 in Books&Film