Shamima Begum’s 2021 Plea to Return to the UK and Her Lost Appeals
Originally published 2021-06-19. In June 2021, Shamima Begum, then 21, gave an interview from al-Roj, a detention camp for families of Isl...
Documentaries & Real-World Stories
A documentary can introduce a place, a problem or a person we might never otherwise encounter. It also reflects choices about filming, editing and whose voice is heard. Explore films and the questions they raise, treating a compelling account as an invitation to learn more about its subject.
Seaspiracy: Viewer Reactions, Disputed Claims and Ocean Facts
Originally published 2021-04-06. Seaspiracy , a Netflix documentary released in late March 2021, quickly became one of the most talked-ab...
The Woodstock Couple Who Found Their First Photo 50 Years Later
Originally published 2020-04-17. Events, ages and announcements in this account refer to April 2020.
Manolis Glezos: The Partisan Who Tore the Nazi Flag Off the Acropolis
Photo: flash.gr Manolis Glezos, the Greek resistance fighter who helped pull the swastika flag down from the Acropolis in 1941, died in At...
Alike Uses Colour to Explore Creativity, Routine and Connection
Originally published 2018-09-28. An entertainer would ask what do people want, but an artist would ask what do people need?
What Happened to the Aral Sea? Videos of a Vanishing Lake
Children run past ruined ships stranded on the dry former bed of the Aral Sea near Zhalanash, southwestern Kazakhstan. Photo: Reuters / Sha...
Viva La Dirt League’s Nightclub Nature Documentary Parody
Originally published 2018-09-15. What would a nightclub look like if David Attenborough’s film crew had wandered in by mistake? New Zealand...
A Video About Japan's Unit 731
Originally published 2018-04-18. Historical documentation and a video's narration The subject requires careful use of records and surv...
I Am Dyslexic: The Animated Short Film and What It Shows
Originally published 2018-03-03. Dates, ages and announcements in this article refer to March 2018. I Am Dyslexic is a six-minute animate...
Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: SKYGLOW's Kaibab Elegy Time-Lapse
Image Courtesy of SKYGLOW Imagine standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon and finding the canyon gone, replaced by a white sea of cloud th...
Humpback Whale and Diver Nan Hauser: Was It Really a Rescue?
In 2017 the whale biologist Nan Hauser was snorkelling off Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook Islands, when a humpback whale spent more...
The Starving Polar Bear Video: What Happened and What It Proved
Originally published 2018-01-12. In December 2017, the photographer Paul Nicklen and the conservation group SeaLegacy released footage of ...
Le Clitoris: Lori Malépart-Traversy’s Animated Anatomy Short
Le Clitoris is a three-minute animated documentary by Montreal filmmaker Lori Malépart-Traversy that explains, with cheerful cartoons and p...
Happiness: Steve Cutts' Animated Satire of the Rat Race
Originally published 2017-12-05. What does happiness mean to you? Most of us search for it in material things, substances, or career achie...
Libya Slave Auctions: What the 2017 CNN Footage Revealed
Originally published 2017-12-03. In November 2017, CNN broadcast hidden-camera footage from a warehouse outside Tripoli in which young Afr...
Fresh Human Brain Video: Why the Real Organ Is So Soft
Originally published 2017-11-16. University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative/YouTube A living human brain is far softer than most people i...
Albert Einstein: How I See the World, and Which Quotes Are Real
“How I see the world” is close to the title Einstein himself gave his best-known personal credo, the essay usually published in English as ...
Humpback Whales Surface Beside a Boat Near Seward, Alaska
First published July 1, 2017. Brad Rich was out on the water near Seward, Alaska, with friends when they spotted humpback whales feeding i...
An Animation Shows Development From Conception to Birth
First published January 13, 2017. A compressed illustration is not an individual pregnancy timeline The video uses animation to make proces...
Life in the Womb: 9 Months of Fetal Development in 4 Minutes
Nine months of growth, from a single fertilised cell to a baby ready to be born, squeezed into about four minutes. That is the promise of t...
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Cartoonist Pablo Stanley turned John Lennon’s Imagine into a webcomic in which each line of the song is paired with a drawing of people fr... -
Brad Pitt did not write the famous list of twenty marriage tips that circulates under his name. The real author is Gerald Rogers, a Brigham... -
First published January 14, 2017. Many people who describe themselves as empaths say they feel tense, tongue-tied or worn out around someo... -
"Who are you?" is the question at the heart of I Am Nature , an 81-second campaign film made for the conservation group WWF and p... -
First published March 14, 2017. Thyme cannot cure strep throat, herpes, a yeast infection or the flu. That is the honest answer to a claim ...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
If you want a home workout that needs no equipment, five moves cover almost the whole body: the plank, the squat, the bird-dog, the glute b... -
Originally published 2017-02-09. Letting go means deciding to stop carrying something that drains you: an expectation, a grudge, a habit o... -
Originally published 2020-04-27. "Weightless" is an eight-minute ambient track by the Manchester band Marconi Union , written wi... -
In early 2018 a young Thai woman named Atittaya Chumkeaw drew attention online for something simple: she kept posting happy photos with her...