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Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing. His ion for open access ensnared him in a legal nightmare that ended …

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle…

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. …

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPC Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in …

An exploration into a possible link between various vaccinations and illness, injury, and death.

An examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. The film follows his career from the stage with "A Streetcar Named Desire", through the Actors Studio and prof…

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning d…

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revo…

Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is t…

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-c…

"If some of the film was spoiled, it's remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment." - David Groves, PhD. This compelling video throws into serio…

Moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square traffic, filmed with a kinesigraph.

A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a enger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard becau…

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wa…

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farmi…

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children ed through the White House Gates to-day during the hours set apart for the great Nat…

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows a blurry figure in white standing in one place making l…