History.
Told Like Cinema.
We make documentaries about the past and publish the evidence they rest on — the sources, the licences, the material we refused to use, and the questions the record cannot answer.
Rano Raraku · Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0
The latest film
The Island That Was Blamed
Read the evidence →
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The Archivist Books
The films are the fifteen per cent.
Every documentary leaves research behind; the books are the rest of it — the registers, the contested dates, the sources we read and the ones we refused.
Every film shows its workings
Counted from the catalogue this site is built from, at the moment the page was built. None of these figures is typed by hand.
films published
photographs cleared individually
permanent catalogue pages
questions published unresolved
The sources
Each claim traced to a record you can go and read yourself.
The rights
Every image cleared individually, with its licence and origin stated.
The gaps
Where the evidence stops, we say so — on the film and on the page.
Anyone can claim to be careful.
We would rather you checked.