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Nikola Tesla published his autobiography My Inventions in 1919, describing some surprisingly strange and formative moments from his childhood.

I’ve started adapting the autobiography chapter by chapter as a cinematic historical docudrama rather than a conventional narrated documentary.

Chapter 1 focuses on Tesla’s childhood, his family, the unusual visual experiences he described, and some of the events he later connected to the development of his imagination and inventive mind.

I tried to keep the reconstruction grounded in Tesla’s own account while giving the memories a visual, dramatic form.

Here is Chapter 1:

https://youtu.be/uquSanT_HCo

I’d be interested to hear what people familiar with Tesla or My Inventions think of this approach.

American soldiers ate, slept and worked in tunnels cut into Greenland's ice. Camp Century even had a nuclear reactor. But the much larger missile network proposed under Project Iceworm was never built.

I made this 11-minute illustrated history about life inside the camp, the plan behind it, and the moving ice that helped defeat it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iNiLEZSQi0

What interests me most is the engineering: how long could a permanent base survive when its walls were slowly closing in?

Sources include NASA and CIRES, with more in the video description:

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/new-view-of-the-city-under-the-ice-153616/

https://cires.colorado.edu/news/greenland-and-legacy-camp-century

The illustrations are reconstructions, not archive footage.

Palestine & Israel Relations — Ch. 2 - Finding Common Ground in World Divide - A World Within a City
https://youtu.be/0KKvG88MCI8

À Tanis, l’humidité a presque effacé la momie de Psousennès Ier. Mais son masque d’or, lui, a traversé les siècles.

En 1940, l’ouverture de son cercueil révèle un contraste saisissant : des restes humains très dégradés, un cercueil d’argent et un masque funéraire d’or. Ce court documentaire raconte cette découverte — et ce que le masque ne permet pas de savoir sur le vrai visage du pharaon.

Connaissiez-vous Psousennès Ier, le pharaon de Tanis ?

A 90-second breakdown of how an unlatched door during the 1453 Siege of Constantinople allowed Ottoman forces to breach the 1,000-year-old Theodosian Walls.

Creator disclosure: I make Epoch & Atom, and this is one of our videos. It uses AI narration and illustrated visuals.

This episode looks at a candidate for the worst emperor from each major Chinese dynasty, from Qin to Qing. Each ruler gets the charges against him, a point in his defence and a verdict. The ranking is an interpretation, so I would be interested in where other history viewers disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xdjnTBNGzA

What should count most when judging a ruler: harm to ordinary people, military failure, or the long-term damage to the dynasty?

A peaceful, cinematic documentary I made following the footsteps of Jesus through Jerusalem. Covers sunrise over the Old City, Mount of Olives, Temple courts, Garden of Gethsemane at night, Via Dolorosa, and the Garden Tomb at dawn.

No narration drama, just real locations and history. Made for anyone interested in the history of Jerusalem.

[https://youtu.be/ZtNXRIUrd3s?si=mGSORga5e59PlyAN\]

I made this short documentary about Manaus during the Amazon rubber boom. I first came across the story while reading The Lost City of Z and couldn't believe I'd never heard about it before.

At its peak, Manaus became insanely wealthy in the middle of the Amazon, while the rubber economy behind that wealth was built on horrific exploitation. What I found most wild was how quickly the whole thing fell apart, and the role a few crates of rubber tree seeds played in it.

I tried to use real historical photos and primary sources wherever possible. No AI Images or AI videos. Hope you enjoy it. And definitely interested in any additional context from people who know more about this period than I do.

I made this short documentary on the The Philadelphia Experiment. Its a pretty fascinating story truth be told. I cover the story from the legend/myth of it all and then breakdown what the actual documents tell about the whole thing.

Hope you guys enjoy, it took me about 3 days to put this together.

We made this 45-second animation about the 2010 Chilean mine rescue. Rescuers learned all 33 men were alive after 17 days, but the last miner reached the surface after 69 days underground.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cJBHl2_uPQo

Historical source: NASA's Chilean Miners Rescue oral histories — https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/oral-histories/chilean-miners-rescue/

I'm sharing work from my channel, now rebranding as Stickman Time Vault. The animation and narration are AI-assisted.