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• 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
• 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
• Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD), 02 Feb 2016 in Animation&History
• 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
• How to Make Sushi: Free Video Lessons from a Master Sushi Chef, 11 Dec 2015 in Food & Drink
• Time Travel Back to Tokyo After World War II, and See the City in Remarkably High-Quality 1940s Video, 10 Dec 2015 in History
• Watch Groundbreaking Comic Artist Mœbius Draw His Characters in Real Time, 09 Dec 2015 in Art&Comics/Cartoons
• Google Gives You a 360° View of the Performing Arts, From the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Paris Opera Ballet, 08 Dec 2015 in Dance&Google&Music&Theatre
• Anatomy of a Scene: 100+ Filmmakers Like Wes Anderson, Tim Burton & Ridley Scott Break Down a Scene from Each of Their Films, 07 Dec 2015 in Film
• Vintage Footage Shows a Young, Unknown Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe Living at the Famed Chelsea Hotel (1970), 04 Dec 2015 in History&Music&Photography
• How Isaac Asimov Went from Star Trek Critic to Star Trek Fan & Advisor, 03 Dec 2015 in Sci Fi&Television
• 45,000 Works of Art from Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center Now Freely Viewable Online, 02 Dec 2015 in Art
• Slavoj Zizek​ Explains What’s Wrong with Online Dating & What Unconventional Technology Can Actually Improve Your Love Life, 01 Dec 2015 in Life&Philosophy&Technology
• Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions, 30 Nov 2015 in Music
• Portland, the City in Cinema: See the City of Roses as it Appears in 20 Different Films, 27 Nov 2015 in Film
• The Great Stan Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, 26 Nov 2015 in Poetry
• William S. Burroughs Reads His Sarcastic “Thanksgiving Prayer” in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant, 25 Nov 2015 in Film&Poetry
• Picasso Makes Wonderful Abstract Art, 24 Nov 2015 in Art&Film
• Mœbius & Jodorowsky’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece, The Incal, Brought to Life in a Tantalizing Animation, 23 Nov 2015 in Animation&Sci Fi
• David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials, 20 Nov 2015 in Food & Drink&Television
• Meet Congo the Chimp, London’s Sensational 1950s Abstract Painter, 19 Nov 2015 in Art
• The First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac’s The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922), 18 Nov 2015 in Film&Gender
• The First Surrealist Film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Brought to You By Germaine Dulac & Antonin Artaud (1928), 17 Nov 2015 in Film
• Hear 2.5‑Hours of Great Jazz Songs Featured in Woody Allen Films: Sidney Bechet in Midnight in Paris, Louis Armstrong in Stardust Memories & More, 16 Nov 2015 in Film&Music
• NASCAR Meets the Paranormal in Terry Gilliam’s Short Film, The Legend of Hallowdega, 13 Nov 2015 in Film&Sports
• Free Online: Watch the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Arguably the Most Respected Filmmaker of All Time, 12 Nov 2015 in Film
• Edvard Munch’s The Scream Animated to the Psychedelic Sounds of Pink Floyd: The Winter Version, 11 Nov 2015 in Animation&Art
• The Interior of the Hindenburg Revealed in 1930s Color Photos: Inside the Ill-Fated Airship, 10 Nov 2015 in History&Photography
• W.B. Yeats’ Poem “When You Are Old” Adapted into a Japanese Manga Comic, 09 Nov 2015 in Comics/Cartoons&Poetry
• Harlan Ellison’s Wonderful Rant on Why Writers Should Always Get Paid, 06 Nov 2015 in Business&Writing
• Man Ray’s Portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Marcel Duchamp & Many Other 1920s Icons, 05 Nov 2015 in Art&Literature&Photography
• New Video Game Inspired by 20 Haruki Murakami Stories Is Coming Your Way: Help Kickstart It, 04 Nov 2015 in Literature&Video Games
• Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs Reveal the Last Days of Samurai Japan, 03 Nov 2015 in History&Photography
• A Young David Lynch Talks About Eraserhead in One of His First Recorded Interviews (1979), 02 Nov 2015 in Film
• 30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch & Other Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art, 30 Oct 2015 in Art
• The Big Ideas Behind Andy Warhol’s Art, and How They Can Help Us Build a Better World, 29 Oct 2015 in Art
• Free Documentary View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining Looks at How Kubrick Made “the World’s Scariest Movie”, 28 Oct 2015 in Film
• Hear Sylvia Plath Read 50+ of Her Dark, Compelling Poems, 27 Oct 2015 in Audio Books&Poetry
• Hear Marcel Duchamp Read “The Creative Act,” A Short Lecture on What Makes Great Art, Great, 26 Oct 2015 in Art
• David Lynch Draws a Map of Twin Peaks (to Help Pitch the Show to ABC), 23 Oct 2015 in Maps&Television
• Watch Vincent Price Turn Into Edgar Allan Poe & Read Four Classic Poe Stories (1970), 22 Oct 2015 in Film&Television
• Free Today: Watch Online the Pioneering Films of the Late Chantal Akerman, 21 Oct 2015 in Film
• 105 Animated Philosophy Videos from Wireless Philosophy: A Project Sponsored by Yale, MIT, Duke & More, 20 Oct 2015 in Education&Philosophy
• What Is Déjà Vu? Michio Kaku Wonders If It’s Triggered by Parallel Universes, 19 Oct 2015 in Physics&Psychology&Science
• The Worlds of Hitchcock & Kubrick Collide in a Surreal Mashup, The Red Drum Getaway, 18 Oct 2015 in Film
• Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy in 1963 (with a Little Help from His Editor), 15 Oct 2015 in Art&Literature
• When Frank Zappa & Miles Davis Played a Drug Dealer and a Pimp on Miami Vice, 14 Oct 2015 in Music&Television
• Browse Paintings, Photos, Papers & More in the Archive of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, America’s Original Art Power Couple, 13 Oct 2015 in Art&Photography
• 1200 Years of Women Composers: A Free 78-Hour Music Playlist That Takes You From Medieval Times to Now, 12 Oct 2015 in Music