The Continuum

On February 15, 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 260 American sailors. Within weeks, cries of “Remember the Maine!” swept across the United States, newspapers blamed Spain, and America marched toward war. But the story is far more complicated. In this documentary, we examine the events leading up to the explosion, including the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, the brut...

They didn’t begin with gas chambers. They began with words. Before the Holocaust became industrialized mass murder, Nazi Germany launched a program known as Aktion T4 —a secret campaign that targeted people with disabilities, mental illness, and those the regime labeled “life unworthy of life.” In this documentary, we examine how ordinary language became a weapon. Bureaucrats, doctors, and adminis...

The Treaty of Versailles didn’t just end World War I—it helped shape the conditions that led to World War II. In this documentary, we examine how the Treaty of Versailles was written, why Germany was excluded from the negotiations, and how the peace conference at Paris became one of the most consequential diplomatic failures in modern history. From the dramatic confrontation in the Hall of Mirrors...

In 1854, thousands of people stormed a federal jail in Milwaukee to free an escaped slave. What followed became one of the most explosive constitutional battles in American history. This video tells the story of Joshua Glover, Sherman Booth, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the legal war that brought a state government into direct conflict with the United States Supreme Court years before the Civi...

On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the USS Liberty was attacked in international waters, leaving 34 American sailors dead and 171 wounded. The official explanation was mistaken identity—but for decades, survivors, military leaders, intelligence officials, and investigators have challenged that conclusion. This documentary examines the documented events surrounding the USS Liberty attack, the...

Britain and France won the military battle in Egypt in 1956. So why did the Suez Crisis destroy Britain’s status as a global superpower? This video breaks down the hidden story behind the Suez Crisis — from Gamal Abdel Nasser’s electrifying rise in Egypt, to the secret conspiracy between Britain, France, and Israel, to the financial warfare President Dwight D. Eisenhower used to force Britain into...

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident became the justification for the Vietnam War. There was just one problem:The second attack likely never happened. In August 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson told the American people that North Vietnam launched an unprovoked attack against U.S. Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Days later, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution almost unanimously — giving th...

Before Memorial Day became a holiday of barbecues and long weekends, one of the first known Memorial Day ceremonies was held by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1865, newly freed Black Americans honored fallen Union soldiers who died fighting against slavery by giving them proper burials and holding a massive remembrance ceremony. This is the forgotten story of how Memorial Day bega...

Oil has dozens of producers. Advanced semiconductor chips — the components powering every smartphone, every AI system, every modern weapons platform on the planet — have one. Taiwan. One island. 23 million people. 90% of the world’s most advanced chips. And right now, as the Iran war disrupts the energy supply lines that keep Taiwan’s fabs running, the fragility of the entire global technology sup...

The petrodollar system has survived oil embargoes, financial crises, and the rise of China. It survived 2008 — when a crisis born in American banks sent investors running toward the dollar, not away from it. But the dollar just posted its worst performance in over fifty years. And this time, the threat didn’t come from Beijing or Moscow. It came from Washington. In Episode 3 of our Petrodollar ser...

In Episode 1, we traced how America replaced the gold standard with oil — and built the petrodollar system in a secret deal between Henry Kissinger and the Saudi royal family. In Episode 2, we look at what that system actually did. For fifty years, the United States has run deficits that would have collapsed any other economy. Borrowed endlessly. Printed money. Fought wars it couldn’t pay for. And...

Discover the secret arrangement that saved the US dollar and reshaped the global economy for 50 years. In 1971, the world’s financial anchor snapped when Richard Nixon ended the gold standard. Facing economic chaos and a skyrocketing oil crisis, a secret 1974 deal between Henry Kissinger and the Saudi royal family created a new world order: the Petrodollar system. We trace the history of modern mo...

In 44 BCE, an 18-year-old received a letter in Greece telling him that Julius Caesar — assassinated the day before — had named him his heir. His advisors told him to walk away. He walked straight in. What followed was one of the most ruthless and brilliant political ascents in human history. The boy everyone planned to sideline outmaneuvered Mark Antony, outlasted Cleopatra, put his own champion C...

The Tanker War remains one of the most volatile chapters in Middle East history, directly shaping the permanent US military presence in the Persian Gulf today. In this deep dive, we explore Iraq’s deliberate strategy to bomb Kharg Island to provoke an Iranian retaliation. By forcing Iran to threaten the Strait of Hormuz , Saddam Hussein aimed to globalize the conflict and force a US intervention....

In September 1980, Iraq invaded Iran. Saddam Hussein expected it to be over in weeks. It lasted eight years. It killed over a million people. It used chemical weapons on a scale not seen since World War One. This is Part 1 of our two-part series on the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). This episode covers the ground war — the invasion, the human wave attacks, the chemical weapons, and the economic destru...

This week, Senator Lindsey Graham went on Fox News and said “We did Iwo Jima — we can do this” to argue for sending U.S. Marines to seize Iran’s Kharg Island. Republicans and Democrats immediately pushed back. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called it “a lack of respect for life.” Rep. Jason Crow noted that nearly 7,000 Americans died and 19,000 were wounded at Iwo Jima. Rep. Nancy Mace said Graham “needs...

In August 1953, the CIA and British intelligence MI6 overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a covert operation codenamed Operation Ajax. They did it in four days. They did it for oil. And for seventy years, they denied it. This is the full story — from the 1901 British oil concession that handed Iran’s resources to a foreign company, to the global embargo that...

In 1972, a gallon of gas cost 36 cents. By 1980, the world had changed forever. This is the story of the 1970s energy crisis — the oil embargo that blindsided America, the gas lines that stretched for miles, and the political fallout that reshaped the country for decades. In October 1973, Arab members of OPEC launched an oil embargo against the United States in response to American support for Isr...

A billion-dollar bridge. A private billionaire. A sudden presidential threat. This is how the Gordie Howe Bridge exposed political cronyism in plain sight. The Gordie Howe International Bridge was designed to strengthen trade between the United States and Canada. Instead, it became the center of a controversy involving private business interests, government officials, and a last-minute threat that...

Before emperors ruled Rome, one man showed it could be done. Julius Caesar did not destroy the Roman Republic overnight. He survived it, learned from it, and mastered the broken system it had already become. In this episode of our Roman Emperors series , we follow Caesar’s life from his violent childhood during Rome’s civil wars to the battles, political maneuvering, and personal risks that made h...

They used skulls, rulers, and fake science to decide who was human. This documentary exposes how pseudoscience was weaponized to justify racism. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, so-called scientists claimed they could measure intelligence, morality, and worth by measuring skulls. This episode examines phrenology, craniometry, and scientific racism , revealing how false data and biased methods...

Leslie Wexner is often remembered as the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret and L Brands—but his influence went far beyond retail. In this video, we examine Leslie Wexner’s business empire, political donations, and financial networks , and how they intersected with Jeffrey Epstein , one of the most notorious figures of the modern era. Using documented records, court filings, and investigative re...

After 9/11, America didn’t just change — it surrendered power in the name of safety. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Americans were promised security — and many accepted sweeping changes without debate. This narrative-driven documentary examines how fear enabled new laws, expanded surveillance, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, permanently altering the balance betwee...

Before Julius Caesar. Before Augustus. Before Rome had emperors — there was Gaius Marius . Gaius Marius was not an emperor, but he was the man who changed Rome forever. In this episode of our Roman Emperors series , we explore how Marius transformed the Roman army, created the first true cult of personality in Roman politics, and made the rise of Julius Caesar — and the Roman Empire itself — inevi...

What exactly is EFTA0005010 , and why does this document stand out among the Epstein files? In this video, we take a focused, evidence-based look at EFTA0005010 , breaking down what the file contains, what’s missing, and why its details continue to raise serious questions. Rather than headlines or rumors, this analysis centers on documented records , redactions, and patterns found within the Epste...