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A West Papuan leader in exile is fighting for his homeland's independence from abroad.Benny Wenda, a West Papuan independence figure, has spent decades campaigning from the United Kingdom. After escaping custody during a trial in 2002, he became an international vo…
A westerly wind blows eastward, because winds are named for their sourceMeteorologists label wind by where it comes from, not where it goes, so a northerly pushes south and a westerly heads east. It trips people up constantly. Behind the naming sits s…
A Western classic where the real enemy forces bitter rivals to fight togetherIn the 1953 film Escape from Fort Bravo, a rigid Union captain and his Confederate prisoners are forced into an uneasy alliance. Trapped by Mescalero Apaches in the desert, they m…
A Western epic so intense it traumatized its stars and captivated a US PresidentThe 1958 epic The Big Country is remembered as much for its grueling production as its sweeping cinematography. While audiences and critics were divided, the film left a lasting m…
A Western film where the behind-the-scenes chaos overshadowed the actual story on screenJane Got a Gun was intended to be a gritty revisionist Western, but its legacy is defined by a turbulent production history. With constant director turnover, shifting casting, and…
A Western tale of an aging veteran and a girl who speaks only KiowaIn 2020, director Paul Greengrass brought Paulette Jiles’s novel to the screen, casting Tom Hanks as a traveling reader of news in post-Civil War Texas. He finds himself tasked wi…
A Western that defied genre conventions to become a uniquely female-centered cinematic experienceReleased in 1959, The Hanging Tree stands out as a rare Western that prioritizes its female lead over traditional frontier tropes. Starring Gary Cooper and Maria Schell, the film …
A wet night in 1879 sparked a global religious phenomenonOn a rainy August evening in rural Ireland, locals claimed to see divine figures appear on a church wall. What began as a village sighting evolved into a massive international pil…
A wet nurse's son who built Southeast Asia's largest empire everIn 1534 a young Burmese officer named Ye Htut was caught in a secret romance with the king's half-sister, a crime counted as treason. Instead of executing him, King Tabinshwehti l…
A whimsical heist film turns the global arms trade into a surreal Parisian prank.In Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2009 comedy Micmacs, a man wounded by a stray bullet teams up with a band of eccentric scavengers to dismantle the weapons industry. By manipulating two ri…
A whip crack is a tiny sonic boom, the first human-made oneFlick a long whip and a ripple races down the lash, gathering speed until the tip outruns sound itself, more than 30 times faster than the handle moved. The crack you hear is a mi…
A whistleblower's dilemma: Is exposing state secrets an act of treason or love?In the 2026 Malayalam thriller Patriot, a scientist must decide if dismantling a government surveillance system is a betrayal of his country or a defense of its people. It explore…
A white dwarf packs the mass of our Sun into the volume of Earth.Imagine a star so dense that a single ton of its material would fit inside a matchbox. These stellar remnants are not powered by nuclear fusion, but by the strange laws of quantum…
A white hole is the theoretical opposite of a black hole, but does it exist?In general relativity, a white hole is a region of spacetime that nothing can enter, yet energy and matter can escape. While black holes are born from collapsing stars, white hole…
A White House butler witnesses the turbulent evolution of 20th-century American civil rightsSpanning decades of service, this historical drama follows a butler who observes the shifting political landscape from inside the White House. While he navigates the complexities …
A whole sphere contains about 12.57 steradians, the unit of solid angleA radian measures a slice of a circle; a steradian measures a cone's worth of a sphere. Stand at the centre of any sphere and the whole surrounding view spans four pi steradians, …
A widow tries to give away her fortune in this star-studded 1964 comedyIn the black comedy What a Way to Go!, a wealthy woman attempts to donate $211 million to the IRS, convinced she is cursed. Each of her husbands found immense success before dying…
A widow's fight for a home becomes an ode to agingIn the drama Calle Málaga, Carmen Maura portrays a woman resisting the sale of her family home in Tangier. More than a property dispute, the film explores the dignity of self-dete…
A wild orangutan named Rakus treated a facial wound with chewed leavesIn 2024, a wild Sumatran orangutan called Rakus was seen chewing leaves of the plant Fibraurea tinctoria and smearing the paste onto a wound on its face. Weeks later it appeared h…
A wild wheatgrass species developed its own fungal resistance through mysterious genetic engineeringResearchers have discovered a variety of wheatgrass that naturally resists fungal infections. This video explores the surprising and currently unexplained way this plant managed t…
A winding ribbon of mystery at our solar system's edgeWe used to think we knew where our neighborhood ended, but a NASA satellite just revealed something strange. By catching particles from the deep void, IBEX discovered a bright, my…
A window into Peru through the lens of 1950 travelogue filmsBefore the digital age, unedited travelogues captured the raw textures of Andean life. From salt evaporation in Salinas to handcar safety measures on steep railroads, these 1950s …
A window into the daily rhythms of 1953 PakistanTravel through the Kohat and Swat regions via archival footage. This reel captures the vibrant street life, traditional craftsmanship, and rural landscapes of a moment in time.
A window into the past: what fossilized resin can revealAmber acts as a biological time capsule, capable of preserving entire organisms in remarkable detail. This video explores six of the most extraordinary and bizarre specimens ever …
A windowless marble monolith rising from the World Trade Center siteDesigned to keep the buzz of theatergoers at a distance from those paying tribute at the nearby memorial, the Perelman Performing Arts Center is a complex feat of engineering. Thi…
A Windward island named for a shipwrecked saint’s feast daySaint Lucia covers 617 square kilometres in the Windward Lesser Antilles between Martinique and Saint Vincent. Legend says French sailors wrecked there on 13 December, the feast o…
A winning Siberian football team could betray a secret weapons cityPicture an American in 1950s Moscow reading that a tiny, snowbound Siberian town keeps beating the capital at football. The sensible leap is that the town is no longer tiny, and t…
A winter disaster: How the Ottoman Empire lost 25,000 men to the cold aloneIn December 1914, the Ottoman Third Army launched an ambitious offensive against Russia in the Caucasus. Driven by Napoleonic tactics and high-stakes political goals, the campaign…
A winter fairy tale became a beloved European Christmas tradition against all oddsReleased in 1973, this Czechoslovak-East German production transformed the classic Cinderella story into a snowy, magical holiday staple. Despite political censorship and a produc…
A wire circling a magnet in mercury started a century of electric motorsDown in the Royal Institution's basement on 3 September 1821, Michael Faraday hung a wire into a pool of mercury with a magnet in it. When current flowed, the wire swept around th…
A Wisconsin paper town switched on America's first central hydroelectric stationOn September 30, 1882, a plant on the Fox River began sending hydroelectric power from a central station, a first for the nation. Its customers were Appleton's paper mills and a m…
A wisecracking parrot’s journey from a stuttering girl’s companion to a scientific lab subjectReleased in 1998, the film Paulie tells the story of a blue-crowned conure with the uncanny ability to speak like a human. After being separated from his original owner, the bird …
A woman achieved a baseball milestone during a 1922 exhibition gameIn August 1922, a special exhibition game at Fenway Park brought together major league stars and professional barnstormers to raise money for a former Red Sox player's family.
A woman found in a bag in Times Square holds the key to FBI mysteries.When a mysterious, amnesiac woman is discovered naked inside a travel bag in New York City's Times Square, her body is covered in intricate tattoos. These markings serve as a road…
A woman serves twenty years for a crime she did not actually commit.After two decades in prison for killing a sheriff, Ruth Slater is released into a world that refuses to forgive her. She is desperate to find her younger sister, but a web of secr…
A woman wakes in a coffin-like pod with no memory and dwindling air supply.Trapped in a high-tech cryogenic chamber, a scientist must solve the mystery of her own identity before her oxygen runs out. Directed by Alexandre Aja, this claustrophobic thrille…
A woman who lived as Black for years while born to white parentsRachel Dolezal rose to prominence as a civil rights activist and NAACP chapter president, all while presenting herself as a Black woman. Her life unraveled in 2015 when her biolog…
A wooden puppet takes center stage in Leos Carax’s surreal, musical rock opera AnnetteIn this 2021 musical drama, a stand-up comedian and an opera singer navigate a volatile marriage that takes a dark turn after the birth of their daughter. The child, portrayed by …
A wooden toe from Egyptian Thebes shows prosthetics are ancientIn 2000, pathologists examining a mummy from a cemetery near ancient Thebes found an artificial big toe of wood and leather, worn from use and dated to between 950 and 710 BC. Whe…
A wooden trackway in Somerset can be dated to a single winterThe Sweet Track, a timber causeway across English wetland, was built in the winter of 3807 BC or the spring after. Tree rings in its wood let archaeologists pin the date that prec…
A wordless Latvian animated film about a cat just made cinematic historyFlow, a 2024 animated adventure featuring no dialogue, follows a cat navigating a post-apocalyptic world of rising waters. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, this independent co-produc…
A working centrifuge can now be 3-D printed for about 25 dollarsOpen-source designers have published a hand-powered centrifuge that spins at more than 1,732 revolutions per minute and can be printed entirely on a 3-D printer for roughly 25 dol…
A world champion's sudden withdrawal sparks a global chess scandalWhen Magnus Carlsen abruptly dropped out of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup after losing to Hans Niemann, the chess world erupted. What began as a shocking upset quickly spiraled into a …
A World Cup loss to Yugoslavia helped push Germany into creating the BundesligaUntil the 1960s, West Germany had no national football league. Its champions emerged from a knockout tournament between regional winners, and its best players were drifting abroad…
A World Heritage Site caught in a battle over an unauthorized building expansionThe Iate Tênis Clube, a jewel of the Pampulha Architectural Complex in Brazil, faces a unique dilemma. While its original structure by Oscar Niemeyer is celebrated as a UNESCO Wor…
A World Heritage site faces a clash between ancient rock art and industrial expansionMurujuga National Park in Western Australia holds the world’s highest concentration of ancient petroglyphs. While UNESCO recently granted the site World Heritage status, a bitter …- A world in flux: mapping the shifting powers of 867This documentary explores the complex geopolitical landscape of 867, a pivotal year for Afro-Eurasia. It examines the rivalries and dynasties that defined an era, providing histor…
A world where humanity is extinct and the sky is the only refugeFive hundred years after the human race was wiped out by mysterious Beasts, the survivors live on floating islands. In this precarious existence, a man who has been petrified for …
A world where ninety percent of humanity succumbed to a mysterious diseaseIn the aftermath of the 'Red Day' catastrophe, the survivors live in isolation to avoid infection. But for a new generation, the ruins of civilization are not just graveyards—they…
A wounded Basque soldier founded the Jesuit orderIgnatius of Loyola—baptised under a Basque family name in the 1490s and dead in 1556—left soldiering for priesthood and, with six companions, founded the Society of Jesus. In Pari…
A wounded pilot, an enemy bay, and a mission to bring him homeIn September 1944, an American pilot was left stranded in enemy waters after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire. This video recounts the high-stakes rescue operation driven b…
A wrecked knee and a car crash steered Burt Reynolds toward actingBurt Reynolds planned to be a college football star until a knee injury and then a near-fatal car crash ended that. At a Florida junior college an English teacher heard him read S…
A wrecked knee at 27 turned Uli Hoeneß into Bayern's business architectWhen Uli Hoeneß took over Bayern Munich's commercial side in May 1979, the club had twelve employees, 12 million marks in revenue and 8 million marks of debt. He had been forced t…
A wrestling supershow breaks records at London's O2 ArenaProfessional wrestling transcends borders with the 2025 Forbidden Door. Co-produced by AEW and NJPW, this landmark event moved beyond North America to London, bringing together st…
A wrestling title born from a rebellion and a legal injunctionThe ECW World Heavyweight Championship wasn't just a belt; it was a symbol of secession. From its origins as a splinter from the National Wrestling Alliance to a title fought over…
A writer of only two books who changed Latin American literature foreverJuan Rulfo produced a remarkably slim body of work, yet his influence on 20th-century literature is seismic. By weaving rural violence with spectral, stream-of-consciousness narra…
A written language that survived 300 years of silenceFor three centuries, Faroese disappeared from the page. Following the 16th-century Reformation, Danish became the language of education and administration, leaving Faroese to live…
A WWII battle named the sea that holds Earth's largest reefNortheast of Australia, the Coral Sea stretches some two thousand kilometres down the Queensland coast and cradles the Great Barrier Reef—UNESCO-listed in 1981. In 1942 the same w…
A WWII bomber sat abandoned on Greenland's ice for over half a century.This documentary follows test pilot Darryl Greenamyer and his crew as they attempt to restore and fly a B-29 bomber that had been stranded on the Greenland icecap since 1947. It i…
A Wyoming rancher fights for his land against a mysterious, reality-bending black void.In the neo-Western series Outer Range, Royal Abbott faces a dual threat: a rival family attempting to seize 1,200 acres of his property and a supernatural phenomenon appearing in …