A documentary app for iPhone
Two minutes.
One true story.
Real stories, made as films. Ninety seconds to two minutes an episode, series you watch in order from episode one, and a list of sources under every episode so you can check anything you doubt.
iPhone · Starts with a 7-day free trial.
The Lake That Exploded · Ep 1 · 1:57
What you can watch
Eleven series,
made like films.
The difference
Every claim,
sourced.
Most short history videos are written by a machine and believed by nobody. Watch one of ours and you can check it.
Tap Sources on any episode and you get the list: national archives, inquiry transcripts, newspapers printed at the time, letters, scientific papers. Not a vague reading list — the exact line each fact came from, and a link straight to the page it sits on.
If we could not find a line to stand behind, the fact does not make it into the episode. Where a scene is dramatised, the episode says so on screen rather than letting you assume it is footage.
Every episode lists its sources
Two real examples
Both of these sit in the app right now, under the episodes they belong to.
“Earhart contacted the Itasca at 7:42am indicating ‘We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low.’”
U.S. National Archives, The Japanese Government's Offer of Assistance to Help Find Amelia Earhart, July 1937
text-message.blogs.archives.gov ↗
“The Soviets delayed admission of the disaster and continue to minimize domestic media coverage.”
CIA intelligence report, 29 April 1986, in Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Vol. V
history.state.gov ↗
A fact card, mid-episode
The format
Ninety seconds
to two minutes.
Long enough to be a film. Short enough to watch waiting for a train.
Continue watching resumes exactly where you stopped. My List keeps the series you found at 1am waiting at lunchtime. There is no feed, no algorithm deciding what you get next, and nothing autoplays into something you did not choose.
One thumb, full screen
Vertical, edge to edge, nothing in the way. Tap the right of the screen for the next beat, the left to go back.
Series run in order
Episode one opens the story and every one after it moves forward. Put a series down and pick it up clean.
The proof, on screen
When an episode gives you a number or a date, a card shows it — with the source it came from printed underneath.
All access
Every story.
One plan.
Weekly
$4.99/week
Cancel any time.
Monthly
$14.99/month
Works out at $3.46 a week.
Both plans include
- Every series and every episode.
- New episodes every week.
- A 7-day free trial before you are charged anything.
- The first episodes of every series free, so you can judge the work before you pay for it.
- No advertisements, no ad tracking, no coins, no unlock timers.
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Start with the lake.
On 21 August 1986 a crater lake in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide that killed roughly 1,700 people and 3,500 head of livestock in a single night. No fire, no blast, no warning. Ten episodes, and episode one is where the app opens.