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Kill Your TV: How Bay Area Video Art Exploded in the 1970s
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 12, 2015 The declining cost of home-video equipment gave ’70s media collectives in California’s Bay Area the resources...
Why Powerful Utilities and Car Dealerships Are Fighting Elon Musk
The National Automobile Dealers Association is trying to keep down Elon Musk’s vision of a renewable-energy world. Despite outcries to the White House to allow the...
Why Is Liquid Mercury in an Ancient Mesoamerican Pyramid?
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 11, 2015 Liquid mercury was of no practical or scientific use to the Maya who built the city of Teotihucan 1,800 years ago...
‘Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple’ (2010)
Older than Stonehenge, older than all sacred texts is humanity’s oldest standing worship structure, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which predates all other religious...
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 10, 2015 Trust in Congress is about as low as it has ever been; as of this writing, a RealClearPolitics average of polls suggests...
Before there was Michael Jackson’s doctor, there was Theodor Gilbert Morell, the personal physician to German Führer Adolf Hitler. In this documentary, historians...
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 9, 2015 In cities, traffic lights are among the most dangerous spots. A company called smart wanted to see if it could make waiting...
Wind is capable of overwhelming power and remarkable beauty. Wherever you live, whoever you are, weather shapes you world. To understand wind, you have to get inside it...
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 8, 2015 Golden eagles are among the largest birds on earth but know when to save their energy. In this footage, an eagle...
In an Involuntary Park, Nature Finds A Way
A nuclear accident in 1986 drove 116,000 Ukrainians to evacuate the site of the Chernobyl meltdown. Wildlife do not heed the street signs and roadblocks that keep humans...
Why do humans keep track of time based on systems of 12 and 60? When and where did different technologies spring up that allowed civilizations to coordinate labor and...
How People Disappear
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 6, 2015 In most jurisdictions, if no one hears from you in five to seven years, the state can declare you dead en absentia. Michael...
Angered by Money in Politics Pilot Lands on US Capitol Lawn
Doug Hughes is a 61-year-old mailman from Florida. He is alarmed by the amount of anonymous money flowing into the pockets of candidates for high office. A 2010 Supreme...
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 5, 2015 For honest parties in law enforcement, or civilians just trying to get out of a bad spot, this late-’80s documentary...
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‘The Roots of Division: Haiti and the Dominican Republic’ (2011)
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 4, 2015 Henry Louis Gates, chair of the African-American Studies Department at Harvard University, traveled to the island of...
Did NBC Frame Syria for Kidnapping Its Own Reporter?
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 4, 2015 NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel became the victim of an elaborate ruse by rebels affiliated with the U.S...
As the war in Vietnam raged on in the early 1970s, the mainstream media refused to air this documentary showing testimony, and even confessions, of U.S. war crimes;...
Tyler Bass Forbidden Knowledge TV May 2, 2015 The spider-tailed horned viper only surfaced in 2006. The Southwest Asian reptile is as rare as it is fascinating, due to...