Historium

The story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports.

Music:
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma 
- Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi
- Classic Battle by Sam Spence
- Denmark by Portland Cello Project
- Independant by Brocker Way
- Tilting at Windmills by Brocker Way
- Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
- Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- 2 by AAEPSO
- Climax Rag by James Scott
- Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
- En Gang Agde by 1900
- Epilogue by Brocker Way

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Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that…

When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter stick of dynamite… things quickly got out of hand.

Welcome to Disco Demolition Night.

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An episode from a show I love called The Wind.  

"Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do."

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Neils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program.

Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

Additional music by Alarm Will Sound, Marisa Anderson, Kali Malone, Zoe Keating, Julie Kent, Ben Von Wildenhaus, Brocker Way, William Basinski, Nine Inch Nails, Mulatu Astatke, Richard D. James, Jon Hopkins, and Nils Frahm. Final song by King Dude.

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Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg. 

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Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico.

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Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at a secret research facility in Los Alamos. Meanwhile, counterintelligence seeks to unearth a secret communist spy ring within the very heart of the nuclear weapons program. A cold war starts before a world war ends.

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Additional music by Ludovico Einauldi, Luke Howard, Alarm Will Sound, Ben Sollee, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, and Lulu Belle & Scotty. 

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On the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins... 

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Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioulard, Zoe Keating, Nine Inch Nails, Choral Arts Northwest, and The Louvin Brothers.

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The story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

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Music:

• Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
• Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
• Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathaniel Bartlett
• Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
• Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek
• Expectation by Matthew Robert Cooper
• Never Ever by Lord Huron

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Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.

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Music:

• Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
• Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
• Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
• Battle of the Species by Antibalas
• Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
• One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
• Reckless by Brocker Way
• The Ox by The Who
• Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
• Tryouts by Brocker Way
• Heartaches by Al Bowlly
• The Beast by Dick Dale
• Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
• It Was a Town by Brocker Way
• Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
• Etude by Joep Beving
• In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson 
• Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
• End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
• Less Likely by Trent Reznor
• 1929 by Merle Haggard

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Tehran 1943. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet together for the first time with hopes of overcoming their ideological differences in order to win the Second World War.

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Music: 

• Nightbook by Ludovico Einauldi 
• Vanguard by Bear McCreary
• History is Listening by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
• Increase by David Lang
• Prelude by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
• The War Rooms by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
• Moscow, 1953 by Christopher Willis
• Welcome to the Bloody first by Wilbert Roget II
• Four Winds by Adam Hurst
• Staging a Coup by Christopher Willis
• Dungtitled (In a Major) by Stars of the Lid
• A Softer World by Luke Howard
• A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process by Stars of the Lid

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