I've long felt that the greatest exploration of history every created in entertainment form was the 20-year long show called Modern Marvels[0] on the History Ch

I've long felt that the greatest exploration of history every created in entertainment form was the 20-year long show called Modern Marvels[0] on the History Channel. It was the History Channels very first show and since it's beginnings in 1995, Modern Marvels has treated us to 44 minute long explorations of the history of things (infrastructure, buildings, devices, earthworks, vehicles) with a format that avoids the boring and useless. All "5 Ws" are addressed each episode, but instead of focusing on "when" and "who" and "where", it focuses on: - "What?" What is this thing? What is it's purpose? How does it do what it does? What can we learn from it? - "Why?" Why was it built? Why did we drive to build something so important? Why should I care? Only after we understand what it is and why it is, do we start to look at who built it, when they built it, etc (though they sneak in some who and when to contextualize the why quite often (which is great!)). Take for example this exploration of the United States Library of Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZuXepy0DdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZuXepy0DdY What a sublime show. And it has such a fantastic narrator and opening theme as well! [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Marvels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Marvels