THE LAST WITNESS

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Four journeys to the edge of history.

Before it was history, it was an ordinary day. Each chapter takes you inside it — the last hour, the last day, the world they lived in — with the Correspondent, a witness who arrives when nothing can be stopped, and everything can still be seen.

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AI-generated historical reconstructions with a fictional narrator. About the films.

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Vesuvius erupting at night over the Bay of Naples
Chapter 01 · AD 79

60 Minutes Before Pompeii Vanished

Sealed for 1,767 years.

Pompeii, Bay of Naples
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The Titanic's stern rising against the night sky
Chapter 02 · April 14, 1912

Titanic's Last Hour

The ship that obeyed every rule.

RMS Titanic, North Atlantic
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Chernobyl Reactor 4 under the open night sky
Chapter 03 · April 26, 1986

Chernobyl's Last Hour

The safety test that destroyed it.

Chernobyl Reactor 4, Ukraine
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Sultana moving north on the dark Mississippi before the disaster
Chapter 04 · Available now · April 27, 1865

Sultana: They Were Going Home

The last day of an unfinished journey.

Mississippi River at Hopefield, Arkansas
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The intact World Trade Center in a 2001 archival photograph by Carol M. Highsmith
Special · September 11, 2001

New York.
The morning.

A short in living memory. The morning before 8:45 a.m., with its photographic archive, sources and a note on why we stop here.

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“I can do nothing now. You — remember it.” The Correspondent