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The dossier
A chapter begins as a verified dossier: the hours rebuilt minute by minute, the world around them, and a section listing what we will not say. Figures we cannot stand behind are cut, never softened.
How we work
Reconstruction, not footage.
Our films combine AI-generated reconstructions, human editorial work and, where identified, historical photographs or documents. Reconstructed scenes are interpretations of the evidence. The sources, uncertainties and creative choices behind each chapter are explained in its dossier.
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The library
We record the sources and passages supporting the historical claims we publish. Where the sources genuinely disagree — where the Titanic broke, which day Vesuvius buried Pompeii — the chapter says so instead of picking the tidier version.
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The light is the clock
Each chapter carries a light map drawn from its own chronology, and no image is generated without the hour it belongs to. A shot lit at the wrong time of day is a factual error here, not a stylistic one.
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The human gate
Nothing is published until a person has read it whole. Our editorial review can rule against a finished film — and has: the Titanic chapter was rebuilt from the ground up after the first cut failed it.
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Chapters
116
Sources filed
204
Claims traced
These figures cover the numbered chapters. Our New York special has its own open bibliography.
What we don't do
No fiction passed off as record. The website identifies AI-generated reconstructions and distinguishes them from archival records.
No dwelling on suffering. The tone stays documentary. What is terrible in these hours is already in the facts.
No myths repeated for effect. When a famous scene never happened, the chapter names it and explains why it stuck.
Who tells the story
The Last Witness is owned and published by LIV WORKS DEVELOPMENT SL, based in Barcelona, Spain. The company is responsible for the site's editorial decisions.
The Correspondent is a fictional narrator voiced with AI, not a real witness. Dialogue, camera viewpoints, sounds and reconstructed appearances may be invented to tell the story. An attributed historical quotation is a different kind of material and is identified through its source.
Archival photographs remain archival only in their documented form. Colourisation, animation and AI interpretation do not reveal lost original details. For example, the Sultana film includes an interpretive colour treatment of the Bankes photograph; the original is identified in the chapter's references.
Keeping track of sources
Source cards distinguish an existing record date from a later link check. A successful check shows that the URL responded at that time, not that its rights or every statement have been independently certified. A date never proves that a page remains available today.
For new acquisitions we record the URL, access time and reuse conditions. We retain a copy when the licence or permission allows it; otherwise we keep metadata and our own notes. Earlier references may not have a preserved copy. A missing page does not justify inventing an access date or republishing its contents without permission.
Found something wrong?
Corrections are the most useful mail we get. If a date, a figure or a source looks off, write — with the chapter and the timestamp, if you have them.
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