A History of the World According to Getty Images

19m
Documentary
6.5

How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do with free access or public availability—that uses powerhouse commercial archive Getty Images as its example. If the world's visual history remains locked behind a paywall, who will ever see it?

Cast

Miles Davis
Self (Archive Footage)
Edgar D. Mitchell
Self (Archive Footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (Archive Footage)
Wang Weilin
Self (Archive Footage)

Crew

Richard Misek
Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography
Thorvald Nilsen
Producer

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