Snoozedrome
Calm, immersive documentaries for curious minds and tired eyes.
History's best stories are over before the opening credits would finish. We put those in an email.
The war that ended before breakfast.
On the morning of August 27, 1896, the British Empire went to war with Zanzibar. By the time anyone in London sat down to breakfast, it was over. Roughly forty minutes, start to finish. Nobody is entirely sure of the exact figure, because it ended faster than anyone thought to time it.
Our documentaries run two hours. That war would not fill the opening credits.
That is the trouble with history's best stories. Most of them are too short, too strange, or too thinly sourced to ever become a film. So we started a newsletter for them instead.
What the Night Shift hears first
The next documentary
Every film starts as a shortlist. Members see it and vote before the research starts. The channel finds out later.
The cutting room floor
Every documentary leaves good material behind. The detail that would not fit, the claim we could not verify, the tangent that nearly derailed the edit. It lands here.
How the films get made
Which archive a story surfaced from, which source fell apart under checking, and what nearly made the cut. The parts a finished documentary never shows.
You are not supposed to hear every ending.
Snoozedrome documentaries are made to be good enough to listen to and calm enough to fall asleep to.
If you make it to the end, excellent.
If you wake up three dynasties later with absolutely no idea what happened, we will count that as a success too.
What would you like to fall asleep learning about?
Somewhere in the archive is the story you will fall asleep to next month. Tell us where to point the magnifying glass.