Bas Jan Ader: The Artist Who Sailed Into the Atlantic and Vanished
A Dutch artist sets out to make a three-part masterpiece. Part one is a lonely nighttime search by flashlight. Part two is crossing the entire Atlantic in a 13-foot boat. Part three never happened, be...
30 Jun 21min
Bass Reeves: Born a Slave, Became the Greatest Lawman of the West
Born into slavery in 1838, he would later wear a silver star and hunt outlaws across 75,000 square miles, racking up over 3,000 arrests and surviving 32 years of shootouts without a single wound. He e...
30 Jun 17min
Bible John: The Glasgow Serial Killer Who Was Never Caught
In the crowded, smoke-filled Barrowland Ballroom of 1960s Glasgow, a polite, well-dressed man quoted scripture about adulterous women being stoned to death. Hours later, his dance partner was dead. He...
30 Jun 21min
The Whaleship Essex: How Fear of Cannibals Doomed Its Crew
Shipwrecked thousands of miles from land in the middle of the Pacific, the survivors of the whaleship Essex faced a choice of which way to row. Out of a baseless fear of cannibals, they chose the long...
30 Jun 23min
Dazzle Camouflage: Why Hiding Ships Meant Painting Them Loud
In the U-boat-infested waters of 1917, the obvious way to protect a ship was to make it blend in. Instead, navies painted their vessels in screaming, chaotic geometric patterns, turning warships into ...
30 Jun 22min
Bouvet Island: The Most Remote Place on Earth and Its Mysteries
A tiny, ice-covered volcano stranded in the absolute middle of nowhere, Bouvet Island is the most remote island on Earth. Yet this useless rock has hosted phantom islands, an abandoned lifeboat with n...
30 Jun 23min
Pitcairn Island: The Mutineers' Paradise With a Dark Secret
Founded by the most famous naval mutineers in history, the smallest democracy on Earth sounds like a romantic off-the-grid paradise. But this remote Pacific volcanic rock became a soundproof incubator...
30 Jun 21min
Bowerbirds: The Bird Architects Who Build Art to Find Love
What if a wild bird understood color theory, optical illusions, and interior design better than most humans? Meet the astonishing bowerbird, an animal that builds elaborate, obsessively decorated stru...
30 Jun 20min
