A watch commissioned for Marie Antoinette took 44 years to complete. Long after the queen’s death, it ended up in a Jerusalem museum—until it disappeared in a robbery.

I made this short video tracing the watch’s journey, the museum theft, and the unexpected turns that followed. It’s a story where royal history, watchmaking and a criminal investigation all collide.

https://youtu.be/IZOLB5vJnt8

Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the Nobel Peace Prize

Political assassinations rarely achieve their perpetrators' goals. Brutus tried to save the Roman Republic and ended up creating an Empire; Princip sought Slavic freedom and triggered the fall of four global empires and 80+ million casualties.

A cinematic breakdown analyzing five pivotal assassinations (Caesar, Franz Ferdinand, Alexander II, Gandhi, and Uthman ibn Affan) and how their unintended consequences shaped modernity (Full English Audio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW39HSbHB1E

Terrible history.

Hannibal crossed the frozen Alps and humiliated Rome at Cannae, yet after 15 undefeated years campaigning across Italy, Carthage was lost.

A short cinematic breakdown of his tactical genius and the political betrayal that sealed his fate (Full English Audio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D0QQxCVB_g

On October 9, 1806, America lost a hidden genius — Benjamin Banneker, the self‑taught astronomer who helped map Washington D.C. and published his own almanacs. His story still shines among the stars.