The Source Library
Sources & attributions
A documentary is a claim about the world, so we publish our evidence. Before a single line is narrated, every Lumiversed episode passes an adversarial fact-check — every contestable date, number, name, attribution, and superlative verified against two or more reputable sources. Each episode's complete source list and asset attributions live on the pages below, added as episodes premiere.
Lane Four · World Nations
In 1776, There Was No Such Thing as an American
How thirteen colonies became one nation. Two gates, 30 claims verified, and the three the fact-check forced us to change — published in full, including where the gates disagreed. 41 archival works with provenance.
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Lane One · Civilization & Objects
The Map That Named America
The 1507 Waldseemüller map — how a small-town printing shop named two continents by mistake, and how the only surviving copy was found. Library of Congress gold source; 16 archival assets with full provenance.
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Lane Three · Space & Aliens
The Record We Sent to the Stars
The Voyager Golden Record — the gold-plated message humanity launched in 1977, still receding from us today. NASA/JPL gold sources; live 2026 spacecraft status verified before narration.
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New episodes publish across five documentary lanes — Civilization & Objects, Pre-Historic Humans, Space & Aliens, World Nations, and Business & Economics — and each adds its page here at premiere.
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