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🎬 NEW VIDEO IS LIVE!

The Entire History of St. Augustine, America’s Oldest City, in 13 Minutes.

One fixed camera on one bayfront road, from the Ice Age to today: forts, fires, flags, bridges and the people who lived through it all. Watch the town grow in front of the lens.

Which era surprised you most? Tell us below 👇

#StAugustine #Timelapse #AmericanHistory #FloridaHistory

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Everyone talks about 1776. Almost nobody talks about 1565. ⏳ You’re looking at the shoreline of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States—42 years before Jamestown, and over two centuries before the Declaration of Independence. From a wooden Spanish watchtower to a seashell star-fortress, to Gilded Age winter palaces... can you guess which city this shoreline becomes? Drop your guess in the comments before the full 460-year timelapse goes live! 👇

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Most Americans get this wrong on the first try. 👀 Long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock (1620) or the British settled Jamestown (1607)... a thriving coastal city already existed in what is now the United States. It survived pirate raids, cannon sieges, and 460+ years of hurricanes—and people still walk its original streets today. Without Googling: What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in America? 👇

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**We're Going Back to What Made Restored Timeline Special. ❤️**

After experimenting with 3D timelapse videos, I've decided to take Restored Timeline back to its roots.

I'll be stepping away from 3D timelapses and returning to the **fixed-camera historical timelapse** format that brought so many of us together.

But this isn't simply a return to the past. **It's a new chapter.**

In our upcoming videos, I'm working to make the experience more immersive, more atmospheric, and more alive than ever before.

I don't just want you to watch history unfold. **I want you to feel like you're standing there, witnessing it with your own eyes.**

The streets, the people, the changing world around you — all from one familiar perspective, as centuries pass before your eyes.

That's the experience I want Restored Timeline to deliver.

Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and your incredible support throughout this journey. It truly means a lot.

**New journeys through history are coming. Stay tuned! ❤️**

— Restored Timeline

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Today on Restored Timeline: PHILADELPHIA.

Watch it grow from Lenape forest in 1600 to a city of 1.6 million in 2026, in 12 minutes.

What you'll see:
🌲 The forest and river before the city
📜 Penn's 1682 grid, the Declaration of Independence, the British occupation
🔥 The Great Fire of 1850, the Centennial Exposition, City Hall
🌉 The bridge, I-95, the skyline, the Eagles parade, America 250

Every building is rebuilt in 3D from real map data. No AI-generated imagery.

Premieres today at 8:00 PM EDT.
Which Philadelphia year do you want us to zoom in on next?

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BOSTON, 1610 → 2026 in 3D Timelapse (No AI image) , Watch a city rise from the sea, through the Great Fires, the Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Molasses Flood and the Big Dig. 🎬 Coming soon.

👇 Which city should we rebuild next? Tell us in the comments.

🔔 Subscribe so you don’t miss a city.

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Premieres Oct 15 at 6:30 PM PT / 9:30 PM ET.

Las Vegas | Fixed Camera Timelapse: 12,000 Years in 15 Minutes. One place, one fixed camera, from the Ice Age to 2026. The first two scenes are empty on purpose.

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Your family never moved. But the border did.
If your home becomes part of another country after a war, who should have to prove ownership—you, or the new government challenging your claim?
What would you consider fair? Tell us why in the comments.
Our upcoming documentary on the Mexican-American War explores what happened after the fighting ended—and why winning a war didn’t settle who owned the land.

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Today at 9:30 AM ET: the full story of Hitler's war machine.

A 70-minute documentary goes live at 9:30 AM Eastern / 6:30 AM Pacific (13:30 UTC): how Germany built the Wehrmacht, conquered Europe in 1940, and lost everything by 1945.

You think it was a perfect tank steamroller? Most of the army still marched on foot and pulled its guns with horses, and Germany was short of fuel from day one.

Inside:

Dunkirk and the fall of France
Why Operation Sea Lion never happened
Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Kursk, Normandy, Berlin
The Holocaust inside the war, told with places and documents
Why the machine failed

Archive film, rare photos, animated maps. 51 chapters, so you can jump to any part.

Set a reminder and join me in the first hour. I'll answer every comment.

Which battle should I cover next?
#WW2 #Wehrmacht #HistoryDocumentary

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New release: Evolution of Jerusalem

Our next film follows 15,000 years of history from a single viewpoint at the Damascus Gate. It begins with an empty limestone hillside and ends with the city as it stands today, passing through the Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman and modern eras along the way.

Premieres:
Sunday, October 4 — 9:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM CT / 6:30 PM PT

We hope you will join us for the premiere. As always, comments and corrections on the history are welcome.

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