A History of the World According to Getty Images

A History of the World According to Getty Images

6.5

May 01 2022

0h 19m

Documentary

How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do with free access or public availability—that uses powerhouse commercial archive Getty Images as its example. If the world's visual history remains locked behind a paywall, who will ever see it?

Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Self (Archive Footage)

Edgar D. Mitchell

Edgar D. Mitchell

Self (Archive Footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (Archive Footage)

Wang Weilin

Wang Weilin

Self (Archive Footage)