NEON is a different way of sharing historical knowledge. NEON takes a pop culture phenomenon and turns it on its head by revealing lesser known facts, real-life events and history behind your favourite Netflix shows, movies or video games.From how the A-Team took inspiration from Vietnamese history and resistance leaders, to the Aryan purity and Harem breeding programs behind the Handmaid’s Tale. Even some of the most successful video games – Assassins Creed, God of War, and Fortnite – are steeped in history.NEON has already uncovered historical references in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Black Panther, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Greatest Showman and the musical, Hamilton.Presented by Jem DuducuProduced by Dan Morelle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#48 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
#47 - Saving Private Ryan
#46 - NEON at the Movies: 300 with Tom Holland
#44 - Braveheart: Is it history or is it legend? (Part 2)
#43 - Braveheart: Is it history or is it legend? (Part 1)
#36 - Avengers Endgame: How You Think About Thor Every Week
#35 - Bonnie & Clyde: How pop culture distorts history and lasts longer than the events they describe
#33 - Alien: The dawn of cinema, real parasites that will give you nightmares, and Nazi uniforms
#31 - They Shall Not Grow Old: A revolutionary documentary
#28 - Wolf of Wall Street: Debunking all the myths you know about sales
#27 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: British censorship laws and the West’s fear of martial art’s weapons
#24 - 2001: A Space Odyssey: A study of hominid behaviour and making film history in the process
#23 - AKIRA: Taking us from Battle of the Planets to the Pacific campaign of WW2
#22 - The A-Team: How America treats its war veterans
#21 - The A-Team: How America treats its war veterans
#20 - Assassin’s Creed: What exactly is an assassin and what have the crusades got to do with the Mongol hordes?
#13 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Combining Steam Punk, Jack the Ripper and Victorian engineering
#8 - Star Wars: Combining Nazi propaganda and Samurai to make film history
Minisode: Ready Player One
#4 - Raiders of the Lost Ark: Revealing secrets of the Luftwaffe, the Bible and U-Boats
#2 - Star Wars - The Last Jedi: What Snoke could have learned from other historical imperial body guards
#1 - Black Panther: How a Marvel movie is influenced by the richest man in history and an Egyptian god
