NEON: The Real History Behind Popular Culture
By Laluma
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Episodes: 52
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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successful video games – Assassins Creed, God of War, and Fortnite – are steeped in history.NEON has already uncovered historical references in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Black Panther, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Greatest Showman and the musical, Hamilton.Presented by Jem DuducuProduced by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
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#49 - Avengers: Endgame (2019) & Contagion (2011)
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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#48 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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#47 - Saving Private Ryan
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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#46 - NEON at the Movies: 300 with Tom Holland
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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#45 - Castlevania: How a video game was inspired by 15th century Ottoman history
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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#17 - Love Island: A genius show that combines our need for a companion with a much darker side of humanity
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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#44 - Braveheart: Is it history or is it legend? (Part 2)
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May 24, 2019 |
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#43 - Braveheart: Is it history or is it legend? (Part 1)
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May 22, 2019 |
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#42 - Devil's Advocate & Lucifer: What are the origins of evil? Is there an underlying meaning to the names we give to it? (Part 2)
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May 19, 2019 |
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#41 - Devil's Advocate & Lucifer: What are the origins of evil? Is there an underlying meaning to the names we give to it? (Part 1)
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May 17, 2019 |
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#40 - American Gods: Ancient Slavic Curses, Hinduism, and Vikings (Part 2)
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May 15, 2019 |
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#39 - American Gods: Ancient Slavic Curses, Hinduism, and Vikings (Part 1)
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May 13, 2019 |
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#38 - Game of Thrones: Examples From History That Jon Snow Could Learn From (Part 2)
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May 10, 2019 |
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#37 - Game of Thrones: Examples From History That Jon Snow Could Learn From (Part 1)
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May 08, 2019 |
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#36 - Avengers Endgame: How You Think About Thor Every Week
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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#35 - Bonnie & Clyde: How pop culture distorts history and lasts longer than the events they describe
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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#34 - The Movie Poster: One man’s remarkable career and when posters were used in history
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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#33 - Alien: The dawn of cinema, real parasites that will give you nightmares, and Nazi uniforms
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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#32 - Echoes: The history of writing and printing starting in Egypt and ending with Jem’s new book
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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#31 - They Shall Not Grow Old: A revolutionary documentary
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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#30 - Marvel vs DC: The origin of the species, Lee & Kirby, and how neo-nazis invent toys
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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#29 - Oscars Special: The history of colour, Britain’s greatest general and code breaking
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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#28 - Wolf of Wall Street: Debunking all the myths you know about sales
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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#27 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: British censorship laws and the West’s fear of martial art’s weapons
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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#26 - Red Dead Redemption 2: A careful reconstruction of the American frontier and a new way to tell an epic story
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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#25 - Minisode
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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#24 - 2001: A Space Odyssey: A study of hominid behaviour and making film history in the process
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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#23 - AKIRA: Taking us from Battle of the Planets to the Pacific campaign of WW2
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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#22 - The A-Team: How America treats its war veterans
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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#21 - The A-Team: How America treats its war veterans
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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#20 - Assassin’s Creed: What exactly is an assassin and what have the crusades got to do with the Mongol hordes?
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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#19 - The Handmaid’s Tale & The Running Man: Unlikely bedfellows that highlight dystopias and the Ottoman Harem
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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#18 - The World Cup: A demonstration of soft power and diplomacy through sport through the ages
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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#17 - Love Island: A genius show that combines our need for a companion with a much darker side of humanity
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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#16 - Battlefield 1: Exploring the less well known campaigns of the Great War
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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#15 - Westworld: Historical detail of the Wild West brought to life by future technology
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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#14 - Vikings: How historical drama can end up being less accurate than fantasy
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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#13 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Combining Steam Punk, Jack the Ripper and Victorian engineering
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May 25, 2018 |
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#12 - The Greatest Showman & Hamilton the Musical: 2 historical musicals with 2 very different approaches to history
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May 18, 2018 |
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#11 - Hip Hop & History: How NWA and Public Enemy carry on the spirit of Chaucer and Dickens
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May 14, 2018 |
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#10 - Predator: An analogy for Vietnam and the Spanish American War
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May 11, 2018 |
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#9 - Minisode: Far Cry 5
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May 08, 2018 |
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#8 - Star Wars: Combining Nazi propaganda and Samurai to make film history
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May 04, 2018 |
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#7 - God of War: How a cutting edge video game brings to life ancient European culture
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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#6 - Game of Thrones: What fantasy fiction can teach us about real power struggles in medieval Europe
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Minisode: Ready Player One
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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#5 - Troy Fall of a City: How the oldest story in Europe has become the mother of history and fiction in the west
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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#4 - Raiders of the Lost Ark: Revealing secrets of the Luftwaffe, the Bible and U-Boats
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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#3 - Kingdom Come Deliverance: What a simulation can tell us about the medieval world
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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#2 - Star Wars - The Last Jedi: What Snoke could have learned from other historical imperial body guards
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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#1 - Black Panther: How a Marvel movie is influenced by the richest man in history and an Egyptian god
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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#0 - NEON: The Real History Behind Popular Culture - Trailer
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Mar 05, 2018 |