About Nimzo

Every case has a story.

Nimzo Stories tells true crime, unsolved cases and historical mysteries as one-minute cinematic shorts, then opens a full case file for anyone who wants to go deeper.

How a case is built Play: real or recreation?

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What we stand for

Three rules

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Our approach

A question first. Then the evidence.

Each case starts with a question the evidence can actually support: Who was she? Did they make it? What was it for?

We read primary records, archives, official histories and credible reporting, and note the dates, people, places, evidence and disputed claims. The short tells the story in six scenes. The case file keeps what the short has to leave out.

Real people are at the centre of these stories, and many of them have living relatives. We separate what is documented from what is suspected, attribute allegations to the people who made them, and don't invent details to make a case more dramatic.

Research process

How a case is built

Six steps from first question to published file. Scroll through them.

Choose a case with credible sources
A clear question, records we can cite, and six moments strong enough to film.
Build the record
Dates, people, places, evidence, disputed claims and open questions, from primary and reputable sources.
Write six beats
Each scene reveals something or changes what the viewer understands. If a scene doesn't move the story, it goes.
Recreate the scenes
AI-generated historical recreations inside the Nimzo frame, checked for continuity, hands, props and plausibility.
Check before release
Narration, captions, dates and names are checked against the sources, and every recreation is labelled.
Publish the file
The short goes out with its full case file, and the file is updated when credible new information appears.

AI recreation disclosure

Real or recreation?

We use AI to recreate scenes no camera saw, and we always label them. See if you can tell which images are original documents.

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Original document

Original: a herbal page from Beinecke MS 408, Yale University.

AI historical recreation

AI recreation made for Case 009. The hands, the desk and the book are generated.

Original document

Original: a cosmological diagram from the Voynich Manuscript.

AI historical recreation

AI recreation made for Case 005. No photographs exist of that moment.

Original document

Original: a pharmaceutical page from Beinecke MS 408.

AI historical recreation

AI recreation made for Case 008, based on the FBI's description of the vents.

The scenes in our shorts and on these pages are AI historical recreations. They use generic actors, settings and props to show how events may have looked. They are not photographs, they do not show the real people's faces, and they should not be treated as evidence. Every recreation is labelled "AI historical recreation". Original material is labelled and credited.

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