Few remember that the origins of our modern American surveillance state were forged over 115 years ago, half a world away in the Philippine Islands.

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Credits

Director and Producer Ariane Wu

Narrator Hilary Hess

Motion Graphics Artist Richard Levien

Sound Mixer Christopher Galipo

Music courtesy of Audio Network “Queensland Drover” by Mark Johns “Parade” by Chris Blackwell “Squirrel Picnic” by David O’Brien “Snare Drum March” by Patrick Hawes “Battle Call” by Patrick Hawes “Neutrinos” by Paul Mottram “Towers of Glass” by Matt Hill “Devious Thoughts” by Paul Mottram

Additional music “Action Man” by Terry Keating and Warren Slye

PostScript theme music Jason Kick

Executive Producer Amanda Pike

Editorial Directors Robert Salladay Amy Pyle

Images and footage courtesy of VideoBlocks Electronic Frontier Foundation Shutterstock Beachfront B-Roll Peter Menchini Democracy Now “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” Fox News Yale University Art Gallery Library of Congress National Archives and Records Administration AT&T University of California Libraries Internet Archive University of Michigan U.S. Army 911archive C-SPAN 2 Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian U.S. Air Force IBM Archives

Special thanks to Ali Winston Yasha Levine Fernando Diaz