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Produced by MIT Video Productions, Office of Digital Learning

With the move to Cambridge and the construction of the Main Group, MIT set out to create a building and an institution like no other. In doing so, the Institute tranformed the City of Cambridge over the last century. Hear stories from MIT’s century in Cambridge—including visions for the next 100 years—through a series of documentaries and video vignettes available through the menu on the right.

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MIT2016 Documentary Series: A Bold Move
Winner of a 2017 Boston/New England Emmy® Award in the education/schools category

 

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The inside story of MIT’s move from Boston to Cambridge - from the design and construction of an innovative new campus to the exuberant opening celebration in 1916.

Particularly MIT: A Sequence of Vignettes

Produced by MIT Video Productions, Office of Digital Learning

Each week throughout the Century in Cambridge Celebration (February 29–June 4) added to a sequence of video vignettes. From MIT’s public art to campus myths to the iconic Killian Court, these short videos explore a range of topics related to the Institute and its history in Cambridge.

Mythdusters vignette
Mythdusters

A playful look at three long-held stories about the MIT campus and environs—separating fact from fiction.

Secrets of the Dome
The Secrets of the Dome

This will change the way you see the campus forever. Why the dome's pillars don't line up, and the secret circle that extends all the way to Mass. Ave.

Public Art at MIT
Public Art

An early vision for the role of public art as seen realized on MIT’s campus today.

Project Interphase
Project Interphase

In 2014, Project Interphase celebrated its 45th Anniversary of introducing scholars to the MIT experience and imparting pivotal concepts to increase long-term academic success. This video describes the genesis of this program, now known as Interphase EDGE.

Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush

The astonishing career of Vannevar Bush, who played a part in the dawn of the radio age, the atomic age, and the digital age.

Z-Center pool
Mind and Body: The Z Center

Experience MIT's game-changing Z Center and its powerful impact on the MIT community.

Film video
MIT's Film/Video Section

Recollections of MIT’s unique program for innovative documentary filmmaking and its far-reaching impact.

Aero Astro video
Aero Astro Pioneers

The pioneering women of AeroAstro, from 1932 to today.

MIT on the Air
MIT on the Air

From its modest start in a dormitory, a history of campus radio station WMBR.

Food Science video
Food Science

From the perfect cup of coffee to edibles that astronauts could take into space—a video history of MIT’s scientists' cutting edge of research and innovation in food technology

Karl Taylor Compton
Karl Taylor Compton

Karl Taylor Compton, MIT’s President from 1930 to 1948, modernized the Institute and served as a public champion of science and technology.
“No man in academic life was more loved.”

TV at MIT
TV at MIT

A bit of broadcasting history reveals the connections between MIT and public television station WGBH.

The Techtonians
50 Years of Jazz

In 1963, big band leader Herb Pomeroy founded the Festival Jazz Ensemble at MIT. This signaled the start of an illustrious program on campus that invited the Jazz Greats to play alongside MIT students.

Great Dome at night
Barker Library Renovation

When you think of MIT, you think of the Great Dome. The oculus was obscured with black paint during World War II to prevent it from becoming a target. The result was an interior space with no natural light. Finally, after 70 years, the glass block in the oculus has been painstakingly restored, allowing sunlight to illuminate the spectacular architectural details inside the Dome.

National Medals of Science
National Medals of Science

The National Medal of Science is this nation’s highest honor for outstanding achievement and leadership in expanding our understanding of the natural world. Of the 509 medals awarded since 1959, one out of nine recipients have an affiliation with MIT. Ten recipients are currently on the MIT faculty.

Killian video
James Rhyne Killian

A towering figure of 20th-century MIT, Killian Presidency of the Institute from 1948-59 only tells part of the story.

Dean Melissa Nobles
Essential SHASS

MIT's award-winning School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, an essential part of the MIT experience, prepares students to take on complex challenges.

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Documentaries

Hear stories from MIT’s century in Cambridge, including visions for the next 100 years, through this series of four documentaries.

A Bold Move
A Bold Move

The inside story of MIT’s move from Boston to Cambridge - from the design and construction of an innovative new campus to the exuberant opening celebration in 1916.

Documentary: Function Follows Form
Function Follows Form

Explore how the design of MIT’s buildings and campus helped forge a unique ecosystem for innovation over the past century.

Aerial view of MIT
Good Neighbors

Stories of MIT and Cambridge working together to achieve common goals.

Illustration of MIT in the future
The Next 100 Years

Explore MIT's bold initiatives for the 21st century and beyond.

  • The Campus & Cambridge
    • An Evolving Frontier
    • Timeline
    • MIT Infinite History
    • Voices of Cambridge
    • Imagining New Technology: A celebration exhibition at the MIT Museum
    • The Great Stride: MIT Moves to Cambridge exhibit
    • Celebrating a century of employees in Cambridge
    • A Campus Built for Innovation exhibit
  • Events
    • Reception: Imagining New Technology at the MIT Museum
    • Symposia
    • Celebration Concert
    • Small Infinities, a play by Professor Alan Brody
    • MIT Day of Service
    • Open House
    • Moving Day at MIT
    • Toast to Tech
  • Together in Service
  • News
  • Video
    • Century in Cambridge Documentaries
    • Particularly MIT: A Sequence of Vignettes
  • About MIT 2016
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contact
    • Privacy Statement
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