The archive as data.

Narrative is a public good, and so is the record of what people said. Everything the site knows about its own videos is here to take: the record of every published piece, the contributors, and every transcript with the corrections applied, so the text matches the pages.

Download the archive (zip, 301 KB). Rebuilt on every deploy. Inside: videos.json, people.json, transcripts/<id>.txt, and a README with the schema, the corrections policy and the licence.

The two record files are also served on their own: videos.json and people.json. The search page runs on search-index.json, every transcript paragraph with its timestamp, if you would rather have that shape.

What this is not. A court record. Auto-captions drop words and the timestamps are paragraph-level. For anything that matters, find the moment and watch it; every transcript paragraph on the site links to its second on YouTube.

The corrections policy, in one line: names and terms are corrected, speech is not. The ums stay, the false starts stay, and what a person actually said stays even when it is wrong. Where YouTube masked a word in its own captions it shows as [bleeped]; that is YouTube’s, not ours. The full policy is in the README and in docs/transcripts.md in the repository.

Licence. The text data is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Use it, quote it, build on it, and credit We Them Media with a link. The videos themselves remain on YouTube under YouTube’s terms. The people in the interviews said these things on camera in public; treat them as people.