7-day free trial → After the trial, membership renews automatically at the amount shown below ($9.99/mo or $99/yr for Member; $14.99/mo or $149/yr for Archivist) until cancelled. Auto-renews until cancelled; cancel before day 7 to avoid charges.
7-day free trial → After the trial, membership renews automatically at the amount shown below ($9.99/mo or $99/yr for Member; $14.99/mo or $149/yr for Archivist) until cancelled. Auto-renews until cancelled; cancel before day 7 to avoid charges.
Six free preview picks are open below. The remaining 24 shorts and the full archive are unlocked for members. Today's box resets in 12:51:08.
Request a stacks pass to open the other 24 — and all 1,860 accessioned shorts in the box.
Three steps, every morning, by hand — no recommendation engine in the loop.
History shouldn't be an infinite scroll. Every morning we open the box, watch, and rank exactly thirty shorts — so you can learn something real and still get on with your day.
One ranked box of thirty restored shorts a day, resetting at midnight. No autoplay, no rabbit hole — a finishable habit instead of a feed that never lets go.
Founder Freya Danbury and a small Tallinn team watch and rank every short by hand. No recommendation engine guessing what keeps you hooked — just people who care about history.
Each piece is genuinely restored footage, oral history, or an archival essay — with provenance noted. We never dress up recycled clips as discoveries.
Seven-day free trial, the renewal price shown plainly before you commit, and a clear money-back path. No long-term contract, no dark patterns.
A fresh ranked box of thirty restored shorts every day, published at midnight your time. Never an endless scroll.
Trial length, renewal price, and cancellation are stated plainly before you pay. No dark patterns, no hidden tiers.
Restoration and provenance are credited and honestly labelled. We name the people who recovered each piece.
One pick to finish, then you close the tab. The product is designed to end, not to keep you watching.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you're never charged.
“I started Videobox because the best history online was buried under hours of autoplay and clickbait. A ten-minute restored newsreel from 1911, a forgotten interview, a piece of street film nobody has watched in decades — these deserve to be found, not lost in a feed designed to keep you scrolling. So every morning my small team and I open the box, watch, and rank exactly thirty shorts. One pick sits at the top until midnight. You come, you watch something real, you leave knowing more than when you arrived. That is the whole promise. No algorithm guessing what keeps you hooked — just curators who care, and history worth your coffee break.”
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