Mars One. The Mars Rover. Bruno Mars. Mars Bars. It's pretty clear we're OBSESSED with the idea of Mars, especially in regard to it being a potential colony for earthlings. But is that really the best option? Is there a better place for...

Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, recognizing a lifetime of influential literary works, Ray Bradbury wrote from a desire to “live forever”. Through sci fi, fantasy, horror and mystery to themes of death, loneliness and the dark...

Imagine living in a world where simply reading a good book could get you killed!

This lesson explores the theme of Literature and Writing in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Watch how Guy Montag’s awakening to the joy of...

Coinciding with the Machine Age, the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Literature saw American authors combine factual science with fantastical fiction to take readers into the farthest reaches of the imagination.

Enter a world of television screens, robotic dogs and burning books! Join us for an amazing animated journey into the scary futuristic society of Fahrenheit 451.

Freedom of thought is censored and all books are destroyed in the...

Guy has just completed his final job and the time has come to be brave. After an epic battle with his boss, Guy knows he must escape this crazy city. But will the police, media and Mechanical Hounds let him? And even if he makes it, how...

Guy Montag is beginning to see that escape is the only answer to a society that has banned thinking! While his wife lives to watch television, Guy finds a fellow book-lover and learns what lies beyond his media-mad world. When he’s...

Guy Montag is a fireman with a mission: to burn all books. But one day he starts to wonder: what’s inside all these books? His wife is too busy watching television to care. Guy begins to sense that all is not well in his media-obsessed...

Don’t speak your mind! Don’t write about the truth!

That’s what it’s like in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The mass media is a joke and independent thought is dangerous. As for books, they’re burned… sometimes with their owners!...

Correction: At 1:49, we accidentally said that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1918, when it was published in 1818. We regret the error -- thanks to Stephen Pershing for catching this! Stories, tales, and myths from all...

Join us for an overview of Ray Bradbury’s world. We’ll show you how key issues and events in the real world shaped his ideas in Fahrenheit 451. Find out how the novel critiques key moments in history, including McCarthyism, 1950s...