The Garden We Chose

Historical sources you can examine

Open the original records behind the film. Proposals, enacted laws, attributed findings and fictional events are distinguished in the source notes.

• Hillary Clinton: service before office
  Legal services, education and public roles; agency historical biography.
• Hillary Clinton: congressional biography
  Career chronology; not proof that every policy was successful.
• Health Care Task Force records
  1993 appointment and surviving records of the unsuccessful reform effort.
• Insure Kids Now, February 23, 1999
  Contemporary administration announcement documenting shared outreach roles; distinguish advocacy from sole legislative authorship.
• Children’s Health First Act, S.895 (2007)
  Introduced by Clinton and referred to Finance; not presented as enacted law.
• Paycheck Fairness Act, S.841 (2005)
  Proposal sponsored by Clinton; no claim that this bill became law.
• Military caregiver leave: congressional debate
  August 2, 2007 debate, especially printed pages S10731 onward.
• Military leave law and regulations
  2008 law provides eligible military caregivers up to 26 workweeks; leave is unpaid.
• Clinton’s Iraq authorization vote
  October 11, 2002, vote 237, Clinton voted Yea.
• FBI statement, July 5, 2016
  Retains both criticism of handling and recommendation against charges.
• Malign Creativity, January 2021
  Defined sample: 13 women, six platforms, two-month period; does not establish election outcome effects.
• 2005 Access Hollywood recording: published transcript
  Transcript published October 8, 2016. Narration summarizes without replaying explicit words.
• Trump’s October 7, 2016 response
  Archived primary statement: apology and characterization of the remarks.
• Carroll v. Trump, December 30, 2024
  Appeal affirming civil judgment; distinguish civil liability from criminal conviction; Trump denied wrongdoing.
• January 6 Committee final report
  Committee conclusions are attributed, not presented as an unexplained omniscient judgment.
• Hillary Clinton White House photograph gallery
  Official White House photographs; captions retain the specific dates/events and credited photographers.
• Hillary Clinton health-care PSA, March 17, 1993
  White House Television public record, NARA identifier 6116583, MT00312. Courtesy: William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Original public-domain video excerpt used under narration, not synthetic Clinton speech.
• Trump and Pence official portraits, 2017
  Official White House release; cropped portrait of Trump is identified as such.
• NOAA bleached coral footage
  Leone, American Samoa, November 2009; public-domain B-roll, credit NOAA Fisheries. Bleaching does not necessarily mean death.
• NOAA reef B-roll
  Use Flower Garden Banks section only with that location caption; public-domain package.
• NOAA Elwha restoration B-roll
  Historical method example; not the fictional recovery river.
• Voting information
  Official voting requirements and deadlines; general nonpartisan invitation to eligible viewers.
• Real-world data-centre attacks: research appendix only
  March 2026 company statement on conflict damage. This is outside the film’s November 2025 historical cutoff. It is not evidence that damaged facilities hosted destructive military AIs.

Additional historical and policy records

• Nineteenth Amendment
• Voting Rights Act
• George H. W. Bush ADA statement, July 26, 1990
• Gulf War
• budget surplus announcement, September 27, 2000
• U.S. Senate impeachment records
• PEPFAR reports archive
• Phase II report release, June 5, 2008
• 2016 health insurance report
• civilian-casualty policy and reporting, July 1, 2016
• First Step Act implementation
• family-separation review OIG-18-84
• Public Law 117-58
• Why the Afghan Government Collapsed, 23-05-IP
• Senate's vice-president service table
• Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990
• Family and Medical Leave Act, 1993
• PEPFAR authorization, 2003
• Affordable Care Act, 2010
• First Step Act, 2018

The story’s fragmented 2025–2033 archive, later recovery and colony ships are imagined. The 2026 company statement above is supplementary real-world research, outside the film’s November 2025 historical boundary.