A young Al-Khwarizmi journeys from Central Asia to 9th-century Baghdad, where he revolutionises mathematics inside the House of Wisdom. His breakthrough discovery of the algorithm changes history and lays the hidden foundation of our modern world.
Al-Khwarizmi: Father of Algebra & the Algorithm is an AI-animated historical docudrama about the origin story of the digital age. It follows Al-Khwarizmi from Central Asian outsider to the intellectual heart of 9th-century Baghdad, the Silicon Valley of its time. In this high-stakes arena where innovation is currency, he invents the algorithm, the breakthrough that became the source code of the modern world. Historians of Science, Jörg Matthias Determann and Anto Mohsin, provide expert commentary.
The series tells the story of the man behind the algorithm with the generative AI tools his ideas made possible. Its visual style, Poetic Noir Realism, renders 9th-century Baghdad in candlelight and shadow, ink and gold. The series released in 2026 in two formats, both free on YouTube: 30 vertical episodes of 90 seconds each, and a 45-minute cinematic edition in widescreen HD.
The series tells the story of the man behind the algorithm with the generative AI tools his ideas made possible. Its visual style, Poetic Noir Realism, renders 9th-century Baghdad in candlelight and shadow, ink and gold. The series released in 2026 in two formats, both free on YouTube: 30 vertical episodes of 90 seconds each, and a 45-minute cinematic edition in widescreen HD.
