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Though it did poorly at the box office, Peter Berg's The Kingdom boasted an ambitious opening credit sequence that condensed Saudi Arabian history into roughly 200 seconds with bold graphics and video clips.

Maya whiz Nobuo Takahashi did something similar in 2006 with "Musashino Plateau" and "Japan," illustrating that country's postwar housing bubble through architectural animations. Buildings unfurl, stack and wriggle into ever-greater heights in what looks like an architect's dream--and a contractor's nightmare.

via pink tentacle