--- description: As 2021 comes to a close, TIME looks back at some of the history-making moments we documented on video title: Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab72304d5a0944bd/698a1b2786f68e31966f0223/tommy-dorfman-evolution-of-coming-out-4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021 by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2021 5:00 PM CUT  Tommy Dorfman Tommy DorfmanGizelle Hernandez for TIME by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2021 5:00 PM CUT As 2021 comes to a close, TIME looks back at some of the history-making moments we documented on film. Here is a selection of some of our favorite video stories about people who changed our present, for us or for themselves; innovations that are shaping our future; and a past that we’re only just beginning to grapple with. ## _Amanda Gorman: ‘The Hill We Climb’_ Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in the U.S., recently [spoke to TIME](https://time.com/6125483/amanda-gorman-call-us-what-we-carry-interview/ "undefined") about her writing process, attending President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Inauguration, and the most valuable lesson she’s learned from her unprecedented year. In this video, she reads the poem that made her a household name. --- ## _Reintroducing Tommy Dorfman_ “I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically,” [actor Tommy Dorfman told writer Torrey Peters when they spoke for a TIME interview](https://time.com/6081874/tommy-dorfman-interview/ "undefined"). “Coming out is always viewed as this grand reveal, but I was never not out. Today is about clarity: I am a trans woman.” Here, Dorfman discusses her take on how to live authentically in the public eye. --- ## _Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon: Here’s How the Inspiration4 Crew Will Fly to Space_ The Inspiration4 mission [marked](https://time.com/magazine/us/6089812/august-23rd-2021-vol-198-no-7-u-s/ "undefined") the first time an all-civilian, non-governmental crew took to orbit. TIME Studios produced the Netflix documentary series [_Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space_](https://time.com/5938500/time-studios-exclusive-documentary-inspiration4-civilian-mission-space/ "undefined"), a look inside this unprecedented journey. --- ## _The History You Didn’t Learn: Black Wall Streets_ It has been 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, when an angry white mob destroyed a prosperous black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. And Tulsa’s story is just one part of a larger history of Black Wall Streets that existed in many American cities. In [this short documentary](https://time.com/6050811/tulsa-black-wall-street/ "undefined"), TIME’s Arpita Aneja and Olivia Waxman explore the history of Jackson Ward in Richmond, Va., which is considered the first “Black Wall Street” to emerge around the turn of the 20th century. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6130307/historic-moments-2021/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6130307/historic-moments-2021/"},"headline":"Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021","datePublished":"2021-12-30T17:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T10:39:51.149Z","description":"From innovations that are shaping our future to a past that we're only just beginning to grapple with","url":"https://time.com/6130307/historic-moments-2021/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab72304d5a0944bd/698a1b2786f68e31966f0223/tommy-dorfman-evolution-of-coming-out-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab72304d5a0944bd/698a1b2786f68e31966f0223/tommy-dorfman-evolution-of-coming-out-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tommy-dorfman-evolution-of-coming-out-4","caption":"Tommy Dorfman","creditText":"Gizelle Hernandez for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6130307/historic-moments-2021/","name":"Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Amanda Gorman: 'The Hill We Climb'","description":"Amanda Gorman recites 'The Hill We Climb'. 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